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Up with Spain! Long live Spain
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- I would like in these, my last moments, to join the names of God and Spain, and for us all to embrace one another and to shout for the last time on the threshold of my death: Up with Spain! Long live Spain!
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Sep 4, 2024 · Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975.
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