I prefer you answer my question:
“Wouldn’t it, just logically, also matter what the dictator dictates?”
Even more so that I already told you, I haven’t lived under Franco. Nor should it matter; most historians form their opinion based on historical facts rather than on a personal experience.
How about your father, has he lived under Franco?
It’s an illogical question. Being dictated to about anything isn’t living as a free people. ‘’There’s a history in all mens life’’. William L. Shirer lived in Berlin with his Austrian -born wife through the early years of the Nazi Party as an American newspaper correspondent. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote one of the greatest exposes of the Soviet gulags in his novel “A Day In The Life Of Ivan Desonovich’’ having survived the gulags himself. Eric Maria Remark wrote his expose, “All Quiet On The Western Front’’ of the horrors of World War 1 based on his experience as a front line soldier. It landed him afoul of the Nazis and he fled Germany for the United States.
To listen to my Dad tell it, yes he did live under Franco(he’s 85). I told him “No Dad. You lived in America, not Franco’s Spain. “You couldn’t have known what it was like’’. And neither do you.