Some of my relatives grew up during the peak of Salazars rule and they said two days after the revolution their town got their first Television and said it was the most surreal moment in their lives. Gives me goosebumps
@@saoirsecdoherty Dude, Portugal is kind of opposite nordic-style man =P. In the first years after the revolution the socialist goverment nationalized all the industry, we have never done that in Sweden (or Norway/Denmark), we are free market societies. There are 5 million other differences.
@@femcel_estia8013 Look, if you really have private companies and a free market, then those companies should not be able to compete if those prices are as high as you say. I hear Portugal has a lot of pressure on it's government, is your purchase tax higher? More tax on those companies (which leads to higher prices), carbon taxes? What's going on?
@@GabrielNicho I have no idea but a lot of natural monopolies are being privatized like railways and pipewater It's not like competitors will build new railways or pipe systems when there's existing ones Soo there's realy no competition on that kind of stuff I feel like natural monopolies are among the few things that should be nationalized
I lived in Portugal in 1991 and taught two lovely men, Jose and Jorge. On 24 April 1974 Jose had received his call up papers and his team, Sporting, had lost in the semi-final of the European Cup Winners Cup. Understandably he was very sad. The next day his life changed. i was in tears when he told me the story. Viva Portugal!!
Can we stop for a minute and appreciate what a good level of English people talking there have? And those weren't all high ranking officials, many of them were ordinary people and soldiers... That's not common for a country like Portugal in the 70's...
The interviewer chose people who spoke English. It wasn't a random sample. I read that Portugal was one of the less educated countries in Europe because Salazar didn't invest in schools.
@@lwx1 you are correct, it's easier to control uneducated people that's why he wanted that With the years things have changed and the new generation is very well educated, most the older people aren't tho
its not ironic.... French was the language of culture and art and English was the business language- People in Portuhal have no subtitles and many people even if they dont know how to read and write or only have fourth grade education can still get by! Its the Portuguese way. Go to Spain and even today there is a language barrier @@saa82vik
only a small minority spoke English. Because of Salazar oppression 60 %of Portugals population could not read or write. And definitely not speak English
erika hammer ramalho I disagree with you , nao sei se falas portugues por isso vou.te responder em ingles. Portugese education has always included foreign languages as an obligatory lesson ..especially in the Salazar era. The fact that there were indeed many illiterals , had nothing to do with that dictator.But it had everything to do with Portugese mentality of that era.You can still find Some illiteral people in Portugal, especially in rural areas. But he had definitly a part in the honger part , and prosecution and exhilement of hundreds if not thousends of oppossition members and Anyone suspected of anti-Salazar thaughts. It brought Portugal in a state of paranoia where you could denounce you neighbour to the PIDE ( Salazars secret police ) if you didnt like him and tell them he was a communist or a revolutionary, and he would be tortured and exhiled to one of the colonies. This was the saddest page of Portugese history , after slavery and colonizations off course.He was a racist, a dictator , oppressor without a doubt...But Education in Portugal under Salazar, was exemplary. We should have never killed Our king and his son.Viva a monarquia!!
This is an excellent Documentary. My family lived through the Salazar regime. I came to Canada at the age of 9, I would be sent to the Colonies to fight a useless war.
Yes,in fact.Wars are just loss but sometimes were needed,that one not for money or prestige but for our honour,we could hand up 97% of our past State,just for offenses to our people plus we never gave independences without fighting over it,was excessive i know,the human bodycount but we had been outraged in 1961 in Baixa do Cassange Massacre with thousands of Portuguese setlers dead.The modus operandi of the Rebels made our Leader take draconic measures,too.I had 3 uncles fighting there in Africa,only my father had stay as millitary in Portugal,only my father side,not all family.All those traumatic issues that i saw...😔
Useless? How else was Portugal supposed to remain geopolitically independent without oil, or wood, or coal, or gas, or farmland lol It wasn't, and it isn't it's a pawn of bigger powers now, no real will of it's own, it doesn't matter, it's an irrelevant poor state that owes more money than it'll ever be able to pay back
I’m an American and I’ve been living in Portugal for the last two years, hoping to obtain permanent residency and eventually citizenship. If I can pass the Portuguese language class lol. I watched this documentary and was quite moved. I think I would’ve been around 14 when the revolution happened. I also like that they have named their famous bridge the 24 April in honor of this momentous occasion rather than naming it for a person. I find that when we name monuments for people we are idolizing them and that’s the beginning of propaganda and etc. People shouldn’t be put into iconic status. Butcevents of freedom and overcoming oppression Should definitely be memorialized and celebrated.
FYI, the bridge was built during the dictatorship & was then named Ponte Salazar after the dictator. The name was changed after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
As a foreigner, you probably don't have a good perspective on this. Even Portuguese people often don't. If you are interested, there's a lot more to the story to dig into, as in all historical events. There are complications, details, and perspectives that are forgotten or deliberately ignored.. With this revolution, Portugal moved in the right direction, but romanticizing it too much has been a source of many problems. (WIth that said, there are also those on the extreme-right who blame everything on the revolution. To be fair, before the dictatorship, Portugal already had problems, it was already poorer than other European countries. And the dictatorship suppressed moderate political movements, so when the revolution happened, the USSR-funded communists appeared as the strongest force)
I enjoyed this documentary very much. I am very happy it's available on UA-cam! Whatever problems or biases it has, this report does a very good job conveying the sense of elation in the crowds, and mentions some unease about the future, and generally gave a good first glimpse to me as a person who has never heard about this revolution before. Now I am interested enough to look up Wikipedia and watch a couple other videos from other sources, to find out what came of it in the next 50 years.
It’s very strange to see European countries like this and Spain back in the day. It feels like I’m watching a documentary on the Middle East. I wouldn’t expect this at all. Thankful these are uploaded other wise I’d never know about it. Never learned this stuff in school 🤦🏻♂️
Because they know that all intelligent and educated people (unlike the people commenting here) everywhere in the world speak English. Regardless of what country it is. As you can see in this video it is true. Also, the reporter is a television reporter from a television station whose viewers are English. No point in broadcasting a program if your viewers dont understand whats being said.
Thats called "making a TV program" which was scripted, so they spoke to the intellectuals and it is easy to tell from their accents that they seem to have even learnt English at maybe top schools in England., ast hey have an R.P. accent. If it was a German TV program and they spoke German, it would have been the same. The "upper class" or educated class, spoke English. Just a fact
Very good! I really appreciate that this is something recognized by the rest of the world. This might be a good example for the years to come, because the world tendes to take power from the people, when people are the power of the world.
because the people who changed Portugal back then aren't in the condition to create another revolution, we are. Step up if you feel something's wrong with your country.
@@hugoc1861 Amen, brother. Southern Communists are the worst example of this - ALWAYS serving foreign powers. Loyalist military units should've opened fire, god damn it.
What people? This was the military, the same military had installed the dictatorship to begin with 40 years prior lol all revolutions in Portugal happened because of the armed forces, the "people" were never involved or ever consulted
Look at the little "dah" communists, like LosBerkos, so ignorant … doesnt even know that communist dicktatorship's butchered more people than all civilians deaths put together, since the beginning of History. Sorry, but your weak and old dead political philosophy is well-done since generations ago.
a lot of fucktards in comments...u gotta ask ur daddy's to use more lube...looks like it's hurting when u sit...and as sure as shit, americans and russians are the last to talk, u fucks, deal with ur dictators, and leave the normal people be....
How fortunate are we to witness this beautiful transition from Dictatorship to modern free Portugal. Viva the Revolution of the people. We are the power.
And just recently after all this time..Portugal is considered one of the best and better democracies of all the world..i think in 8 or 7 place. Thank you captains
essa foi boa... mais de metade da populaçao nem vota, so votam os funcionarios publicos o que significa que de facto somos uma ditadura socialista, um bando de parasitas a sugar o sangue ao resto, um bando de escravos com os impostos mais altos do mundo.
