"Sir: Of the evils that most demand urgent and severe remedy is the feeling, propaganda and separatist action that is being carried out by audacious minorities, who not because of being evil, but precisely because of being evil, offend the sentiment of the majority of Spaniards, especially those who live in the regions where such serious evil has manifested itself". This is the meager statement of reasons for the Decree entitled "La Represión del Separatismo" in reference to Catalanity signed by the genocidal dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera (father of the founder of Falange) on September 18, 1923. A piece of legislation that wanted to eradicate Catalan independence and which the historical archive of the BOE does not allow to see interactively.
The Decree promulgated just after the coup two days after the commemoration of the Day of the Eleventh of September 1923 that established the Military Junta as government in Spain, was designed to "purge before the virus that represents the the least confusion, the smallest misunderstanding in sentiments in which there is no need to allow them, and which no people or State conscious of its security and dignity admits or tolerates".
To do so, the decree established the death penalty for separatist "public resistance", correctional prison sentences and extremely high fines, of up to 5,000 pesetas at the time, for "the dissemination of separatist ideas through teaching, or the preaching of doctrines". As well to hoist flags that were not the Spanish one, therefore prohibiting the Senyera (Catalan flag) or prohibiting speaking in Catalan. After all, the Decree established military trials "against the unity of the homeland, when they tend to disintegrate it, reduce its strength and lower its concept, either by word, in writing, by the press or by any other mechanical or graphic means of advertising and dissemination, or for any other act or manifestation".
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