</image> <label>Performers</label> <label>Date</label> <label>Location</label> </infobox>Not to be confused with the White Terrors in France, Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, China, Taiwan, Finland and Greece. Content Warning: This article contains extensive discussion of mass murder, rape and child abuse The White Terror or Francoist Repression refers to mass killings and repressions by the Nationalist Faction in the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship in Spain against political opponents. Including republicans, anti-fascists, socialists, anarchists, protestants, freemasons, intellectuals and nationalists who supported an independent Galicia, Catalonia and Basque. Between 58,000 and 400,000 were killed during the repression. It is frequently compared to and contrasted with the Spanish Red Terror.
During the Civil War
After the War
Anti-Feminism
Women's and LGBT rights were lost in the new regime as patriarchy was violently enforced, thousands of gay people were arrested and executed in concentration camps. Divorces were made illegal and divorced couples were forced by the state to remarry. Women now needed the permission of their husbands to take a job or open a bank account, and adultery was criminalised for women but not for men.
Women who opposed the regime faced brutal repression, being paraded naked through the streets, being shaved and forced to ingest castor oil so they would urinate themselves in public. Sexual harassment and rape of dissident women was performed by police and soldiers and the widows of republicans were confiscated by the government, forcing many into prostitution just to survive, leading to:
"The increase in prostitution both benefited Francoist men who thereby slaked their lust and also reassured them that 'red' women were a fount of dirt and corruption".
Censorship
Books, poetry, songs, plastic arts, film and theater that were critical of the regime were all banned and anyone caught distributing it would be arrested. Several schools of art, writing and music were banned as they were seen as too close to communism.[1]