Quotes About History

in the inland northern half of Spain, there was an ingrained hostility to Republican cultural values.

clear parallel between Francoist judicial practice and that of the Nazis – in that both, unlike the Soviet case, overturned previous liberal jurisprudence/practice.

Soviet Russia was grudgingly admired by the Franco regime.

José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the leader of Spain's fascist party, the Falange,

100,000 members of the Falange were still permitted to carry guns.

requetés (the Carlist militia)

the story of how "Francoism" was built – bottom up as a repressive, carceral society – as well as top down as a political regime.

As early as 1977, the now iconic comic strip Paracuellos appeared. It was provocatively named – for Paracuellos, the village outside Madrid where the Republicans shot over two thousand prisoners during the wartime siege of the capital,12 lay at the heart of regime martyrology.

the attempted military coup of February 1981, the Tejerazo.

memory movement of the 1990s.

historical memory law of 2007

Known collectively as Paracuellos, for the village outside Madrid where the shootings took place, this was the clearest equivalent in the history of the Republic at war to the prison sacas

those who had defended the Republic were court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion", a punishment that would continue after 1939.

the fear-driven social purification underpinning Francoism,

long, slow and painful recuperation of Republican history and memory

the tens of thousands of people killed in the Francoist repression – by the end of the 1940s the figure was at least 150,000

That there were so many Jewish volunteers among the International Brigaders – around a quarter of the total – is unsurprising

The Spanish Civil War was the first fought in Europe in which civilians became targets en masse, through bombing raids on big cities.

The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup.

Notwithstanding the currency of ideas about 'two Spains' ready to confront each other on 18 July 1936, 'us' and 'them' were categories actively made by the violent experience of the war and did not fully exist prior to it.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The people who lived beside the river for thousands of years, and whose history was intertwined with that landscape, have been very effectively excluded from ts recorded narrative.

Each little flower has a history and cultural references, is a superstition or a cure for something.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.