@@schopen-hauer Bora lá camarada, revolução!! Quem precisa de direitos humanos e liberdade de expressão com iluminados como tu a liderar a elite intelectual? ✊
AfricanLion65 bullshit. I’m from Angola and nobody ever spoke jack sht, Mozambique was exactly the same thing. People knew English through the American and British songs, like Elvis, Beatles and so on.
@@zoltron30 Believe it or not, they're many Portuguese people who lived through this time still alive, and my parents luckily being apart of this group. My dad is always mentioning how these Vacinees are literally a throwback, and almost a copy of this era, and how no one is free. He even says it was better to live in the Salazar era than nowadays, because of how horrid these restrictions are, and I agree with him. Not much of a difference. As day by day goes, it's becoming a reality, and as my parents state, back in their day people would do proper protests, nowadays people just accept everything.
@@o.portista if your father believes salazar times were better than nowadays he truly didn't live through those times. How old was he? How high on the social ladder was he? Most portuguese people had no education, no food (horrific diets) young boys being killed overseas due to a horrific stupid and pointless war. How is any of this better than Portugal nowadays? Stop it with these baffling and reductive comparisons
@@Orinap My dad was in his teens during these times, and worked at his family farm/as a fisherman, and never had the chance to go to high school, neither him or any of my family during those times, so I'd like to say he was almost at the very bottom. These times were liveable, and Portugal, was never abused. Look at Portugal now, each year we're getting worse and worse, losing more and more. Everyone has their own opions, and he truly lived in those times, unlike you, or your parents most likely. There was stuff he disagreed with, but look at Portugal now. What you read online or on a book, is nothing compared to what you live. There was both positive and negative parts. He made the a comparison between the Vaccines/Prime COVID to back then, and you can't lie, the idea was almost the same. Either do something or lose stuff/be silenced. Think before you speak.
@Muchen Tuchen wtf reason do I need to give a fuck about spelling when commenting on a video? I'd love to see you say something to a nigga like me from outside the safety of being behind a key board.. LMFAO
I can't believe that despite being barely 12 years old, (turned 12 on 4th May 1974) that I witnessed this magnificent revolution in Portugal's history! It wasn't totally blood free thanks to the spiteful PIDE (Portuguese Staci equivalent) that murdered 5 Portuguese citizens demonstrating outside PIDE's building.😢 We lived in the outskirts of Lisbon, and I was just happy to have a school off day, but this day will live on forever in my mind. It changed Portugal drastically and gave us freedoms only dreamed of. My dad was in the thick of it. He had left home at his usual 4:30 in the AM to commute to his 6:00 AM start job in Lisbon downtown. We were close to the neighborhood of Pontinha, (where the military commanders had planned the coup) he immediately realized something serious (yet hopeful) was going on. There were military vehicles and military personnel everywhere already at 5:00 AM. Dad was in the Portuguese political underground, and expecting something like this to soon happen, so we were very relieved when he finally came home later in the day, happy, safe and sound. Soon after, the political instability of my country brought fear to many including dad. Afraid of an impending civil war, my dad and mom gave up everything, sold everything and we moved out to the USA, where I lived close to 40 years, having finally returned home 6 years ago, just like my sister. Now that I am back home, I so appreciate the courage, risk and sacrifice of our military, true heroes along with the 5 murdered civilians. They died for our freedom, may they RIP. Long live freedom and long live ❤Portugal❤
Good job old chap! Another Brit/ American polluting a comment section that has nothing to do with their garbage politics with the intellectual equivalent of a mccheese 🙂 #Trump2020 #amirightfellowfreedomfighter
I was 14 years old, my family suffered lots because of the fascist government we had. People power! and we had a peaceful transition to democracy. The people of Portugal are just incredible peaceful!
I do hope we will never turn away from the road of Democracy. I'm sorry your or anyone else's family suffered because of 40 years of Human Rights and hundreds of years before that. We were not the brightest people... I like to think we do, truly, care about it (at least these past generations) but sometimes, i think were just not the best at showing it.
In fact he had 6 dead and dozens of wounded at Pide Building at Maria Cardoso Street.The Pide Agents fire to the youth protesters plenty of rounds and when the Army went there,they fired again,one of the dead was a Universitary Student from Azores.Another one is Unknow,they lost the Coroner Register.
Francisco Balsemao as an energetic young man at 16:00! A few years later he became Prime Minister and also founded SIC, one of the first private-owned TV stations in Portugal.
Champalimaud was our Gold man,even with State anger left us an huge and the most important legacy,our unique Steal Mill Company that Cavaco had managed to disrupt and sell by few beans to Malaysians and Spanish.Our big legacy from Industrialization had almost gone,maybe 90% of it and few had been added.
Portugal's Bilderberg "ambassador" for many years... Like the old saying, make a revolution so that things don't change...much. The families that ruled with Salazar pretty much still rule localy this, now EU province.
I'm portuguese and I was born 20 years after the revolution, my parents were children at the time and they just have small memories of that. But my grandparents tell me many memories about revolution and the previous regime (Estado Novo). One of my grandparents was in Lisbon on 25th April and he saw the soldiers and the tanks at the streets.
Hey you gotta love how your grandfather was apart of the revolution, however got caught and tortured and your grandmother and father are shunned and attacked to the point where at some point they were on the run and then after the revolution are considered heroes. How things turn out
My family didn't like Salazar but none of them were involved with this. They were like the centrist liberals here in America that don't want to cause trouble. I'm a bit different in that I actually want to be part of a new American revolution. Trump is acting a bit like Salazar so I have an idea of what to expect
GabrielNicho Both of my avôs and avós lived in Portugal during Salazar. They left before the revolution. However, my avô from my dad’s side of the family says that it was bad time. Salazar was a dictator. The revolution was righteous.
@@gonk534 The Revolution was stupid. Although the colonial war was unfortunate (Salazar would have been better off giving independence to Angola and Mozambique in return for joining a Lusophone free trade pact), Portugal has been worse off geopolitically and spiritually as a result of the 1974 Carnation Revolution. Portugal takes orders from Brussels and the Catholic Christian faith that defined and civilized Portugal has receded as it’s people have become indifferent and in certain cases even apostasized.
The Carnation Revolution proved to ignorant Americans who thinks that socialism means dictatorship that socialism in fact turned Portugal away from dictatorship to a democracy.....
Socialism is a loaded word now. Socialism means different things depending on the context. Which is why I stay away from politics and most political discussions. People get hung up on semnatics, on definitions....rather than on serving people and meeting human needs.
Yeah right! By September 28th 1974, they banned all the right wing parties from competing in the “free elections”. The year that followed this coup saw more political prisoners than the 40 years of dictatorship before it… thankfully the military eventually came to it’s senses.
The vast majority of correspondents sent to cover a big sudden world wide event from foreign countries don't usually know the language of the sudden event in that country . They try to employ interpreters, aka translators but when its sudden that is difficult . And they may not have the budget to hire human translators
My granma was from Mirandela, so a portuguese born living in Brazil most of her life. Thousands of them came in the 1930's, most of them illiterate, longing to move from a medieval outdated reality to a new one. And it's unbelievable to think today that, leaving Europe, Brazil was their goal. The Carnation Revolution was a such a happy episode, it gave a hopeless people for more than 300 years a bright new beginning. She felt it, and I'm glad she was right.
@@Batnoodles Is that so? Why there were millions of portuguese ppl moving to Brazil till the 1970's and to France or the UK after that? The Estado Novo was aiming to restore the glory Portugal lost 400 years before and it never did (search about Portuguese Colonial War and you'll figure out). The Carnation Revolution pointed it was about time to move on.
Do we ever stop to think that in the span of 1-2 generations, the children of european migrants to the Americas, brazil/argentina/usa/canada etc. are now dreaming of moving back to Europe
Bizarre that Thames TV would make documentaries then that the BBC wouldn't touch with a bargepole now! Nowadays, the UK gov and it's media would be backing Salazar! Though, as others have said, it was a coup, not a revolution. The biggest change for Portugal was joining the EU ten years later!
