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Can anyone explain

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:20am
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What the memory bill is all about and why are some political parties so against it?

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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:46am

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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:46am

There was an story at it in EL Pais yesterday which helps explain to a degree. 

https://english.elpais.com/news/2021-07-22/spain-drafts-more-ambitious-historical-memory-bill-amid-wave-of-revisionism.html

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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:14pm

aitchc1401 wrote on Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:46am:

There was an story at it in EL Pais yesterday which helps explain to a degree. 

https://english.elpais.com/news/2021-07-22/spain-drafts-more-ambitious-historical-memory-bill-amid-wave-of-revisionism.html

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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:58pm

aitchc1401 wrote on Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:46am:

There was an story at it in EL Pais yesterday which helps explain to a degree. 

https://english.elpais.com/news/2021-07-22/spain-drafts-more-ambitious-historical-memory-bill-amid-wave-of-revisionism.html

Aitch.

The link provided is a very comprehensive account of the reasons for the Bill, for anybody not to the right of Genghis Khan. The issue of Franco and his dictatorship needs to be remembered for the atrocities committed by him, my grandfather faught in the spanish civil war with the international brigade to rid spain of fascism, to achieve democracy which spain has all be it tentatively .

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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:59pm

The link provided is a very comprehensive account of the reasons for the Bill, for anybody not to the right of Genghis Khan. The issue of Franco and his dictatorship needs to be remembered for the atrocities committed by him, my grandfather faught in the spanish civil war with the international brigade to rid spain of fascism, to achieve democracy which spain has all be it tentatively .

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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:48pm

Hi Michael,

Although there are many countries that have tried to bury their history in the way that Spain has buried Francoism, I was shocked when my Spanish teacher told me that, even when it was added to the school curriculum, pupils were never taught about Franco - schools always made sure that they ran out of time before the end of term!  

One of the best books I've read on Franco is the biography by a British author, Paul Preston:

https://www.amazon.com/Franco-Biography-Paul-Preston/dp/0465025153?tag=cstareg-20

Kind regards,

Kim

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