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Franco wanted one Spain under one flag, and he didn't allow all of the Galicia, Catalonia, Pais Vasco, Asturias, the South, nobody to speak their regional languages, to eat their regional foods.

But under Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from the end of that country’s civil war in 1939 until his death in 1975, confraternities experienced a revival.

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After Franco’s death in 1975, Spain sought to balance its integration into the European Union, dominated by France, Germany, and the UK, and aligning itself with the US-led NATO alliance.

But in 1975, the year of Franco’s death, Polonio returned to music via Barcelona’s Phonos Electronic Music Laboratory, once again free to invent and reinvent Spanish electronic music.

After the death of Franco, his regime remained in place before its weakness and the clamour for change led to democratic elections in 1977, with the creation of a new constitution the following year.