Franco named the former king’s grandson his successor, skipping a generation because he deemed the father too liberal to carry on his vision for Spain.
Honestly, it’s pretty impressive how Spain managed to transition to democracy pretty bloodlessly after hundreds of thousands killed by Franco, and many more atrocities committed by his regime. Of course, this also met that all crimes committed by the regime were swept under the rug. I did a report on Franco in college for a Spanish class, and got pretty angry at how justice was never served for the people tortured and imprisoned by the regime, and for those/the families of those who had been killed. I watched a documentary about that transition to democracy and how Spain grapples with its legacy of Franco (or rather, doesn’t), and one elderly man was talking about how after Spain’s transition to democracy, he lived across the street from the man who tortured him. Justice was never received; none of the people who tortured, executed, and imprisoned people were punished.
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Franco named the former king’s grandson his successor, skipping a generation because he deemed the father too liberal to carry on his vision for Spain.
I wonder how’d he’d feel about the various [corruption scandals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I?wprov=sfti1#Corruption_investigations) Juan Carlos I has been embroiled in
“EVERYBODY FREEZE!”
PSOE’d
Honestly, it’s pretty impressive how Spain managed to transition to democracy pretty bloodlessly after hundreds of thousands killed by Franco, and many more atrocities committed by his regime. Of course, this also met that all crimes committed by the regime were swept under the rug. I did a report on Franco in college for a Spanish class, and got pretty angry at how justice was never served for the people tortured and imprisoned by the regime, and for those/the families of those who had been killed. I watched a documentary about that transition to democracy and how Spain grapples with its legacy of Franco (or rather, doesn’t), and one elderly man was talking about how after Spain’s transition to democracy, he lived across the street from the man who tortured him. Justice was never received; none of the people who tortured, executed, and imprisoned people were punished.