The Stalinist censorship of Bolaños and Pedro Sánchez against King Emeritus Juan Carlos I

The government of Pedro Sánchez has spent years invoking "historical memory" to disguise the manipulation of history by the left.

The government mounts a campaign against the King to cover up Sánchez's cowardice in Paiporta
Alfonso Ussía and some words by King Juan Carlos about shaking bloody hands

This left wing is no longer just manipulating the events that occurred during the Second Republic and the Civil War, two periods in Spain's past in which socialists and communists were involved in serious crimes, but it is also manipulating our more recent past, that part of our history of which we still have many living witnesses, a past that includes the crimes of the terrorist group ETA, which Sánchez intends to remove from the European lists of terrorist groups in a new exchange of favors between that criminal group and the PSOE.

Yesterday, the newspaper El Debate revealed a new example of the Socialists' manipulation of history: The government has organized an exhibition about the Constitution from which it has removed all references to King Emeritus Juan Carlos I, who was the Head of State at the time of the Constitution's approval and who signed our Magna Carta. The exhibition was organized by the Ministry of the Presidency, headed by the Socialist Félix Bolaños, and was inaugurated yesterday in the Congress of Deputies.

Obviously, Bolaños is not solely responsible for this intolerable censorship. Something like this wouldn't happen without the participation of Pedro Sánchez, the president of the Spanish government, who keeps Juan Carlos I in what is essentially an infamous situation of exile, without the King Emeritus having been convicted or even prosecuted for any crime—something that cannot be said of Sánchez's personal circle and political entourage. Basically, the most corrupt government in the history of Spanish democracy keeps Juan Carlos I in exile because it doesn't consider him an exemplary figure, as if this government were in a position to give lessons.

The erasure of prominent figures who were inconvenient for a ruler is something Stalinism made a habit of, manipulating photographs to make them disappear and erasing their traces in an imitation of the "damnatio memoriae" applied by ancient Rome, by which enemies of the state were condemned to oblivion after death. Sánchez has been behaving like an authoritarian ruler who confuses his desires with the law, wielding his power as if Spain were his private estate and appropriating all state institutions to put them at the service of his party. He is the worst ruler Spain has had in half a century.

With all his virtues and flaws, Juan Carlos I was the Head of State who restored democracy to Spain, playing a highly commendable role during the difficult years of the Transition, when ETA and GRAPO terrorism resorted to a wave of assassinations to undermine the new regime of freedoms. Juan Carlos I acted courageously against the coup attempt of February 23, 1981, preventing Spain from reliving the terrible years of the civil war that littered our country with corpses between 1936 and 1939.

The history of Spain would have been worse without that King, and without his actions, our democracy would surely be far more flawed than it already is. Perhaps that is why Sánchez and his party detest him, but that does not give them the right to subject him to purely Stalinist censorship, as if Spain were already the dictatorship they are striving to establish. Juan Carlos I deserves to once again occupy a prominent place in the history that the PSOE wants to rewrite, a history in which its darkest pages will recount the infamies that Sánchez and his cronies have committed against our country, subjecting it to a metastasis of political corruption that is tarnishing Spain's good name.

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