Save the late Franco era because breasts and thighs were visible

The cinema of the 'uncovering'
26/10/2025
1 min

The media machinery working for political regression in Spain has an aggressive campaign to rehabilitate Franco. The latest example is an article in The debate entitled "The terminal Franco regime and the happy, short-skirted Spain". It is a review of Jorge Vilches' latest book, which highlights the interpretation that Franco's regime had its downsides, but there was great joy in the squares and streets, as demonstrated unquestionably and scientifically by the fact that women showed their thighs. "The explosion of the Franco regime is dealt with with extraordinary success." uncover "erotic," the reviewer writes with excessive enthusiasm, as if the rise of the miniskirt were incompatible with political repression. The most rancid National Catholicism perhaps assumed that Swedish women were the inevitable evil to maintain the Spain of sun and paella, but that the majority, whether they lived or lived politicized, continued to suffer. hardcore such as: "His abstinence from mobilizing should be understood as a prudent expectation and a commitment to temperate solutions." There will be those who, on the other hand, will see it as a consequence of the kindness of the police on the streets, always ready to lend a hand, or twenty of them with batons. Or of the narcotization of a country thanks, among others, to tightly controlled public television or press censorship. Plus linguistic repression, of course. In any dictatorship, daily life finds its way and humans seek joy. The fact that post-Franco newsstands were filled with pitram is just another symptom of the moral and phallocentric misery that era left behind. Celebrating this seeks to reinforce the saying "well, people lived well" and validates the old, stale advice attributed to Franco: do as I do and don't get involved in politics.

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