We have already approved another exciting bill in Catalonia: the Democratic Memory Law, the purpose of which, I deduce, is for students between the ages of 6 and 18 to learn that Franco lost the Civil War by a landslide and ruled for forty years with all God against . He alone!
What have children done to us to inflict a school subject on them about something that interests them what the Punic Wars? Can anyone expect self-criticism, objectivity and intellectual purity from those who –State today, yesterday and tomorrow, State always– insist on imposing a biased conception, which seems to deny the option of thinking on their own?
Among the pearls of the text, there is a commemoration in Catalonia on April 14. Public holiday? Multimedia monograph in classrooms on the wonders of the Second Republic without any criticism of its mistakes?
The law also provides for the disassembly at once of four relics that no one notices, like that monolith in the Ebro as it passes through Tortosa, whose population decided to keep it by referendum in 2016, I imagine that as a reminder of a great tragedy and not of the nobody’s victory And they did it with 68% of the votes in favor and two thirds of participation…
I’m not going to waste a line on what I think of Franco to look good. In a society where there are plenty of polarizations, I am kicked by this erre that erred with the dictator, “memory” and an uncritical exaltation of the Second Republic, a tailored suit to attack the constitutional monarchy.
What a way to kill the will inherent in the transition to leave behind –winners and losers– the most heartbreaking Spanish drama! And I won’t continue because I still have the honor of being the first Catalan to be fined –from 200 to 150,000 euros– for “exaltation of Francoism”.
Unlike Germany or Italy, here the dictator won the war and not alone. That they ask many high-ranking officials of the Generalitat, children and grandchildren of the winners, the reasons. History, alas, is not rewritten. And I prefer historians to those who collect from the State.
Franco was a drama. But like it or not, he died in bed.