Spain condemns Franco's dictatorship

[Felix the Cat]

http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=451309&lng=1

The 40-year dictatorship of Spain's General Franco has been formally condemned by parliament in Madrid. MPs approved a controversial bill, despite opposition arguments that it would tear Spain apart. It means all symbols of the fascist regime from 1936-75 must be removed from public buildings, and obliges local authorities to search for mass graves from the 1930s Civil War. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made the bill a government priority. His own grandfather was executed by Franco's forces. Families of Franco's victims said it was a new start for Spain.

[Niccolo and Donkey]

Thus proving that Franco didn't go far enough in ridding Spain of socialists, Marxists, and anarchists.

[raven]

Well if they are removing symbols from his regime from public property, who cares. Franco was quite ruthless towards his own people (and i'm not referring to socialists, marxists and anarchists here. I couldn't care less about them). Spain might not be in a pretty state right now with the Socialist Party regime ruining things but I wouldn't want to live under someone like Franco either. Iberian Corporatist Fascism did nothing but keep Iberia way behind the rest of Western Europe. Unfortunately they decided to replace coporatism with European-styled Socialism rather than taking a free market approach when the fascist regime fell.

[Felix the Cat]

The Iberians tried free market liberal democracy in the early part of last century, and it didn't work out very well