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Two Hundred Thousand Deaths in the Post-War Period Due to Franco's Famine

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Francoist propaganda and the silence pacts of the Spanish transition have made us believe that the post-war famine was a consequence of the 1936-39 war and international factors. It is not true. Hunger, misery and the two hundred thousand deaths from starvation and related diseases had political objectives of autarky, repression, propaganda and revenge. The regime's contempt for the defeated and the autarkic convictions were the foundations for …
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Francoist propaganda and the silence pacts of the Spanish transition have made us believe that the post-war famine was a consequence of the 1936-39 war and international factors. It is not true. Hunger, misery and the two hundred thousand deaths from starvation and related diseases had political objectives of autarky, repression, propaganda and revenge. The regime's contempt for the defeated and the autarkic convictions were the foundations for …

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VilaWeb.cat broke the news in on Sunday, October 5, 2025.
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