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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett ⊖⊖

Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country

At first sight, few suspected that Francisco Franco might b…

Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death ⊖⊖

Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’

Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official eve…

18 days ago

‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right?

Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism

Mingorrubio municipal cemetery, which sits where the suburbs…

31 days ago

Disgraced former king of Spain’s memoir details ‘enormous respect’ for Franco ⊖⊖

The book, published 11 years after Juan Carlos’ abdication, chronicles his anointment as heir to the dictator, as well as the death of his younger brother

A newly published memoir by Spain’s disgraced…

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