The Portuguese revolution is the opposite of the State Coup on Chile 1973 Setember when the Pinochet's Army split on Santiago streets.. Here in Portugal it was the same But....because the colonial war, and two youngs generations lost, questions in the military classes etc Put the 3 forces on the streets in that day on april 1974 One year after Chile...
No . Allende was retard who literally modern day Maduro . He destroyed his country with inflation and suppressed speech and other. Imagine being overthrown by a neolib lmao The revolution in Portugal was a long process , it was clear if anything had gone wrong then it would've been a dictatorship just with leftist characteristic.
@@fironfiron8843 shut up and stop tell lie on a deadman Yes Allande was socialist but was interferrance of America destabilize that country And yes Pinochet did do some economic capitalist that did prsopers chile But allende wasn't oppressing and killing the chileans like Pinochet
Portugal was paid in pure Gold 22kt to contunue the War,we just stop it because the lack of military hi-tec,if was today,we could do it even eficient than before.They need us back but in peace and progress but we dont want it back in their model,we just go if we impose our leadership.Vön Portucale 🐱🏍
@@TheSpiritOfTheTimes Hi Reddit, do you you mean, the President that advocated and successfully got rid of petty apartheid laws as well as allowed for greater economic activity in white South Africa was a "racist degenerate"? Oh yeah, PW was a real monster.
@@pieterwillembotha6719 He indeed was, a moral monster and degenerate, despised worldwide at his time and now forgotten, forgotten by choice even by his own people lol.
Yes, we made a mistake and didn't get rid of those cancerous metasthesis for good. Now they're back in Chega party and poisoning the minds of the portuguese youth with their lies.
The three military dictatorships of the post-war period that came into existence across the so-called Free - Western Europe=> 1. Spain 2. Portugal and last but not the least was 3. Greece
10:39 even a PIDE's wife was ileterate, the kid is transcribing whatever his fascist father was requesting (tooth paste) this is not a contrast, as I bet a regime opositor arrested would not have such privileges..
Why is this comment section an open hub for maniacs? As pessoas viviam vidas horríveis e não tinham nem condições nem acesso a informação! Claro que hoje em dia estamos muito longe do ideal, mas hoje vive-se uma realidade de um país desenvolvido onde há trabalhos para todos (apesar de ainda muito injustos em vencimentos). Onde todos nós temos acesso à internet e todas as suas utilidades e onde temos livre circulação dentro da Europa (não estamos limitados à área do nosso país e se precisarmos podemos procurar melhores condições fora sem grandes dificuldades). Somos Portugueses e Europeus! E felizes!
"hoje vive-se uma realidade de um país desenvolvido onde há trabalhos para todos" 1974 foi o primeiro ano em que se recolheram dados relativos ao desemprego bruto -- 67,5 milhares -- continuou em crescendo até 1979. Mesmo que o salto inicial se devesse à chegada de ex-colonos, desde então, a população desempregada bruta nunca voltou a valores de 74. O mais baixo (tanto bruto como percentual) foi em 92, e mesmo assim foi mais do dobro (194,1 milhares). Não se verificaram mudanças estruturais: mesmo ignorando os valores altíssimos da crise de 2008, os valores percentuais atuais continuam acima dos de 92. | www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Popula%c3%a7%c3%a3o+desempregada+total+e+por+tipo+de+desemprego+-358 www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Taxa+de+desemprego+total+e+por+sexo+(percentagem)-550 www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Popula%c3%a7%c3%a3o+residente+total+e+por+grandes+grupos+et%c3%a1rios-513 "Onde todos nós temos acesso à internet e todas as suas utilidades" Isso é suposto provar alguma coisa? Em 1974 não havia nenhum país com acesso generalizado à Internet. Só no final dos anos oitenta é que apareceram os primeiros operadores de Internet e só após o final da Guerra fria (anos 90) é que a World Wide Web foi generalizada nalguns países. | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet web.archive.org/web/20160305130609/www.indra.com/homepages/spike/isp.html "e onde temos livre circulação dentro da Europa (não estamos limitados à área do nosso país e se precisarmos podemos procurar melhores condições fora sem grandes dificuldades)" Foi devido a pessoas como José Gonçalo Correia de Oliveira e Ruy Teixeira Guerra que fomos membros fundadores da EFTA e nos tornámos membros associados da CEE em 1959 e 1962. Para que conste, a livre circulação (que surgiu em 2004) incluir-nos-ia nestas condições. | pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Gon%C3%A7alo_Correia_de_Oliveira en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association#Free_movement_of_people_within_EFTA_and_the_EU/EEA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%E2%80%99_Rights_Directive "Somos Portugueses e Europeus!" Sempre o fomos, graças a Deus.
Desenvolvidíssimos! Somos dos países que menos cresce economicamente na Europa e se continuarmos este ritmo em 20 anos passamos a 2 país mais pobre da Europa. Factual
Muitos dos comentários contra o 25 de Abril vêm dos que que tinham algum privilégio (ou familiares deles) à época. Quem podia apoiar uma polícia política ou não consegue conviver com uma opinião diferente? Só quem tem tiques ditatoriais. E nem por ouvirem neste documentário a desgraça porque passavam as tropas portuguesas no ultramar, nem assim aprendem. Depois, deturpam factos, culpando o próprio povo pelo analfabetismo existente, como se as pessoas tivessem dinheiro para mandar os filhos estudar e seguir para um curso superior. Não percebem que a pobreza material trás consigo a miséria de espírito que lhes poderia bloquear alguma mentalidade sobre a importância de estudar. Também se esquecem que uma mulher não podia viajar fora do país sem autorização do marido, muito igual ao que fazem os muçulmanos. O 25 de Abril não foi para fazer um país rico mas sim para acabar com a guerra colonial (íamos perder e bater em retirada tal como os americanos no Vietname) e para repor as liberdades democráticas. O que aconteceu depois, foi o resultado de muita confusão e do envolvimento da extrema direita e da extrema esquerda.
Soares never was law professor because he was always from the oposition instead he was a layer that defended the political prisioners in the infamous political trials.
South African, miss all my porra buddies. I can say Mozambique and Angola did not turn out better with both only reaching some level of peace over the last decade or so.
probably correlation with the fact that water fluoridation is insanely high in USA, not so much in other places... Dumb them down, make them submissive...
I'm surprised they didn't interview Amy pro regime people. They interviewed Somosa in their Nicaragua war documentary or royalists in their Iranian documentary
Portuguese soldiers fighting in Mozambique had no stomach for a war in Africa, they stayed in barracks and where fearful to patrol and confront the enemy. They wanted the coup to end them being sent to war in Africa.
The Day Portugal was sold to the corruption after years of growth! A sad story about this tiny country. If you disagree then explain to me how 3years after this revolution the country was bankrupt and at that moment of the revolution was one of the best economies in the world.
Liar! Portugal was the poorest country of ALL Europe including the countries beyond the Iron Curtain under the communist boot. Our HDI metrics were the same as some poor countries in Africa and our reputation was destroyed by the multiple genocides commited in Africa. Queen Elisabeth II didn't want to visit Portugal not to be associated with the last fascist tyrant in Europe that kept his own people under suffocating oppression and staggering poverty. The Quen was convinced to visit Portugal by her advisors only because of NATO partnership. You are a liar, a supporter of genocides and oppression.
The end of empire, the end of Portuguese relevance globally and now Portugese cant even afford to live in their own capital city. Interesting how things turn out.
Some people holding communist flags !!!😱😱😱😱😂😂😂when they fought for freedom !!!! Really ???? 😂😂😂😂😂Since when communism is a sign of FREEDON ???????? Example today Cuba , North Korea amount others
Tem que ver as diversas situações à luz da História. O movimento que derrubou o ditador cubano Batista, apoiado pelos EUA, foi empurrado para os braços da URSS pelas sanções e tentativas de golpes norte americanas. A Coreia do Norte, tal como existe, é uma criação da Guerra Fria, com tanta responsabilidade americana como soviética. Na altura, o PCP era a mais antiga e principal força de resistência à ditadura fascista em Portugal.
