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"Mr President, as a European and Catalan I fully support the need to reinforce historical memory in order to avoid future disasters while we learn from our past.
In Mr Takkula's report there is a proposal to finance historical sites related to the main totalitarian regimes that Europe endured during the 20th century – Nazism and Stalinism. I agree with him, but we would also like to extend this proposal to other aspects directly related to this kind of authoritarianism.
In our case, in the Catalan country, we suffered Franco's dictatorship which was closely related in origin to Nazism and Italian Fascism. The only president of a democratic nation killed as a consequence of World War II was Lluís Companys, President of the Catalan Autonomous Government. The first civilian population bombed indiscriminately by hostile aircraft was Guernica, the emblematic town in the Basque country.
If we neglect Franco's regime and other dictatorships in southern Europe and the need to rescue the historical memory of this dark period of our history, we avoid discussing the consequences of dictatorships, some of them very disturbing for the European Union, even today."@en1
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