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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Graham Keeley

‘Life was better under Franco’: The young Spaniards rewriting the dictator’s legacy

As Spain marks half a century since the death of General Francisco Franco this week, a significant number of young people now view the brutal Spanish dictator in a positive light.

Far from reviling him as the man who plunged the country into a bloody civil war between 1936 and 1939, then followed this with years of repression, young people are trumpeting Franco’s achievements.

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