Oyyyy veyy! Shut it down! I actually did some digging to try and find if he was a heeb. Tengarrinha is a very very uncommon surname, so you can't really find much from that, but according to Sephardicgen, all of his other surnames are common among Jews here in Portugal.
My ideology is more inclined to the right, eventhou i don't agree with 25th of April and carnation revolution (in the way it was orchestrated aswell as some of the outcomes) I feel that I should (and I did) like the video. Above every opinion, it is an awesome peace of historical footage, in which is present a complete independent interview that isn't inclined to any political ideology, it just faces the happenings and is focused on the variaty of prespectives. The interviewer knew his place as the interviewee had perfect consciousness of how fragile and uncertain the national situations was after the revolution. Apart from the video I really am desapointed with the knowledge of some of my compatriots on the comments section. The ones criticizing Salazar forgotten that he was already dead since 1970 and the one in power was Marcelo Caetano, that was much concerned in stability and make a gradual democracy. The military took the opportunity to Launched an attack on a more fragilized regime, along side with some less known reasons. Salazar wasn't an angel nor was the devil some are pointing, and in these century the Portuguese public chose Salazar as the Greater Portuguese ever (personally I don't agree) in a public voting program for some reason. Like carnation revolution wasn't the greatest happening nor the most horrible one happening to Portugal. Things happened the way they happened and that's it, now we should face our nowdays problems (always with historical conscienceness) and improve each day our capacities preserving our identity and values like we've been doing for almost 900 years since we are a nation state!!!
Rafael Abreu Salazar may have done a few good things but he was still a dictator and oppressed people. The problem with Caetano was that he did not democratize enough and did not solve the Colonial War. The Guinea Bissau war was a disaster and Portugal had no reason to try to hold on to that territory. The best solution for the Colonial War would have been giving up on Guinea Bissau, Angola and Mozambique while keeping Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, East Timor and potentially also Cabinda. Caetano did not do that but he should have. And because of that, the succeeding government went for a too radical decolonization process. Mário Soares once said he had always thought Cape Verde should not have become independent. He also didn't expect the decolonization, especially of Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor to be so fast.
@@ricardolindo975 one could also say that cape verde and Sao Tome and Principe have done better than expected. As for East Timor, they should've brought it under Australian protection first before independence.
u know what i wish? that a police car drives to ur house in the middle of night and take u away with no explanation. takes u and locks u up...maybe then u'll have a different opinion...
Some of my relatives grew up during the peak of Salazars rule and they said two days after the revolution their town got their first Television and said it was the most surreal moment in their lives. Gives me goosebumps
@@saoirsecdoherty Dude, Portugal is kind of opposite nordic-style man =P. In the first years after the revolution the socialist goverment nationalized all the industry, we have never done that in Sweden (or Norway/Denmark), we are free market societies. There are 5 million other differences.
@@GabrielNicho a fuck ton of industries are privatized now tho wich fucked up theyre prices and theyre now way more expensive
@@femcel_estia8013 Look, if you really have private companies and a free market, then those companies should not be able to compete if those prices are as high as you say. I hear Portugal has a lot of pressure on it's government, is your purchase tax higher? More tax on those companies (which leads to higher prices), carbon taxes? What's going on?
My mum and family watched the moon landing (Apollo 11) on the neighbour's B&W TV, he was a policeman and they could afford one :)
@@GabrielNicho I have no idea but a lot of natural monopolies are being privatized like railways and pipewater
It's not like competitors will build new railways or pipe systems when there's existing ones Soo there's realy no competition on that kind of stuff
I feel like natural monopolies are among the few things that should be nationalized
I lived in Portugal in 1991 and taught two lovely men, Jose and Jorge. On 24 April 1974 Jose had received his call up papers and his team, Sporting, had lost in the semi-final of the European Cup Winners Cup. Understandably he was very sad. The next day his life changed. i was in tears when he told me the story. Viva Portugal!!
I remember that! I was listening to the match report on the radio.
Can we stop for a minute and appreciate what a good level of English people talking there have? And those weren't all high ranking officials, many of them were ordinary people and soldiers... That's not common for a country like Portugal in the 70's...
ironic, isn't it?
The interviewer chose people who spoke English. It wasn't a random sample. I read that Portugal was one of the less educated countries in Europe because Salazar didn't invest in schools.
@@lwx1 you are correct, it's easier to control uneducated people that's why he wanted that
With the years things have changed and the new generation is very well educated, most the older people aren't tho
Well said!
its not ironic.... French was the language of culture and art and English was the business language- People in Portuhal have no subtitles and many people even if they dont know how to read and write or only have fourth grade education can still get by! Its the Portuguese way. Go to Spain and even today there is a language barrier @@saa82vik
that glorious day in April, my father was a captain of April and a war veteran, I owe my life to them THANK YOU VIVA PORTUGAL !!
Vergonha, o teu pai é uma marioneta ou um anti-português, de qual forma é um traidor
@@bernardopratta3076 tem tu vergonhas seu ignorante. Volta para o fascismo, talvez assim deixes de ter liberdade para escrever a merda que queres. 🤡
Do you know if the Generals participated or if it was just the troops? Obrigado!
Sabia lá ele o que tava a fazer...
@@hugoc1861Incha facho
Extraordinary footage from a historic moment in Portugal!
people spoke english at that time in portugal!! fodasse i'm surprised caralho.
best comentário no midlle destes todos.. congrats carailhou!xD
its not that surprising we have a 632 year old alliance with great britan so speaking english was and still is higly favorable
only a small minority spoke English. Because of Salazar oppression 60 %of Portugals population could not read or write. And definitely not speak English
erika hammer ramalho I disagree with you , nao sei se falas portugues por isso vou.te responder em ingles. Portugese education has always included foreign languages as an obligatory lesson ..especially in the Salazar era. The fact that there were indeed many illiterals , had nothing to do with that dictator.But it had everything to do with Portugese mentality of that era.You can still find Some illiteral people in Portugal, especially in rural areas. But he had definitly a part in the honger part , and prosecution and exhilement of hundreds if not thousends of oppossition members and Anyone suspected of anti-Salazar thaughts. It brought Portugal in a state of paranoia where you could denounce you neighbour to the PIDE ( Salazars secret police ) if you didnt like him and tell them he was a communist or a revolutionary, and he would be tortured and exhiled to one of the colonies. This was the saddest page of Portugese history , after slavery and colonizations off course.He was a racist, a dictator , oppressor without a doubt...But Education in Portugal under Salazar, was exemplary. We should have never killed Our king and his son.Viva a monarquia!!
The Colonial War in Africa made me curious about Portuguese history.
thats some quality reporting right there...gotta love the 70's
Yes
Peak Freedom
downhill since
It’s wonderful to have these archival footages, I am not Portuguese but I am living in the Azores and like to earn historical facts…thank you
This is an excellent Documentary. My family lived through the Salazar regime. I came to Canada at the age of 9, I would be sent to the Colonies to fight a useless war.
Yes,in fact.Wars are just loss but sometimes were needed,that one not for money or prestige but for our honour,we could hand up 97% of our past State,just for offenses to our people plus we never gave independences without fighting over it,was excessive i know,the human bodycount but we had been outraged in 1961 in Baixa do Cassange Massacre with thousands of Portuguese setlers dead.The modus operandi of the Rebels made our Leader take draconic measures,too.I had 3 uncles fighting there in Africa,only my father had stay as millitary in Portugal,only my father side,not all family.All those traumatic issues that i saw...😔
John, did you fight in Angola?
