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...This was partly because of Israel’s hostility to the Franco dictatorship, which lasted from Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war to 1975 and was at times ferociously antisemitic — as set out in Paul Preston’s book...
...As Preston writes, Franco believed fervently in the Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory....
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...The duo behind Franco-Argentinian studio Bougie Woogie, industrial designers Jazmín Feige and Matias Gonzalez, were also influenced by the idea of adding a bit of magic to the home....
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...In fairness, this system guaranteed a stable democracy which was the overriding priority for the architects of Spain’s future after the 1975 death of Francisco Franco....
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...An earlier centre-right party was wiped out after winning the first two post-Franco elections....
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...Mr Borrell was regarded as a heavyweight in the Sánchez administration, having been a minister under Felipe González in the 1980s and ’90s, a former leader of the Socialist party (PSOE) and president of...
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