Francosim: Quite possibly the most interesting lecture/discussion I've had here so far

So I'm taking this course called Spanish History and Culture through cinema and other visual arts. We started out the semester discussing Isabel, Fernando, how Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, nothing too exciting or foreign to me in other words. This week however we started talking about the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco and I don't have words for how fascinated and awestruck I am by all of this. We talked about censorship and education during Franco's dictatorship today and it just amazes me the things that were put in textbooks and all the subliminal messages. For example, in the history section of a primary school textbook it stated something to the effect of: Franco was appointed leader after the country rose up in arms to fight for their beliefs. No mention of two parties in conflict, ie the civil war, just a national uprising which implies they were all on the same side. No mention of a golpe del estado tampoco (coup d'etat either. Rather the textbook said that Franco was appointed. I can't imagine. After class I asked my teacher if I could borrow the books she brought in as examples because I wanted to look at them more and some of the things I found in them I just can't imagine. In the one there is a section on habits and hygiene where it says it is bad to eat too much (the people were going hungry at the time mind you) or drink too much water.
Then there is the reader from the republica...
This thing was used to teach young children how to read and was published by the republican government. It is structured with words on the left page and a phrase and picture on the facing page. Nothing too extraordinary there...except consider some of the phrases used: Lenin our great teacher; the soviet union helps us; we work for the war; we fight for our culture. Something about all of this just struck me and you add in the images and well needless to say I find this all fascinating.
I cannot explain the feeling I had walking through the halls of the school with these books in my arms though. I felt like I was doing something very wrong and quickly put the books in my bag. I'm also rather nervous for what my host mom will do if she happens to see these books in my room seeing as how she grew up with all of this. I had a sincere interest and so I borrowed them but I can't help but have this nagging feeling that there is something wrong with having them.