"The absence of democratic rupture has prevented the resignification of the places of the dictator Franco"

Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Ourense, 1966) has traveled and studied the whole of Europe in search of vestiges of dictatorships, as well as the formulas that different countries have applied to redefine and democratize the traces of totalitarian regimes. After a journey from Spain and Portugal to the former Soviet Union, of course through Germany, Italy or the Balkans, this polyglot Galician professor has concluded that there are many alternatives to give another meaning to the symbols of dictatorships. Now, one of the evidences of Wolf's Lairs. Memories of authoritarian Europe, 1945-2020 (Review) points out that the countries that emerged from dictatorships with a democratic breakdown have had an easier task and have achieved a deeper resignification.