Remembering the days of Franco
For years Spain has preferred to forget its decades of dictatorship. No longer
“WE HAVE had so little chance to remember.” Thus a sympathiser of the losing Republican side in Spain's 1936-39 civil war, speaking to your correspondent at a rare ceremony held in 1994 to honour members of the International Brigades, foreigners who came to fight for the republic against the rebels led by Francisco Franco. But the situation he described then is now changing.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Remembering the days of Franco”
From the October 26th 2002 edition
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