Franco's tomb desecrated for political aggrandisement.

which is why there is nothing to discuss on Franco. The people have spoken with a overwhelming majority, best you and your fellow Franco supporters just be quiet now and shut up.

Of course there is nothing I can do, and nor should there be, I am not Spanish. It's just that it sets a possible precedent that could lead to disinterment of bodies from nearly every major cemetery in dozens of countries, should the liberals choose to make more anguished waves. Where does it stop, do we dig up every murderer and rapist? Every slave trader? Every child molester and put them in unmarked graves or bury their remains at sea? We now have students on bursaries paid for by the magnanimity of Victorians clamoring for every trace of their existence to be removed from the buildings and their grounds, that they paid for. I have yet to see any remove themselves from these establishments, they continue to get subsidized education whilst making a lot of noise. A lot like all the "celebrities" who vowed to leave the UK or the USA when things didn't go to their liking. 99% plus are still there, or here, impotently bleating.
 
Perhaps it makes for interesting conversation with his father over dinner.

Wrong thread, you are probably thinking of the Hitler / Nazi one where someone wanted to learn more to have an in depth conversation with his father on this subject. My father is dead, so seances aside, conversation is extremely limited these days, save in my prayers!
 
What on Earth is this...

He was a murderous dictator. Screw his grave.


One man's dictator is sometimes another man's savior. Calm yourself :)

From 2006, in The Guardian:

As Spain marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the its bloody civil war, El Mundo newspaper today published (in Spanish) a survey which found that a third of the population still believe General Franco was right to overthrow the Republican government. During the resulting three-year campaign between supporters of the socialist government and Franco's rightwing nationalist army more than 500,000 people are thought to have been killed.
Seventy years after the coup, the memory of those events continues to divide Spanish public opinion. Critical opinion of the uprising is greater among younger people than the elderly where one in four prefer not to state any opinion.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/jul/18/post181

Given one in four declined an opinion one might assume his fans were considerably more than a third of the population?
 
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