Life of Sánchez Mazas: Ultra-Catholic, Writer of Beautiful Pages and the Falangist Who Coined the “Arriba España!”

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“I neither regret nor forget.” This was the expression of intellectual Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of Falange Española, a fascist party, at the end of the fifties on what the Civil War had supposed and what Francoism was. Not a step back from a contradictory character, refined lover of classical Rome, writer of beautiful pages and a warist who justified the fratricidal conflict that had left half a million dead. If we add to this t…