The Dictator’s Enablers

How Some Survived Franco and Others Paid the Price

Mar 06, 2025

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FOREWORD FROM THE EDITOR (Daniel Clarke-Serret):

Today Guerre and Shalom is honoured to feature a guest article from Francisco J Bernal. In this very personal piece, the author retraces his family’s history from the Spanish Civil War. He considers the big questions faced by all those under a dictatorial regime: dignity versus servitude, exile versus subm…

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A guest post by

Francisco J. Bernal

Francisco J. Bernal writes in Spanish and English from his home in the UK, tracing stories that slip between silence and memory, exile and return. His Substack, The Lantern and the Void, follows the light that escapes through history’s cracks.