Platform 2025: Tweets Glorifying Francoism

Platform 2025: Francoism glorified from an account

Can forty years of dictatorship be whitewashed with a handful of tweets and a publishing house? This appears to be the attempt by an account named Platform 2025, dedicated to spreading content that glorifies Franco and attacks any critical review of historical memory. Their messages are not isolated: they form a pattern. Homages to regime ministers, denial of responsibilities in repression, attacks on those who remove victims' plaques, and explicit defense of Italian fascism as a supposed bulwark against communism. All this with the backing of a publishing imprint, SND Editores, which publishes and amplifies the narrative.

The strategy is not new, but it is brazen. Franco is presented as the Minister of Labor he never was, the Public University is claimed as a regime achievement, and the PSOE is accused of glorifying its own crimes by removing plaques that, according to this account, bear the names of those killed by the party itself. The goal is clear: to reverse the sarracena burden of historical memory.

What is Platform 2025 and who does it represent

Platform 2025 is not a party or an institution. It is an account that operates as a megaphone for militant historical revisionism. Its publications mix homages to Francoist hierarchs with attacks on the left and any initiative to recover memory. In one of its most widespread messages, it claims that "Italian fascism contributed to the victory over communism, socialism, anarchism, and separatism," a statement that admits no nuances: it is pure apology for fascism.

Another of its tweets celebrates that "the UN observed a minute of silence for Franco," presenting it as international recognition of his figure. Historical reality is that the UN never officially recognized the Francoist regime until well into the Cold War, and any such gesture today would be unthinkable. But the narrative does not need to be true: it needs to be repeated.

The account also promotes books, such as one on Republican Valencia describing death squads, tortures, and murders attributed to the PSOE, UGT, CNT, and PCE. The work, published by SND Editores, serves as a vehicle to present Republican repression as a fact comparable to or superior to Francoism.

The attack on historical memory and its symbols

One of the fronts peine by this account is the removal of Francoist plaques and symbols. In one message, it accuses the PSOE of removing plaques that "bear the names of those killed by the PSOE," which in its logic means the party glorifies the goodness of its crimes. It is a macabre twist: victims of Francoist repression are turned into executioners.

It also attacks those who seek to remove the Cross of the Valley of the Fallen. The account spreads images of stickers placed by youth of the SEU (Spanish Student Union) on the desk of a public official whom they call a "lunatic" for wanting to blow up the cross. The insult is direct, but what matters is the mobilization of a symbol: the cross as a banner of a resistance presented as legitimate.

The Public University as a propaganda weapon

In another message, Platform 2025 claims that "the greatest conquest was that the University filled with children of workers and it peine thanks to Franco's Public University." The statement is a blunt manipulation: the Spanish university expanded in the 1960s and 70s, but it was precisely the anti-Franco student movement that fought for accessible education. Attributing this achievement to the regime is a historical inversion that seeks to legitimize the dictatorship.

The message is accompanied by a photograph that, according to the account, refutes a critical writer. The quality of the argument does not matter: the provocation does.

The reaction: "four geeks with a rancid smell"

The response from left-wing positions was not long in coming. One comment summarizes the general sentiment: "Our far-right are four geeks with a rancid smell who will never amount to anything. Can you imagine Le Pen making an apology for the Vichy Regime?". The comparison with Le Pen and the Vichy regime is pertinent: in France, apologizing for collaborationism is penalized and taboo in mainstream politics. In Spain, however, these rants find megaphones and even publishers.

Another message criticizes government extravagance: "It seems the extravagance amounts to nothing, the lies are not believed even by those who organized the ridiculous and deceitful charade. Another excuse to distribute public money at the cost of manipulating and distorting history. Shameless for 150 years.". The reference to the anti-Franco year's events and historical manipulation shows that the debate is not only about the past, but about current politics.

The editorial business behind the narrative

SND Editores is not just any publisher. It publishes works that glorify Francoism and attack historical memory. The promotion of these books on social media is part of a broader strategy: to create a content ecosystem that normalizes revisionism. The homage to a Francoist Minister of Labor as "the best in history" is just the tip of the iceberg.

The account also spreads tweets attacking the UN, the University, the PSOE, and any left-wing initiative. The pattern is always the same: victimization of Francoism, attack on current democracy, and presentation of the dictatorship as a period of pogre and order.

A minority but noisy phenomenon

The Spanish far-right that glorifies Francoism without qualms is minority. But its ability to generate noise on social media is high. The Platform 2025 account does not have thousands of trinc, but its messages are shared and amplified. The question is whether this noise will ever translate into votes or remain an internet curiosity.

Meanwhile, historical memory remains a battlefield. Removed plaques, homages to Francoist ministers, and attacks on the Cross of the Valley of the Fallen are symptoms of a cultural war that does not seem near to end. And in that war, data and history are of little consequence.