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This Tuesday, October the Parade of the Armed Forces returns to Madrid, celebrating the National Holiday Day or Hispanic Heritage Day , with a military parade, presided over by the kings. Let's give a brief history of this parade. On April the newspaper Diario de Navarra, on the front page, and with a headline in size 24, proclaimed the XXIII Anniversary of the Victory . It reproduced, along with a photo of the dictator, the last war report: “Today, with the Red Army captive and disarmed, the National troops have reached their last military objectives. The war is over". navarran diary 1 To judge the spirit and thought that the Francoists of Diario de Navarra kept fresh from the war, after an entire generation had passed, it is very illustrative to remember a kind of editorial without a signature - supposedly from its director, Raimundo García García , alias Garcilaso , where he repeated the same thing that he said on July 18, 1936, and that now, in 1962, he would repeat literally. “ In no way can we consider this conflict as a simple civil war .” It was not a political system, nor a dynastic question that was debated in the bloody fields of Spain, but two different concepts of philosophy and life.
Was, nothing more than, the first great battle won against international communism , perhaps the only great battle in which the materialist concept of History, with all its consequences, was decisively defeated. Spain, today, exactly twenty-three years ago, knew how to resolve satisfactorily and in a timely manner, with pain and blood, it is true, its future destiny, something that Australia Phone Number today worries the majority of humanity . And that is why Spain is one of the few countries that enjoy truly exceptional peace and security in the world today .” With a pair. In 1964, the formula “ Victory Day ” changed its name to “ Peace Parade ”, in commemoration of Years of Peace in Spain . Despite this conceptual camouflage, its content of coup and military exaltation continued without changing in the slightest. Diario de Navarra , on April 2 of that year, reflected the event held in the Valley of the Fallen (Cuelgamuros), describing the Te Deum of the XXV years of peace, with the assistance of Prince Juan Carlos and his wife Sofía of Greece.
The headline, very graphic, stated that “the 25th anniversary of Victory was commemorated,” confusing it with that of Peace, two concepts that are not at all compatible. And, well, perhaps, he said well, because there never was that Peace. Only victory. In that aforementioned ceremony, Cardinal Primate Pla y Deniel appeared as the main teacher , who did the honors to Franco, dressed for war rather than for peace, not in vain he was dressed in his captain general's uniform, wearing on his chest the Grand Laureate Cross of San Fernando; raising, in case it was not clear who was in charge, the baton of command of the armies of Earth, Sea and Air. In the atrium of the Basilica, the cardinal was waiting for him, who gave him the lignum crucis to kiss , at the same time offering him holy water to cross himself. Then, under a canopy, preceded by the raised cross, he would begin his processional entry into the temple to the strains of the national anthem played by an organ. If this ceremony was a hymn to peace, it was, of course, the peace that was always talked about in Spain on the defeated side: the peace of the walls and that of the cemeteries. Once the dictator died, the date of the parade was moved to May.
Was, nothing more than, the first great battle won against international communism , perhaps the only great battle in which the materialist concept of History, with all its consequences, was decisively defeated. Spain, today, exactly twenty-three years ago, knew how to resolve satisfactorily and in a timely manner, with pain and blood, it is true, its future destiny, something that Australia Phone Number today worries the majority of humanity . And that is why Spain is one of the few countries that enjoy truly exceptional peace and security in the world today .” With a pair. In 1964, the formula “ Victory Day ” changed its name to “ Peace Parade ”, in commemoration of Years of Peace in Spain . Despite this conceptual camouflage, its content of coup and military exaltation continued without changing in the slightest. Diario de Navarra , on April 2 of that year, reflected the event held in the Valley of the Fallen (Cuelgamuros), describing the Te Deum of the XXV years of peace, with the assistance of Prince Juan Carlos and his wife Sofía of Greece.
The headline, very graphic, stated that “the 25th anniversary of Victory was commemorated,” confusing it with that of Peace, two concepts that are not at all compatible. And, well, perhaps, he said well, because there never was that Peace. Only victory. In that aforementioned ceremony, Cardinal Primate Pla y Deniel appeared as the main teacher , who did the honors to Franco, dressed for war rather than for peace, not in vain he was dressed in his captain general's uniform, wearing on his chest the Grand Laureate Cross of San Fernando; raising, in case it was not clear who was in charge, the baton of command of the armies of Earth, Sea and Air. In the atrium of the Basilica, the cardinal was waiting for him, who gave him the lignum crucis to kiss , at the same time offering him holy water to cross himself. Then, under a canopy, preceded by the raised cross, he would begin his processional entry into the temple to the strains of the national anthem played by an organ. If this ceremony was a hymn to peace, it was, of course, the peace that was always talked about in Spain on the defeated side: the peace of the walls and that of the cemeteries. Once the dictator died, the date of the parade was moved to May.