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October 24, 2019

Spain Removes Remains of Francisco Franco from National Mausoleum
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In Spain, authorities have exhumed the body of fascist dictator
Francisco Franco from a state-run mausoleum to be reburied in a private
family vault. Franco oversaw a brutal 40-year dictatorship until his
death in 1975. This is Spanish historian and former political prisoner
under Franco's dictatorship, Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz.

Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz: "It was time to move him. We've waited many
decades for [Franco] to disappear from this monument, which in and of
itself was the shame of Spain. All the dictators of Franco's ilk have
vanished from Europe - Hitler, Mussolini - and were not honored with
such tombs. The truth is, the contradiction was obvious between a
democracy and a monument dedicated to the cult of a man who was the
opposite of democratic."



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