The Shadow of Fascism

Fascism is an extreme right-winged ultranationalist ideology that emerged in the early XX century in Europe. Characterized by its totalitarianism and had its focal point in Italy with Mussolini and Germany with Hitler, who lost the Second World War, and in Spain with Francisco Franco, who won the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and ruled the country for over 40 years. Before Franco died in 1975, he named his successor Juan Carlos I de Borbon, father of Spain's current King Felipe VI and who was the face of the country's transition to Democracy. Because Fascists ruled for so many years and it's deeply rooted in Spain's system and culture, plus some political figures being open supporters of different branches of this ideology, in the past few years it has increased to unsuspected and dangerous levels, threatening democracy.