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*Not to be confused with the White Terrors in France, Bulgaria, Russia,
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Hungary, China, Taiwan, Finland and Greece.*
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*Content Warning: This article contains extensive discussion of mass
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murder, rape and child abuse*
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The **White Terror** or **Francoist Repression** refers to mass killings
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and repressions by the Nationalist Faction in the [Spanish Civil
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War](Spanish_Civil_War "wikilink") and the dictatorship in Spain against
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political opponents. Including republicans,
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[anti-fascists](Anti-Fascism "wikilink"), socialists,
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[anarchists](Anarchism "wikilink"), protestants, freemasons,
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intellectuals and nationalists who supported an independent Galicia,
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Catalonia and Basque. Between 58,000 and 400,000 were killed during the
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repression. It is frequently compared to and contrasted with the
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[Spanish Red Terror](Red_Terror_\(Spain\) "wikilink").
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## During the Civil War
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## After the War
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### Anti-Feminism
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Women's and LGBT rights were lost in the new regime as
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[patriarchy](patriarchy "wikilink") was violently enforced, thousands of
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gay people were arrested and executed in concentration camps. Divorces
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were made illegal and divorced couples were forced by the state to
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remarry. Women now needed the permission of their husbands to take a job
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or open a bank account, and adultery was criminalised for women but not
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for men.
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Women who opposed the regime faced brutal repression, being paraded
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naked through the streets, being shaved and forced to ingest castor oil
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so they would urinate themselves in public. Sexual harassment and rape
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of dissident women was performed by police and soldiers and the widows
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of republicans were confiscated by the government, forcing many into
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prostitution just to survive, leading to:
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> "The increase in prostitution both benefited Francoist men who thereby
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> slaked their lust and also reassured them that 'red' women were a
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> fount of dirt and corruption".
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### Censorship
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Books, poetry, songs, plastic arts, film and theater that were critical
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of the regime were all banned and anyone caught distributing it would be
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arrested. Several schools of art, writing and music were banned as they
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were seen as too close to communism.\[1\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") (Spanish) -
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<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Represi%C3%B3n_franquista#La_represi%C3%B3n_cultural> |