" these boys chipping at the rigidities of social deference, in search of a place, a voice. In Spain too the old power seemed to be dying, but slowly and viciously and, as it turned out, not yet. Nor would it depart in the way scripted by Republican reformers, and not before in its passing it claimed from that generation a barbaric tribute, exacted in the coin of “national cleansing "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century