Spain's psychotic socialists try to re-write history.

Luckily for them, the antique media and most historians toe the left-fascist party line.

If you are interested in learning the truth about the Spanish Civil War, here are three books I highly recommend:

The Spanish Civil War, The Soviet Union, and Communism by Stanley G. Payne

Spain Betrayed edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck, and Grigory Sevostianov (Hey, did somebody put something in the water up there at Yale?)

Franco by Paul Preston


Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: Spain Approves Civil War Reparations Bill

MADRID, Spain (AP) - The Spanish government has approved a divisive bill allowing reparations for victims of the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, one of the darkest chapters of Spain's modern history.

The bill also bans symbols and references to the 1939-1975 Franco regime in public buildings and asks local governments to rename streets or plazas that are named after the former dictator or allude to his regime.

"This bill is going to help heal without reopening old wounds,'' Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said Friday. She expressed hope it would allow Spain "to close with honor a tragic chapter of our history.''

The legislation, prepared by an ad hoc government commission, is expected to gain the majority approval required in Parliament. It was uncertain whether it would go before lawmakers by the end of the year.

Conservatives have opposed the idea of reparations, saying it goes against the reconciliatory spirit of the country's democratic transition. After Franco's death in 1975, Spaniards adopted what has been called a pact of silence to not focus on unhealed wounds, preferring instead to work toward rebuilding a shattered nation.

"Revising history is a great mistake,'' said Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy. "Spain has to look at the future and resolve the problems that people are really interested in. The vast majority of Spaniards don't want to talk about the civil war or Franco.''

Some leftist parties and victims associations argue the bill does not go far enough, saying it lacks a condemnation of the Franco regime and measures such as the annulment of summary trials during the dictatorship.

Under the legislation, all victims of the civil war launched by Franco's revolt against the republican government and his dictatorship - including exiles, former prisoners and relatives of those executed - would have a year to claim reparations.

The bill urges local authorities to help relatives exhume loved ones who were buried in mass graves, and calls for the organization of government archives on the period to improve access to documents scattered around the country.

It also prohibits political events at the Valley of the Fallen, a colossal monument outside Madrid that includes Franco's tomb and is the most potent symbol of his regime.