Note that there was no magic to these photographs, they were just chucking cats in the air.

Dalí soon developed a more apolitical stance, refusing to publicly denounce fascism. In 1934, André Breton accused him of being sympathetic to Hitler and Dalí narrowly avoided being expelled from the group.[215] In 1935 Dalí wrote a letter to Breton suggesting that non-white races should be enslaved. [216] After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Dalí avoided taking a public stand for or against the Republic. [85] However, immediately after Franco's victory in 1939, Dalí praised Catholicism and the Falange and was expelled from the Surrealist group. [95]

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In 1968, Dalí stated that on Franco's death there should be no return to democracy and Spain should become an absolute monarchy.[219] In September 1975, Dalí publicly supported Franco's decision to execute three alleged Basque terrorists and repeated his support for an absolute monarchy, adding: "Personally, I'm against freedom; I'm for the Holy Inquisition.

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When King Juan Carlos visited the ailing Dalí in August 1981, Dalí told him: "I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist."[221]

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD#Politics_and_personality