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Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.
During the Franco dictatorship, Spanish cinema goers were forced to watch the regime’s propaganda newsreels before every film.
The worst years of the Spanish post-war constituted a veritable famine during which the purchasing power of the population fell drastically and thousands of deaths from starvation were recorded.
Shamefully under-read in English yet a giant of Spanish literature, Nada is unsentimental but deeply human.
Spain has made it a punishable offence to praise the regime of General Franco.
As many as 300,000 babies were taken from their families for political gain.
Devoting all energies to fight over an imaginary border deflects attention from the real issues.
Spain has specific laws on protecting historical memory, and yet some would rather forget about them altogether.
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Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies, Swansea University
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Programa Ramón y Cajal; IP de ERC-CoG DEEPMED, Universidad de Sevilla
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Historiador. Profesor agregado en los Estudios de Artes y Humanidades y director del Máster Universitario de Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Profesora de Historia Contemporánea, Universidad de Granada
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