John H. Elliott: "The main mistake of the pro-independence movement was to live in a virtual reality"

Q. And new generations who saw things differently. A. Exactly. They do not remember Franco. They do not remember the Civil War, they do not remember the Transition and in fact they have very little sense of history. After seeing what the dictatorship of Franco in Catalonia meant, and after seeing what, in my opinion, have been the best years in the history of Catalonia, between 1978 and 2008,
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