Status Updates From A Long Petal of the Sea

“Franco’s rebels were hoping to take over the whole country within a week, but came up against unexpected resistance from the working class, organized in militias and determined to defend the rights they had won.”

“This saw the start of a period of unleashed hatred, vengeance and terror that was to cost Spain a million lives. The strategy… was to spill as much blood as possible and to spread terror, the only way they could destroy any hint of resistance from the conquered people.”

How’s the saying go? History repeats itself?