Word: franco
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Like many towns that fell to the advancing forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the mountain resort village of Cercedilla (current pop. 4,000), 35 miles north of Madrid, suffered its share of Nationalist vengeance. Some Republican sympathizers were imprisoned and a few were shot, while many more fled to exile. One of those never accounted for was Protasio Montalvo, the Socialist mayor of Cercedilla during part of the war. For years villagers wondered whether he had died fighting on some distant front or had been a victim of mass executions after the war or perhaps...
...bright sunlight, his hair snow white and his skin almost alabaster, "El Señor Protasio," now 77 emerged nervously from the home where he had hidden in fear since 1939 Blue eyes shining, he told the improbable story of his self-imposed 38-year imprisonment, which outlasted even Franco's long dictatorship...
Your vicious anti-Franco bias and rank hatred in your story of Spain's "return to democracy" (whatever that is) are what is expected...
King Juan Carlos should be congratulated! He took Spain from the repressive era of Franco and placed the political future of the country in the hands of the Spanish people [June...
Francisco Franco brought decency honor, courage, respect, physical and spiritual health and safety to Spain but you whores prefer the terror of Bolshevism, and you have to spit on any leader or group that effectively stands up against...