General Franco himself died in 1975, and the newly democratic country tried to forget him.
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The church says 4, 184 clergy were killed during the war by the government side, which accused the church of backing General Franco.
General Franco, who had ruled Spain since 1939, died two days previously.
Ms Medwick reports that General Franco, Spain's right-wing dictator from 1936 to 1975, kept Teresa's left hand beside him until his death.
At the time of its own transition from dictatorship to democracy, after General Franco's death in 1975, Spain decided to bury the past.
Some critics said that bullfighting flourished in Spain because the country was backward under General Franco, the Spanish dictator until his death in 1975.
Under the four-decade dictatorship of General Franco, Basques were subjected to repressive policies that led to the rise of the ETA armed group and Batasuna.
Spain, since General Franco died in 1975, has boldly devolved, giving more power to 17 new regions, and extra power still to Basques and Catalans.
While General Franco ruled Spain, its olive oil was sold cheaply to Italy where it was passed off as Italian, as a way around embargoes on Spanish goods.
He blames the so-called "pact of silence", which followed General Franco's death in 1975, in which an amnesty law, essentially forgiving Franco-era crimes, was approved as part of a precondition for a smooth transition to democracy.
Jose Maria Aznar, the first fully fledged conservative to be elected to power since the death of General Franco in 1975, is an ardent centrist these days, making much of his rapport with Britain's Tony Blair.
Jubilant Light Blues fans, who, in their giddy over-excitement, had spilled on to the pitch several times during the '72 final, clashed with General Franco's heavy-handed militia at the end of the match, souring the momentous occasion.
He remains proud of his own family's record in resisting right-wing authoritarianism: the fact that his brother was jailed, and he was arrested several times, in the days when Spain's leftists spent their time dodging General Franco's police.
When Spain became a democracy after General Franco's death in 1975, the Basques (and Catalans) got a big dose of autonomy and got even more this decade, when regional parties began to hold the balance of power in the parliament in Madrid.
Even Mr Gonzalez, who had been something of an icon, seeing that he had dominated the party for so many years since soon after the death of General Franco in 1975, has been given no post of any kind, even ceremonial.
Before that, during the 40-year-long dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, domestic violence was not considered a crime.
ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language, once enjoyed a greater degree of sympathy, especially in the days of dictator General Francisco Franco, who brutally repressed Basque culture.
Not only did the victory of the fascist dictator, General Francisco Franco, result in the brutal repression of those who fought against him on the Republican side but it also resulted in Madrid again ordering the abolition of Catalonia's autonomous institutions.
However, reports in several papers suggest that Capello and England's general manager, Franco Baldini have learnt that Carragher's position has softened and are keen to take him to this summer's tournament.
That evening, the Secretary-General attended a gala dinner, held at the Castello di Miramare and hosted by Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, for the G-8 and Quartet Ministers.
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