In "Homage to Catalonia", his memoir of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell remarks that Francisco Franco's military uprising against Spain's elected government "was an attempt not so much to impose fascism as to restore feudalism".
Franco's grab for power, in particular, evokes medievel times : the parading soldiers who flourished enemy ears and noses on their bayonets, the mass public executions carried out in bullrings or with band music and onlookers dancing in the victim's blood.
Source : International Herald Tribune, Adam Hochschild "Process of extermination"
Source : International Herald Tribune, Adam Hochschild "Process of extermination"
