"This is a generation of Spaniards raised in the wake of the civil war, hardened from living through an oppressive dictatorship." It's sad when human beings die out of negligence. I think though that the sentence above is irrelevant. Many of the elderly people who died where workers who helped create wealth for the present generation. We don't know whether they were oppressed under Franco's dictatorship. Many Spaniards after all supported that dictatorship . How Spain shamed itself
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51