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My Father Fled Fascism in Spain and Taught Me How Lies Can Destroy a Democracy Time 8 hrs ago Sebastian Junger © FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images A demonstration against Francisco Franco outside the headquarters of the United States delegation to the United Nations in the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, Jan. 2, 1946. The truth can’t destroy a democracy but lies can. At age thirteen my father was awoken by machine gun fire in the streets of Madrid. It was 1936, and a coalition of progressive groups had just swept the national elections, infuriating the Spanish right-wing. Soldiers in the Montana barracks, under Colonel Francisco Serra, begun trading fire with pro-government civilians that had massed in the surrounding streets. Holed up with the insurrectionists were civilian fascists called Falangists as well as a general who falsely claimed the national election had been stolen. (“The rebellion? We planned it the day we lost the election,” anothe

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