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media type="youtube" key="6dynaoUlouU&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" = //This is was sang by school children when Spain was under Franco, in places like Malaga.// =

Cara al sol con la camisa nueva que tú bordaste en rojo ayer, me hallará la muerte si me lleva y no te vuelvo a ver. Formaré junto a mis compañeros que hacen guardia sobre los luceros, impasible el ademán, y están presentes en nuestro afán. Si te dicen que caí, me fui al puesto que tengo allí. Volverán banderas victoriosas al paso alegre de la paz y traerán prendidas cinco rosas: las flechas de mi haz. Volverá a reír la primavera, que por cielo, tierra y mar se espera. Arriba escuadras a vencer que en España empieza a amanecer. || **//__ Translation to English __//** Face to the sun with the new shirt that you embroidered yesterday in red, it will find the death to me if it takes to me and I do not return to see you.
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I will form next to my companions who are on duty on the stars, impassible the gesture, and they are present in our eagerness.

If they say to you that I fell, I went to since I have there.

They will return victorious flags to the glad step of La Paz and they will bring caught five roses: you shoot with an arrow of my beam.

It will return to laugh the spring, that by sky, earth and sea it is expected.

It arrives squares to win that in Spain it begins to dawn. ||

Children in school were forced to sing the Franchist song, like the song that is shown at the begining of this presentation. For example my mum had to do this every morning with her right arm up, like Nazis. She lived in Malaga, at that time Malaga was under the dictatorship of Franco. Children were brainwashed, they were told that Franco was the best, if not they were killed. My mothers family was Franchist at that time, they didn't have the choice, now that they know what he actually did they are against it, but people had to save themselves it was the best think to do at that time, such as German people during World War 2. Other people like my father opposed Franco and participated to the strikes. My dad participated to many riots against him, and spoke out in speechs many times in University when he was a Teenager after Franco's death

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Why did people oppose Franco? __ People didn’t have freedom of speech at all, they didn’t want the country to become Franchist, and they wanted peace, but that couldn’t fight because if they were against Franco they were to be killed, everyone had to agree with him. It was too difficult for people to always hide themselves, in the end they had to leave the country, to save themselves, they weren’t strong enough to stand for their country. It was hard to be stronger than Franco since he was general of a Fascist military.



__ What did they do to express themselves against Franco? __ The communist population tried many things to stand against Franco, such as: striking, illegal leaflets, terrorists trying to kill Franco and the International Brigade. The striking consisted in all students to go round the street shouting out what they felt about Franco, then the police would come to hit them and they would try to run away from them. The illegal leaflets were leaflets that students wrote, saying to what point they were against Franco. Like the white rose during the Second World War they were to be executed if they got caught. The international Brigade consisted in foreigners helping the Spanish to fight against Franco, they would help them economically and help them to fight.

__ What happened in the end? __ After the Spanish civil war, there had been a big impact of Spanish immigrants in different countries, in France there were 1 million of Spanish immigrant, when people ran away they went to the closest country. After Franco’s death, a Franchist government was made. People were even more determined to eliminate them and to speak their mind up. People ended up having two lives: their normal everyday life and the life where they had to lie and hide to save their families. Not long ago the Spanish Government decided to give benefits to the families that had to leave the country due to the civil war. Lots of people in France are from Spain or have Spanish origins, but they all had to move to France eventually otherwise they were killed.