Fair enough. That's more history than I knew.
I'm not a believer in intergenerational guilt. I like the Spanish just fine. Our community has a bad recollection of those events which will probabaly not be overcome by historic accuracy, since even in your account, the baby was thrown out with the bathwater.
That always happens, doesn't it? In wars and revolutions, the innocent usually suffer with the guilty, and the victors are not usually completely pure either.