Franco's Crypt

**An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain**********True, false, or both?Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy.Pedro Almodóvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment film directors who have worked continuously in Spain since the 1930s.As early as 1943, former Republicans and Nationalists were collaborating in Spain to promote the visual arts, irrespective of the artists' political views.Censorship can benefit literature.Memory is not the same thing as history.Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe--wrongly--that under Franco's fascist dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or...