Status Updates From Franco: The Biography of th...

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During and after the war, the regime tried to suppress or at least control groups, movements and ideas; those it could not control, it simply banned. However, while institutions could be obliterated, collective memory could not.

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A person living in an open, democratic society would likely have difficulty understanding the symbolic power and the impact on the people of the discourses uttered by a dictator, specially the incessant repetition and insistence on the truthfulness and wisdom of his words.

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Starvation and disease killed close to 200,000 people between 1939 and 1945.
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Between 1939 and 1942, close to 50,000 Spaniards were shot and dumped in mass graves. Still in early 1943 approximately 90,000 Spaniards were held in prison for political crimes. Many more had been sentenced, fined, purged from their jobs or were on parole.

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I think this book is worth the time. It reveals Franco's rise to power as dictator of Spain and shows how he used all of his materials to build a godlike image of himself in the minds of the people. Joaquin Arraras was one of the writers who helped him very much to propaganda. 
Now, I'm on page 80 ;)

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Franco was called “caudillo” for the first time in the July 26, 1936 edition of ABC.
On October 4 Millán Astray published an article in Faro de Vigo under the title “Franco, conductor of Spain”, in which he claimed his friend had been “sent by God, as a Conductor for the liberation and greatness of Spain”.

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The death toll of the so-called Asturias Revolution has been estimated at 1,500, of whom just over 300 were soldiers and policemen.
Later, the far-right leader José Calvo Sotelo stated publicly that the government’s response was insufficient; he wanted a massacre along the lines of the reaction that met the Paris Commune in 1871 (which he estimated to be at the prophylactic level of 40,000 executed).

Good book.