Spain still struggles.

Still now Spain lives under the shadow of the "great" dictator. There are many city's where monoliths or statues to him still exist. In my town the monolith was taken down only last year. And we were deeply republican, and a marxist stronghold! Three years ago one of the most bombed squares in the city was re-done. 10 years ago they erected a bridge under the name of "Liceu Escolar", the republican school in town which was also bombed. 15 years ago they found a bomb in the castle which never exploded... 35 years ago Franco died.

It isn't that long ago really, we are only a generation away from remembering him alive, and remembering the joys of a failed democracy which we have become. The war was literally fought around the dining room table. Many also have family which they lost not during but after the war, either gone into exile or killed by the dicatator's police.

The other day I saw they are going to make a new show on tv, about the Republic. At last! So much has been kept secret from that time. People who lived under Franco were told that the Republic was destroying the country, its unity. That marxists had taken over and marxists were bad. Now many still believe marxists are bad, simply because that is what their education taught them. This show on the Republic will at least show people how advanced the Republic actually was, bacause it was ahead of its age. Well, we hope. The media is the media and sometimes I doubt we can rely on it.