On 05 August 1939, thirteen young women were executed by a Francoist firing squad just after the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War . Their execution was part of a massive execution campaign known as the "saca de agosto" , which included 43 young men (among them a fourteen-year-old). Las trece rosas
“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