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Yes, well.. more or less along those lines.

That was the uniform of El Movimiento Nacional ("The National Movement"), which was the official name for what previously had been called Falange Española Traditionalist y de las JONS, or FET y de las JONS (Traditionalist Spanish Falange). The very name invokes a question..

... Falange was a revolutionary movement, whereas Traditionalism (Carlism) was a reactionary one. No matter that I would agree in that José Antonio Primo de Rivera was Traditionalist at heart.

In any case, FET y de las JONS (or El Movimiento later) was the place to be if you seeked a career in the Administration. The value of it in the last years is a different question.

For example, in this picture you have Adolfo Suárez (aka The Perjurer) with the same uniform, taking his oath as Vice-Secretary of The Movement in April 1975. On July 1976 he took his second oath this time as President of the Government, betraying his previous oath, and step by step dismantling all vestiges of Franco's Regime and even using the information services in the most infamous ways to destroy any possibility of resistance.

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