I’m finding out fascinating things about the life of Francisco Franco from his biography by Stanley G. Payne and Jesús Palacios. For instance, it turns out that Franco’s father Nicolás was a left-liberal who abandoned Franco’s pious mother Pilar for a life of dissipation in Madrid. He was also a raging pedo who impregnated and abandoned a 14-year-girl at the age of 33. Nicolás was really upset when his son became the right-wing dictator of Spain.
In a rejection of his father’s life journey, Franco became a chaste, faithful family man in adulthood.
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