The long period of prostration weighed on the self-esteem of the Spaniard.

After all, looking back at the century that was declining, the balance was very poor.

Neither before '36 had he been able to build a democracy, nor after he managed to overthrow a dictatorship.

Calling this failure may be an exaggeration, because he may not have sought one thing or the other, and if it was what he longed for, he certainly did not pursue it.

I refer to Spanish as a historical subject, a simplification that serves to understand

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