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# Salvador Dalí's statement after Franco had five people executed in 1975
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- Published: 2025-08-10T07:32:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:41:37.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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"Personally, I am against freedom; I am for the Holy Inquisition"

**Salvador Dalí**

Context: Dalí made this remark after Franco, in 1975, had executed three members of the Anti-Fascist Patriotic Revolutionary Front and two members of the organisation Free Basque Country, all of them branded terrorists. Protests against the Spanish government broke out in many countries, and Spain's membership of the UN was thrown into question.

*Photo: Dalí through the lens of Philippe Halsman, the founding father of surrealism in photography, 1943*