F is for Franco but not for fascist, apparently | Miguel-Anxo Murado | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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Did you know that General Franco was not a dictator, just a bit too “authoritarian”? What about the people who opposed him? Ever felt the temptation to call them democrats or anti-fascists? Wrong. According to Spain’s Royal Academy of History, the right term should be either “bandits” or “terrorists”. …