Useless? How else was Portugal supposed to remain geopolitically independent without oil, or wood, or coal, or gas, or farmland lol It wasn't, and it isn't it's a pawn of bigger powers now, no real will of it's own, it doesn't matter, it's an irrelevant poor state that owes more money than it'll ever be able to pay back
I’m an American and I’ve been living in Portugal for the last two years, hoping to obtain permanent residency and eventually citizenship. If I can pass the Portuguese language class lol. I watched this documentary and was quite moved. I think I would’ve been around 14 when the revolution happened. I also like that they have named their famous bridge the 24 April in honor of this momentous occasion rather than naming it for a person. I find that when we name monuments for people we are idolizing them and that’s the beginning of propaganda and etc. People shouldn’t be put into iconic status. Butcevents of freedom and overcoming oppression Should definitely be memorialized and celebrated.
FYI, the bridge was built during the dictatorship & was then named Ponte Salazar after the dictator. The name was changed after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
As a foreigner, you probably don't have a good perspective on this. Even Portuguese people often don't. If you are interested, there's a lot more to the story to dig into, as in all historical events. There are complications, details, and perspectives that are forgotten or deliberately ignored.. With this revolution, Portugal moved in the right direction, but romanticizing it too much has been a source of many problems.
(WIth that said, there are also those on the extreme-right who blame everything on the revolution. To be fair, before the dictatorship, Portugal already had problems, it was already poorer than other European countries. And the dictatorship suppressed moderate political movements, so when the revolution happened, the USSR-funded communists appeared as the strongest force)
I love Portugal. Hope one day we Chinese people will get freedom and democracy without bleeding.
@@MateusSilva-gr7bi Comunism is not freedom it s another form of slavery.
@@MateusSilva-gr7bi It pretended to be our saviour, but the essence of it was still dictatorship. Things never changed during these decades.
Like Macau
I enjoyed this documentary very much. I am very happy it's available on UA-cam!
Whatever problems or biases it has, this report does a very good job conveying the sense of elation in the crowds, and mentions some unease about the future, and generally gave a good first glimpse to me as a person who has never heard about this revolution before.
Now I am interested enough to look up Wikipedia and watch a couple other videos from other sources, to find out what came of it in the next 50 years.
It’s very strange to see European countries like this and Spain back in the day. It feels like I’m watching a documentary on the Middle East. I wouldn’t expect this at all. Thankful these are uploaded other wise I’d never know about it. Never learned this stuff in school 🤦🏻♂️
Facts. You'd think that never in recent history would countries like Spain, Portugal, and Italy have that kind of dark past
Spain, Portugal, Greece were all dictatorships well into the 1970’s
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The revolution put Portugal back to Europe.
@Martin Rosenberg I know about Northern Ireland and the troubles. Seems very out of place for some reason.
Very fascinating good piece of history right here!
What is the meaning of sending a correspondent to a country without him knowing a word of the local language?
Adson von Melk stupidity... kinda of normal in Anglo Saxon countries...
Its expected that all foreigners will respond in English... ✊🏴😛
Because they know that all intelligent and educated people (unlike the people commenting here) everywhere in the world speak English. Regardless of what country it is. As you can see in this video it is true. Also, the reporter is a television reporter from a television station whose viewers are English. No point in broadcasting a program if your viewers dont understand whats being said.
Anglo-Saxon arrogance
Thats called "making a TV program" which was scripted, so they spoke to the intellectuals and it is easy to tell from their accents that they seem to have even learnt English at maybe top schools in England., ast hey have an R.P. accent. If it was a German TV program and they spoke German, it would have been the same. The "upper class" or educated class, spoke English. Just a fact
I was in Portugal 🇵🇹 Lisbon during this revolution
in month of October 1974 and part of November
1974 i was 44 year younger then 2018 is now
Yes please, go back in your memories and tell what you saw, heard, felt. Thank you
Why is considered such a important event in relation to the rest of history. Please fill me in from your point of view
@Super Aggressive UA-cam Commentaryhe is a coward .
Very good!
I really appreciate that this is something recognized by the rest of the world.
This might be a good example for the years to come, because the world tendes to take power from the people, when people are the power of the world.
because the people who changed Portugal back then aren't in the condition to create another revolution, we are. Step up if you feel something's wrong with your country.
Peter Calm This reminds of whats happening in my country Sudan right now 🇸🇩❤️ Freedom feels good ❤️😍
A pure lie. What does Portugal or the proletariat upcoming gave to Portugal? Nothing pure 0. A good comunist is a dead comunist.
@@hugoc1861 Amen, brother. Southern Communists are the worst example of this - ALWAYS serving foreign powers. Loyalist military units should've opened fire, god damn it.
What people? This was the military, the same military had installed the dictatorship to begin with 40 years prior lol all revolutions in Portugal happened because of the armed forces, the "people" were never involved or ever consulted
My father was a captain of April ...............thank you dad love you always VIVA PORTUGAL
Look at the little nazi piglets oinking for fascism on a Yt video. Sorry, but your bacon is well-done since generations ago.
HockeyandTrump2017, Fuck you, fuck Trump and fuck all those who think alike. Portugal is a great country and April captains were great people.
Look at the little "dah" communists, like LosBerkos, so ignorant … doesnt even know that communist dicktatorship's butchered more people than all civilians deaths put together, since the beginning of History. Sorry, but your weak and old dead political philosophy is well-done since generations ago.
a lot of fucktards in comments...u gotta ask ur daddy's to use more lube...looks like it's hurting when u sit...and as sure as shit, americans and russians are the last to talk, u fucks, deal with ur dictators, and leave the normal people be....
POORTUGAL you mean
How fortunate are we to witness this beautiful transition from Dictatorship to modern free Portugal. Viva the Revolution of the people. We are the power.
YOU are Ignorant Sheeple!!!!!
@@mariojm1709 cala-te facho
And just recently after all this time..Portugal is considered one of the best and better democracies of all the world..i think in 8 or 7 place. Thank you captains
essa foi boa... mais de metade da populaçao nem vota, so votam os funcionarios publicos o que significa que de facto somos uma ditadura socialista, um bando de parasitas a sugar o sangue ao resto, um bando de escravos com os impostos mais altos do mundo.
@@schopen-hauer Vai para os states então
@Muchen Tuchen that has to do with what
@@schopen-hauer
Bora lá camarada, revolução!!
Quem precisa de direitos humanos e liberdade de expressão com iluminados como tu a liderar a elite intelectual? ✊
22 as in 2019
When a private speaks better English than an Officer xD
He might have grown up in Mozambique where most Portuguese knew English.
You bet.
AfricanLion65 bullshit. I’m from Angola and nobody ever spoke jack sht, Mozambique was exactly the same thing. People knew English through the American and British songs, like Elvis, Beatles and so on.
Is that matter? Translator is needed.
We todos hablamos English very OK in Portugal
I'm 19, and my parents literally grew up with this. I would love to go back in time, and just see how it was back in the day here.
Are your parents still alive? What do they think about what's going on now with the vaccine mandates?
@@zoltron30 Believe it or not, they're many Portuguese people who lived through this time still alive, and my parents luckily being apart of this group. My dad is always mentioning how these Vacinees are literally a throwback, and almost a copy of this era, and how no one is free. He even says it was better to live in the Salazar era than nowadays, because of how horrid these restrictions are, and I agree with him. Not much of a difference. As day by day goes, it's becoming a reality, and as my parents state, back in their day people would do proper protests, nowadays people just accept everything.
I was 9 years old when the 25 de abril happen I was over joyed
so was my parents and family in Portugal we were finally freeom to speak our mind
@@o.portista if your father believes salazar times were better than nowadays he truly didn't live through those times. How old was he? How high on the social ladder was he? Most portuguese people had no education, no food (horrific diets) young boys being killed overseas due to a horrific stupid and pointless war. How is any of this better than Portugal nowadays? Stop it with these baffling and reductive comparisons
@@Orinap My dad was in his teens during these times, and worked at his family farm/as a fisherman, and never had the chance to go to high school, neither him or any of my family during those times, so I'd like to say he was almost at the very bottom. These times were liveable, and Portugal, was never abused. Look at Portugal now, each year we're getting worse and worse, losing more and more. Everyone has their own opions, and he truly lived in those times, unlike you, or your parents most likely. There was stuff he disagreed with, but look at Portugal now. What you read online or on a book, is nothing compared to what you live. There was both positive and negative parts. He made the a
comparison between the Vaccines/Prime COVID to back then, and you can't lie, the idea was almost the same. Either do something or lose stuff/be silenced. Think before you speak.
