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Artist's impression of a street battle in Madrid, 1936
PHOTOGRAPHER: PHOTOLIBRARY/MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY
Franco's Spain
Francisco Franco would go on to rule Spain with an iron fist for almost four decades
until his death in 1975. An estimated 100,000 people were killed or died in prison
after the war. The hundreds of thousands imprisoned included many intellectuals
and teachers; others fled abroad, depriving Spain of a generation of scientists,
artists, writers, educators and more. The army provided many government ministers
and enjoyed a most generous budget. Catholic supremacy was fully restored, with
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