SHOULD FRANCO’S TOMB BE MOVED?
“THOSE WHO CHOSE TO JOIN THE WORK GANGS WERE THE FORTUNATE ONES, BECAUSE IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IN THE ALMOST 20 YEARS IT TOOK TO COMPLETE THE MONUMENT, FROM 1941-1959, UPWARDS OF 30,000 POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE EXECUTED IN SPAIN”
Francisco Franco wasted no time in gloating over his defeat of Spain’s Republican forces in April 1939. One month after proclaiming victory, the pudgy, squeaky-voiced generalissimo spelt out his vision for a gargantuan monument to the “Glorious Crusade”: “This will not be merely another monument… it will have a basilica, a monastery, a barracks. It will contain the power of Spain, the robustness of the land,