My grandfather, great great uncle and several other men in my family were a part of the coop
@Muchen Tuchen wtf reason do I need to give a fuck about spelling when commenting on a video? I'd love to see you say something to a nigga like me from outside the safety of being behind a key board.. LMFAO
My great great granpas cousin was bashed to detah in prison just because they THOUGHT he had a different police opinion.
@@rjdsr it seems the descendants of his murderers still bare some animalistic hatred towards humanity
@@rjdsr How
You take pride in the fact that betrayal and treason is in your blood?
Still cant belive how my father got thru this
I can't believe that despite being barely 12 years old, (turned 12 on 4th May 1974) that I witnessed this magnificent revolution in Portugal's history! It wasn't totally blood free thanks to the spiteful PIDE (Portuguese Staci equivalent) that murdered 5 Portuguese citizens demonstrating outside PIDE's building.😢
We lived in the outskirts of Lisbon, and I was just happy to have a school off day, but this day will live on forever in my mind. It changed Portugal drastically and gave us freedoms only dreamed of.
My dad was in the thick of it. He had left home at his usual 4:30 in the AM to commute to his 6:00 AM start job in Lisbon downtown. We were close to the neighborhood of Pontinha, (where the military commanders had planned the coup) he immediately realized something serious (yet hopeful) was going on. There were military vehicles and military personnel everywhere already at 5:00 AM. Dad was in the Portuguese political underground, and expecting something like this to soon happen, so we were very relieved when he finally came home later in the day, happy, safe and sound.
Soon after, the political instability of my country brought fear to many including dad. Afraid of an impending civil war, my dad and mom gave up everything, sold everything and we moved out to the USA, where I lived close to 40 years, having finally returned home 6 years ago, just like my sister.
Now that I am back home, I so appreciate the courage, risk and sacrifice of our military, true heroes along with the 5 murdered civilians. They died for our freedom, may they RIP. Long live freedom and long live ❤Portugal❤
"Censorship was at an end, freedom of speech was restored." So Portugal in 1974 was ahead of the UK in 2019.
Wuh?
Good job old chap!
Another Brit/ American polluting a comment section that has nothing to do with their garbage politics with the intellectual equivalent of a mccheese 🙂
#Trump2020 #amirightfellowfreedomfighter
Good to see the great portuguese writer Jose Cardoso Pires so young.
I was 14 years old, my family suffered lots because of the fascist government we had. People power! and we had a peaceful transition to democracy. The people of Portugal are just incredible peaceful!
I do hope we will never turn away from the road of Democracy. I'm sorry your or anyone else's family suffered because of 40 years of Human Rights and hundreds of years before that. We were not the brightest people... I like to think we do, truly, care about it (at least these past generations) but sometimes, i think were just not the best at showing it.
Mas que fascismo?! 🤔
In fact he had 6 dead and dozens of wounded at Pide Building at Maria Cardoso Street.The Pide Agents fire to the youth protesters plenty of rounds and when the Army went there,they fired again,one of the dead was a Universitary Student from Azores.Another one is Unknow,they lost the Coroner Register.
Hey what do you think about what's happening now with these vaccine mandates?
@@zoltron30Portugal had no vaccine mandates.
Incrível arquivo, muito importante para os países africanos colonizados por Portugal conhecerem essa parte da história
Francisco Balsemao as an energetic young man at 16:00! A few years later he became Prime Minister and also founded SIC, one of the first private-owned TV stations in Portugal.
Champalimaud was our Gold man,even with State anger left us an huge and the most important legacy,our unique Steal Mill Company that Cavaco had managed to disrupt and sell by few beans to Malaysians and Spanish.Our big legacy from Industrialization had almost gone,maybe 90% of it and few had been added.
@@MrKlipstar Follow the money
Everything done from 85 onwards directly comes from Bruxelles.
Portugal's Bilderberg "ambassador" for many years... Like the old saying, make a revolution so that things don't change...much. The families that ruled with Salazar pretty much still rule localy this, now EU province.
@MrKlipstar diga mais por favor
Yeah, top lad
The old bourgeoise remained, he included
Great historical document! As a portuguese this is the first time I'm watching this report in a 'brand-new' liberated country!
I'm portuguese and I was born 20 years after the revolution, my parents were children at the time and they just have small memories of that. But my grandparents tell me many memories about revolution and the previous regime (Estado Novo). One of my grandparents was in Lisbon on 25th April and he saw the soldiers and the tanks at the streets.
Força 🇵🇹 time to unleash the old portuguese bravery
We will prevail as a free country with equal rights and fraternity
25 de Abril sempre⚘
They smoked more than peaky blinders, legendary lungs
I know Im pretty randomly asking but does anyone know a good place to stream new series online?
😂😂😂
Calming the nerves.
Hey you gotta love how your grandfather was apart of the revolution, however got caught and tortured and your grandmother and father are shunned and attacked to the point where at some point they were on the run and then after the revolution are considered heroes. How things turn out
My family didn't like Salazar but none of them were involved with this. They were like the centrist liberals here in America that don't want to cause trouble. I'm a bit different in that I actually want to be part of a new American revolution. Trump is acting a bit like Salazar so I have an idea of what to expect
@@alicemudgarden92 So Trump is acting like the quiet and humble Salazar? Brilliant analysis.
@@GabrielNicho "Quiet and Humble" How cute you made a fanfiction of Salazar.
GabrielNicho
Both of my avôs and avós lived in Portugal during Salazar. They left before the revolution. However, my avô from my dad’s side of the family says that it was bad time. Salazar was a dictator. The revolution was righteous.
@@gonk534 The Revolution was stupid. Although the colonial war was unfortunate (Salazar would have been better off giving independence to Angola and Mozambique in return for joining a Lusophone free trade pact), Portugal has been worse off geopolitically and spiritually as a result of the 1974 Carnation Revolution. Portugal takes orders from Brussels and the Catholic Christian faith that defined and civilized Portugal has receded as it’s people have become indifferent and in certain cases even apostasized.
Next April 2024, 50 years of the Revolution! And now we have the return of these fascists with a different name! Long live Freedom!
amazing authentic material from the time
The Carnation Revolution proved to ignorant Americans who thinks that socialism means dictatorship that socialism in fact turned Portugal away from dictatorship to a democracy.....
Hoje somos mais uma "social democracia" antigamente éramos mesmo socialistas, só depois de 83 é que o marxismo começou a cair
Socialism is a loaded word now. Socialism means different things depending on the context. Which is why I stay away from politics and most political discussions. People get hung up on semnatics, on definitions....rather than on serving people and meeting human needs.
@@jeanlundi2141 the effects of red scare propaganda
Yeah right! By September 28th 1974, they banned all the right wing parties from competing in the “free elections”. The year that followed this coup saw more political prisoners than the 40 years of dictatorship before it… thankfully the military eventually came to it’s senses.
Well done Portuguese people and culture are excellent and worth protecting from ruination.
so now they invite africa and muslims to replace them
@@Hn-gz5iwRacist and wrong!
Only 0,4% of citizens and residents in Portugal are muslims.
Muito bem feito. Parabéns Well Done Lisboa Portugal 25/04/2024 50 YEARS 🌟
The vast majority of correspondents sent to cover a big sudden world wide event from foreign countries don't usually know the language of the sudden event in that country . They try to employ interpreters, aka translators but when its sudden that is difficult . And they may not have the budget to hire human translators
One of the most beautiful moments in human history
My granma was from Mirandela, so a portuguese born living in Brazil most of her life. Thousands of them came in the 1930's, most of them illiterate, longing to move from a medieval outdated reality to a new one. And it's unbelievable to think today that, leaving Europe, Brazil was their goal.
