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One day, some children came to tell me that some guards were looking for
my uncle. I sent them to look for him because I was working in the field. I
prepared his white blouse, which he put on upon arriving, and he
presented himself before the authorities.
-We present you with the town keys – they told him.
My uncle took charge. He later came to be mayor because he was voted
by the people. (Personal interview, 2005)
She was very young back then but according to her own words, she remembers it
“as if it had happened yesterday”. She likes to remember the order and respect that there
was during the times of Franco. Also, the courtesy of the gentlemen for the ladies. She
remembers how the men would stand up in the bus to let her sit.
Other participants remember that in many parts of Spain oil was smuggled, but
they insist that they would only hear these things commented by the adults.
-They would say that they had to hide the oil in pig skins, so that it would pass
unnoticed in the train –some of the participants commented. Then, they would exchange
the oil for whatever they lacked the most (Interview, 2006).
A Pig skin. 2006
Picture by Federico Varona
Other people remember the rationing that arrived once the war ended. There were
some tickets that were used to get sugar, oil, and other things to eat. Inspectors would
make sure you only had what you were allowed. They only permitted you to have a
certain amount of things, and if you had more they would take it from you. (Personals
interviews, January 2005, 2006).
Some vaguely remember some people that did not belong to the same current
ideological of the regimen. They called them “the rojillos” (“the red”), but they do not
remember there being bad treatment.
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