Fernando del Rey, National History Prize: "It is nonsense about the pact of historical silence of the Transition"

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Fernando del Rey Reguillo, Professor of Political History and Social Movements at the University of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Complutense University, has obtained the National History Prize for his essay

(Gutenberg Galaxy).

"What I have tried to do has been to reflect on the violence of the interwar period, to find the logic of violence. And it is very difficult because

intervene

"says Fernando del Rey to EL MUNDO.

"Democracy, in that period, was a good scarce, democratic culture was difficult. But", and he wants to make it very clear, "the coup d'état of '36 almost collapsed the republican state."

The "infernal dialectic of the coup is what provokes" the tragedy.

"The war was avoidable. Without a coup there would have been no war", he clearly says, in front of the general opinion, "of 90% of historians."

It does not justify it

no matter how

.

And it figures the revolutionary repression in the rear at some 60,000 victims (although it maintains that it is very difficult to specify it);

on the

side

, the dead would be 100,000.

"The great slaughter on one side responds to the slaughter that took place on the other side," clarifies Fernando del Rey.

"The Republic was rebuilt in 1937 and tried to stop the massacres, also

that was given abroad, but the rebels, however, did not stop."

Fernando del Rey considers that the Republic, while it was fighting against the fascists, was trying at the same time to make the revolution.

So the government took refuge in various workers' organizations. "

"

. On both sides. It is necessary to liquidate the enemy to behead the enemy, this is how a territory is controlled. There were excesses on both sides," adds the professor.

On the supposed interest of History in recent years, Fernando del Rey assures that it has existed since the time of the Transition.

"It is nonsense about the pact of silence of the Transition.

. The investigation is done slowly and the military archives have been accessible" not so long ago, a source that has been the

base

The National History Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and has been awarded by the Ministry of Culture.

The work has been chosen for "constituting an innovative contribution in its methodology, based on microhistory and its characters and in the treatment of a subject as delicate as violence in the Civil War."

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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