The Carnation Revolution was a such a happy episode, it gave a hopeless people for more than 300 years a bright new beginning. She felt it, and I'm glad she was right.
The Estado Novo was good for Portugal
@@Batnoodles Is that so? Why there were millions of portuguese ppl moving to Brazil till the 1970's and to France or the UK after that?
The Estado Novo was aiming to restore the glory Portugal lost 400 years before and it never did (search about Portuguese Colonial War and you'll figure out). The Carnation Revolution pointed it was about time to move on.
Evaristo Abrahao modern Portugal is a failed democracy, like all democracies
Modern Portugal is a shithole where everyone is a drug addict
Do we ever stop to think that in the span of 1-2 generations, the children of european migrants to the Americas, brazil/argentina/usa/canada etc.
are now dreaming of moving back to Europe
Portugal the best country in Europe!!!!!!
Thank you, I appreciate that 😁
Beautiful revolution. X
Thanks for the video
The Portuguese speak good English
Bizarre that Thames TV would make documentaries then that the BBC wouldn't touch with a bargepole now! Nowadays, the UK gov and it's media would be backing Salazar!
Though, as others have said, it was a coup, not a revolution. The biggest change for Portugal was joining the EU ten years later!
Viva a Portugal love my country baby😍😁🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Great documentary. Salazar regime was a mysterious machine.
It was a genocidal regime that killed millions in two continents.
Viva Portugal!!!
Great Portuguese!Greeting from China!
+Patrick Lo From Macau I hope.
Thank you so much, Patrik Lo! Love from Portugal
We arrived in Portugal In December of 1980. I was 6. Lived there 13 years (1993).
The death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco a year later also brought similar changes to Spain as well.
Nope, there was a big conflict. Only after, democracy and freedom were practiced.
good
1974 to 1989 -- back when the good guys scored a lot of wins!
The Portuguese revolution is the opposite of the State Coup on Chile 1973 Setember when the Pinochet's Army split on Santiago streets..
Here in Portugal it was the same
But....because the colonial war, and two youngs generations lost,
questions in the military classes etc
Put the 3 forces on the streets in that day on april 1974
One year after Chile...
No . Allende was retard who literally modern day Maduro . He destroyed his country with inflation and suppressed speech and other.
Imagine being overthrown by a neolib lmao
The revolution in Portugal was a long process , it was clear if anything had gone wrong then it would've been a dictatorship just with leftist characteristic.
@@fironfiron8843 shut up and stop tell lie on a deadman
Yes Allande was socialist but was interferrance of America destabilize that country
And yes Pinochet did do some economic capitalist that did prsopers chile
But allende wasn't oppressing and killing the chileans like Pinochet
Portugal was paid in pure Gold 22kt to contunue the War,we just stop it because the lack of military hi-tec,if was today,we could do it even eficient than before.They need us back but in peace and progress but we dont want it back in their model,we just go if we impose our leadership.Vön Portucale 🐱🏍
Tkx, this is awsome
More important is the 25 th of November 1975,when Portuguese Comandos prevented Portugal becoming a comunist country.
No.
Was the _Carnation Revolution_ merely not a means for the communists to take hold of power?
@@pieterwillembotha6719 Like a caricature, imagine taking some racist degenerate Afrikaner as your avi lol
@@TheSpiritOfTheTimes Hi Reddit, do you you mean, the President that advocated and successfully got rid of petty apartheid laws as well as allowed for greater economic activity in white South Africa was a "racist degenerate"? Oh yeah, PW was a real monster.
@@pieterwillembotha6719 He indeed was, a moral monster and degenerate, despised worldwide at his time and now forgotten, forgotten by choice even by his own people lol.
46 years ago today since the revolution started.
One of the unexpected outcomes is that criminals are
Shit scared of the GNR. In 2020 this is a good thing and crime here is very low.
Fascismo NUNCA MAIS!
❤️
This is beautiful to watch. And to think some Portuguese still glorify Salazar 😮
Yes, we made a mistake and didn't get rid of those cancerous metasthesis for good.
Now they're back in Chega party and poisoning the minds of the portuguese youth with their lies.
The three military dictatorships of the post-war period that came into existence across the so-called Free - Western Europe=> 1. Spain 2. Portugal and last but not the least was 3. Greece
The Greek Revolution of 1967 did much good for the nation. It is socialists and communist scum that brought ruin, death, and pain to all of us.
@@eljeffe3120 since when was greek ever stabel
⚘️✌️✊️ 25 de Abril SEMPRE!
50 th Year. 25/04/2024.
Great video makes u appreciate freedom
Portugal Viva portugal ❤❤❤❤
10:39 even a PIDE's wife was ileterate, the kid is transcribing whatever his fascist father was requesting (tooth paste) this is not a contrast, as I bet a regime opositor arrested would not have such privileges..
Maintenant à notre tour de reprendre notre liberté.
Why is this comment section an open hub for maniacs? As pessoas viviam vidas horríveis e não tinham nem condições nem acesso a informação! Claro que hoje em dia estamos muito longe do ideal, mas hoje vive-se uma realidade de um país desenvolvido onde há trabalhos para todos (apesar de ainda muito injustos em vencimentos). Onde todos nós temos acesso à internet e todas as suas utilidades e onde temos livre circulação dentro da Europa (não estamos limitados à área do nosso país e se precisarmos podemos procurar melhores condições fora sem grandes dificuldades). Somos Portugueses e Europeus! E felizes!
"hoje vive-se uma realidade de um país desenvolvido onde há trabalhos para todos"
1974 foi o primeiro ano em que se recolheram dados relativos ao desemprego bruto -- 67,5 milhares -- continuou em crescendo até 1979. Mesmo que o salto inicial se devesse à chegada de ex-colonos, desde então, a população desempregada bruta nunca voltou a valores de 74. O mais baixo (tanto bruto como percentual) foi em 92, e mesmo assim foi mais do dobro (194,1 milhares). Não se verificaram mudanças estruturais: mesmo ignorando os valores altíssimos da crise de 2008, os valores percentuais atuais continuam acima dos de 92.
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www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Popula%c3%a7%c3%a3o+desempregada+total+e+por+tipo+de+desemprego+-358
www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Taxa+de+desemprego+total+e+por+sexo+(percentagem)-550
www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Popula%c3%a7%c3%a3o+residente+total+e+por+grandes+grupos+et%c3%a1rios-513
"Onde todos nós temos acesso à internet e todas as suas utilidades"
Isso é suposto provar alguma coisa? Em 1974 não havia nenhum país com acesso generalizado à Internet. Só no final dos anos oitenta é que apareceram os primeiros operadores de Internet e só após o final da Guerra fria (anos 90) é que a World Wide Web foi generalizada nalguns países.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
web.archive.org/web/20160305130609/www.indra.com/homepages/spike/isp.html
"e onde temos livre circulação dentro da Europa (não estamos limitados à área do nosso país e se precisarmos podemos procurar melhores condições fora sem grandes dificuldades)"
Foi devido a pessoas como José Gonçalo Correia de Oliveira e Ruy Teixeira Guerra que fomos membros fundadores da EFTA e nos tornámos membros associados da CEE em 1959 e 1962. Para que conste, a livre circulação (que surgiu em 2004) incluir-nos-ia nestas condições.
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pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Gon%C3%A7alo_Correia_de_Oliveira
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association#Free_movement_of_people_within_EFTA_and_the_EU/EEA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%E2%80%99_Rights_Directive
"Somos Portugueses e Europeus!"
Sempre o fomos, graças a Deus.
