In 1982, when he became president of the government of Spain, a good-looking young socialist lawyer called Felipe Gonzalez was asked how he was going to change the country.

It had been through the mill. In 1975 Gen Francisco Franco died, having ruled as a dictator since winning the Spanish civil war almost 40 years earlier. The republicans on the losing side of the war were brutally repressed by Franco and tens of thousands had died in detention...

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