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Ignorance and justification for Franco on TikTok: The cocktail that pushes young people towards historical revisionism


Historians warn of the complexity of competing against social networks and the popularity of far-right YouTubers

There are institutes, such as Núñez de Arce high school in Valladolid, that organize visits to the Cuelgamuros Valley, the former burial site of the dictator, to perform the fascist salute, while others take their students to witness the exhumations of mass graves of opponents shot by the Franco regime. They burned his face with a liquid, put adhesive tape on his eyes and took him, permanently at gunpoint, to a remote place where they tortured and interrogated him to reveal his source for an article on the dismissal and transfer of moderate Civil Guard generals that he had published in the magazine Doblón under a pseudonym. Antonio González Pacheco, alias "Billy the Kid," during his time as a police officer.A member of the Spanish Communist Party, Pérez Lara suffered all kinds of beatings and humiliations at the General Directorate of Security, the current seat of the Madrid regional government: blows to the penis, threats at gunpoint... they even pretended they were going to throw him out of a window.

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