*Not to be confused with the White Terrors in France, Bulgaria, Russia,
Hungary, China, Taiwan, Finland and Greece.*

*Content Warning: This article contains extensive discussion of mass
murder, rape and child abuse*

The **White Terror** or **Francoist Repression** refers to mass killings
and repressions by the Nationalist Faction in the [Spanish Civil
War](Spanish_Civil_War "wikilink") and the dictatorship in Spain against
political opponents. Including republicans,
[anti-fascists](Anti-Fascism "wikilink"), socialists,
[anarchists](Anarchism "wikilink"), protestants, freemasons,
intellectuals and nationalists who supported an independent Galicia,
Catalonia and Basque. Between 58,000 and 400,000 were killed during the
repression. It is frequently compared to and contrasted with the
[Spanish Red Terror](Red_Terror_\(Spain\) "wikilink").

## During the Civil War

## After the War

### Anti-Feminism

Women's and LGBT rights were lost in the new regime as
[patriarchy](patriarchy "wikilink") was violently enforced, thousands of
gay people were arrested and executed in concentration camps. Divorces
were made illegal and divorced couples were forced by the state to
remarry. Women now needed the permission of their husbands to take a job
or open a bank account, and adultery was criminalised for women but not
for men.

Women who opposed the regime faced brutal repression, being paraded
naked through the streets, being shaved and forced to ingest castor oil
so they would urinate themselves in public. Sexual harassment and rape
of dissident women was performed by police and soldiers and the widows
of republicans were confiscated by the government, forcing many into
prostitution just to survive, leading to:

> "The increase in prostitution both benefited Francoist men who thereby
> slaked their lust and also reassured them that 'red' women were a
> fount of dirt and corruption".

### Censorship

Books, poetry, songs, plastic arts, film and theater that were critical
of the regime were all banned and anyone caught distributing it would be
arrested. Several schools of art, writing and music were banned as they
were seen as too close to communism.\[1\]

## References

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1.  [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") (Spanish) -
    <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Represi%C3%B3n_franquista#La_represi%C3%B3n_cultural>