When people go to Spain, do they know about the mass graves?

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It wasn't that long ago that I found out that Spain has the second largest numbers of mass graves in the world, after Cambodia. They are the graves of thousands who died in the Spanish civil war as well as during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Spain is a lovely country and I went to Minorca as a kid but I now can't help but think that people might be walking around without realising there maybe still be graves full of skeletons from over 80 years ago still laying undiscovered. It has only been in recent years or decades that they have been digging them up.

Wow, that's just cheered me up no end..

When People Go To Spain, Do They Know About The Mass Graves?

Maybe we could interview all visitors at the border to find out.
Are people who don't go to Spain aware?

This is why studying history is so important.

If you're talking about actual numbers of murdered people in mass graves...the former Soviet Union probably has the most (after Cambodia).

But Spain may have the most number of mass graves and the greatest number of buried victims per unit of land area because Spain is smaller than Russia, or even the Ukraine. Or second most after Cambodia.

But the man who perpetrated the 130 thousand victims in mass graves was Franco, who died in the Seventies, and was succeeded by the modern democratic govt. of Spain. So I dont see the reason that tourists should be upset about it.

Every country has something like that.

Fifty six thousand prisoners of war died in POW camps in the American Civil War (both southern men in northern camps and northern men in southern camps totaled together). But I dont ask foreign tourists to go into mourning about it when they come here (unless they actually visit an actual site like Andersonville Georgia).

Of course they don't know. Or care. For humans are just naturally selfish and ignorant and love to wallow in their blind ignorance and denial, like fat bloated hogs.

But the bullfights are even worse.

Apparently the OP thinks of Spain THIS way:



When I think of Spain I think of the "Black Paintings by Goya" produced during Napoleon's occupation of Spain a century before Franco's time...and of the Inquisition, and of the above mention blood sport of bullfighting. There are many dark pages in that country's history.


https://youtu.be/5mAfHs12N_g