I can’t emphasise enough that this was true in Spain as a whole.

…ere changed to Spanish. The thriving Catalonian publishing and media industry was nearly destroyed. Thousands of teachers were fired from schools and replaced with ideologically reliable hacks. If a Catalan was caught reading a book in his or her language or speaking the mother tongue, gangs of soldiers or police would beat the offender to a pulp. Through the 1960s, anyone attempting independent political organization or opposition to the regime faced the same treatment — or worse.
If You Think Francisco Franco Is Dead, Think Again
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Paul Richard Huard
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I can’t emphasise enough that this was true in Spain as a whole. Public servants were purged; literature, films, music and art were harshly censored; political dissent stamped out; “deviant” behaviour of any kind (be it homosexuality, socialism, atheism) was punished…
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