Madrid, Oct 23, 2025 (AFP) - 'Worst time': Franco splits three generations of Spanish women

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2025-10-23

Viviana cannot fathom why some of her elders -- starting with her grandmother -- fondly remember General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, "one of the worst times for women in Spain". "Also, knowing he was a 'friend' of Hitler, right?" the 20-year-old biology student told AFP as different generations of Spaniards grapple with his divisive legacy 50 years after his death. The end of Franco's iron-fisted 1939-1975 rule marked a major turning point......

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