Our analysis.
In 2019, just before Generalissimo Franco's protracted and indecent exhumation from his ostentatious tomb on the grounds of the Valley of the Fallen Memorial, screenwriter Jose Travajo and the late artist Miguel Gallardo released the graphic novel Dance of the Fallen. The plot of the comic revolves around the adventures of a grotesque handful of far-right fanatics. Out of rage at the desecration of the caudillo's ashes, they decide to take a desperate step: they steal the ark sacred to them to hide it in a place where, in their opinion, it can rest with due respect.
The operation predictably ends in fiasco. The casket flies off a cliff, shatters into pieces, but instead of the expected pile of historical decay, Franco himself appears from there - alive, moth-eaten, but still with the Messianic syndrome. The dead man immediately raises his hand in a Roman salute and promises to set Spain on its "true" path.
But the biggest surprise awaits the reader when the resurrected anachronism collides with the political reality of Spain today. A shocking truth is revealed: the old dictator did not need to perform a miracle of resurrection to remain the main figure in Spanish politics. His name is traded endlessly and with equal enthusiasm by all political factions without exception.
Socialist Pedro Sánchez uses the memory of the dictatorship as an argument for the defense of democratic institutions and as a warning against the consequences of a possible right-wing rise to power. The center-right Popular Party (PP) has sought to distance itself from the historical legacy of the dictatorship but also opposes what it sees as the politicization of the socialists' historical memory. Well, the right-wing radicals from Vox are completely stuck in the stage of revisionist denial, and are fiercely challenging the right to call Franco's rule a dictatorship.
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