Desenvolvidíssimos! Somos dos países que menos cresce economicamente na Europa e se continuarmos este ritmo em 20 anos passamos a 2 país mais pobre da Europa. Factual
Muitos dos comentários contra o 25 de Abril vêm dos que que tinham algum privilégio (ou familiares deles) à época. Quem podia apoiar uma polícia política ou não consegue conviver com uma opinião diferente? Só quem tem tiques ditatoriais. E nem por ouvirem neste documentário a desgraça porque passavam as tropas portuguesas no ultramar, nem assim aprendem. Depois, deturpam factos, culpando o próprio povo pelo analfabetismo existente, como se as pessoas tivessem dinheiro para mandar os filhos estudar e seguir para um curso superior. Não percebem que a pobreza material trás consigo a miséria de espírito que lhes poderia bloquear alguma mentalidade sobre a importância de estudar. Também se esquecem que uma mulher não podia viajar fora do país sem autorização do marido, muito igual ao que fazem os muçulmanos. O 25 de Abril não foi para fazer um país rico mas sim para acabar com a guerra colonial (íamos perder e bater em retirada tal como os americanos no Vietname) e para repor as liberdades democráticas. O que aconteceu depois, foi o resultado de muita confusão e do envolvimento da extrema direita e da extrema esquerda.
EU Socialist bootlicker. 1991 will come again, and this time NONE of you will survive it.
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Ide comer merda amigo inculto.
Se provares o que estás a dar de comer aos outros, provavelmente saberás porque é tão repudiado.
Soares never was law professor because he was always from the oposition instead he was a layer that defended the political prisioners in the infamous political trials.
Muy bien hecho
Glory to Abril`s heroes!!!
I was 18 years Old i living in Lisbon i assisted to alk of that my work was near Rossio Square not far from Carmo where the Political files were..
Marcello Caetttano in english accents seems like bond..James bond
good stuff!
And Spain, did not have her revolution. How extraordinary, and the republic was kept at bay.
0:06 Footage of Reddit secession from 4chan
1:34 Is it Salgueiro Maia? He was one of the coup leaders and quite a hero by the sounds of it
No it's not
@@lopazioSeethe and cope, lil fascist.
You lost!
Pedro's grandma loves Led Zeppelin. To her it means Freedom.
South African, miss all my porra buddies. I can say Mozambique and Angola did not turn out better with both only reaching some level of peace over the last decade or so.
Surprised this didn't happen in the U.S. during this time with returning Vietnam vets...
probably correlation with the fact that water fluoridation is insanely high in USA, not so much in other places... Dumb them down, make them submissive...
@@redbanlovesasians2236 more to do with television culture than water additives...
@Khadr Trudeau socialists by US standards are centrists anywhere else
I'm surprised they didn't interview Amy pro regime people. They interviewed Somosa in their Nicaragua war documentary or royalists in their Iranian documentary
Hard to interview someone held incomunicado in jail by the revolutionary authorities
I was 7 years old. Were very festive times. Great footage.
Ok boomer
I want my country back 😢
M2
Bruh
Bruno Torres já falta pouco. O chega vai mudar tudo.
@@sentinela8775 lmao vai vai, com o numero the investigações pelo cu acima dele não me parece, fascistas so servem para levar porrada
@@evolution__snow6784 shut up liberal
A UNITED PEOPLE
WILL NEVER
BE DEFEATED.
I live in the UK I know what a totalitarian state is
LOL, shut the fuck up Dick and put the pint down, it's 10 am.
Richard, if you feel that way about UK democracy, then you have no idea what a totalitarian regime is.
🌊🌊🌊
awesome benny hill is coming on....oh wait😶😁
A ridiculous shame that throwed Portugal into meaninglessness and debt.
Lesson from this video: half of Portugal smokes.
16:22 1923 Kanto coup d'etat flashback
Portuguese soldiers fighting in Mozambique had no stomach for a war in Africa, they stayed in barracks and where fearful to patrol and confront the enemy. They wanted the coup to end them being sent to war in Africa.
they are not born to be a soldier, to be a soldier fighting in the guerra colonial was the least thing they wanted
The Day Portugal was sold to the corruption after years of growth!
A sad story about this tiny country.
If you disagree then explain to me how 3years after this revolution the country was bankrupt and at that moment of the revolution was one of the best economies in the world.
Best economy? For whom exactly? The corrupt corporatist elite yes.
Liar! Portugal was the poorest country of ALL Europe including the countries beyond the Iron Curtain under the communist boot.
Our HDI metrics were the same as some poor countries in Africa and our reputation was destroyed by the multiple genocides commited in Africa.
Queen Elisabeth II didn't want to visit Portugal not to be associated with the last fascist tyrant in Europe that kept his own people under suffocating oppression and staggering poverty. The Quen was convinced to visit Portugal by her advisors only because of NATO partnership.
You are a liar, a supporter of genocides and oppression.
3 years after the democratic revolution was broke because we could no longer suck the blood out of Africa as we did before, numbskull.
The end of empire, the end of Portuguese relevance globally and now Portugese cant even afford to live in their own capital city. Interesting how things turn out.
Portugal was never globally relevant
@@wdym100 a very concise way to show you don't know history. Thanks for stopping by.
Some people holding communist flags !!!😱😱😱😱😂😂😂when they fought for freedom !!!! Really ???? 😂😂😂😂😂Since when communism is a sign of FREEDON ???????? Example today Cuba , North Korea amount others
Tem que ver as diversas situações à luz da História. O movimento que derrubou o ditador cubano Batista, apoiado pelos EUA, foi empurrado para os braços da URSS pelas sanções e tentativas de golpes norte americanas. A Coreia do Norte, tal como existe, é uma criação da Guerra Fria, com tanta responsabilidade americana como soviética. Na altura, o PCP era a mais antiga e principal força de resistência à ditadura fascista em Portugal.
Hindsight is 20/20... Don't forget this was the mid 1970s.
There is no freedom. This was a communist takeover.
What are you laughing? Read more before such comment
You kinda dumb aren't you?
What a nose. 6:01 I wonder what was a good reason for him to be sent to prison for?
Oyyyy veyy! Shut it down!
I actually did some digging to try and find if he was a heeb. Tengarrinha is a very very uncommon surname, so you can't really find much from that, but according to Sephardicgen, all of his other surnames are common among Jews here in Portugal.
You stinking anti semites, it was because he was a communist. Nobody cares about Jews here one way or another.
My ideology is more inclined to the right, eventhou i don't agree with 25th of April and carnation revolution (in the way it was orchestrated aswell as some of the outcomes) I feel that I should (and I did) like the video.
Above every opinion, it is an awesome peace of historical footage, in which is present a complete independent interview that isn't inclined to any political ideology, it just faces the happenings and is focused on the variaty of prespectives.
The interviewer knew his place as the interviewee had perfect consciousness of how fragile and uncertain the national situations was after the revolution.
Apart from the video I really am desapointed with the knowledge of some of my compatriots on the comments section.
The ones criticizing Salazar forgotten that he was already dead since 1970 and the one in power was Marcelo Caetano, that was much concerned in stability and make a gradual democracy.
The military took the opportunity to Launched an attack on a more fragilized regime, along side with some less known reasons.
Salazar wasn't an angel nor was the devil some are pointing, and in these century the Portuguese public chose Salazar as the Greater Portuguese ever (personally I don't agree) in a public voting program for some reason.
Like carnation revolution wasn't the greatest happening nor the most horrible one happening to Portugal.
Things happened the way they happened and that's it, now we should face our nowdays problems (always with historical conscienceness) and improve each day our capacities preserving our identity and values like we've been doing for almost 900 years since we are a nation state!!!
Rafael Abreu Salazar may have done a few good things but he was still a dictator and oppressed people. The problem with Caetano was that he did not democratize enough and did not solve the Colonial War. The Guinea Bissau war was a disaster and Portugal had no reason to try to hold on to that territory. The best solution for the Colonial War would have been giving up on Guinea Bissau, Angola and Mozambique while keeping Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, East Timor and potentially also Cabinda. Caetano did not do that but he should have. And because of that, the succeeding government went for a too radical decolonization process. Mário Soares once said he had always thought Cape Verde should not have become independent. He also didn't expect the decolonization, especially of Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor to be so fast.
@@ricardolindo975 one could also say that cape verde and Sao Tome and Principe have done better than expected. As for East Timor, they should've brought it under Australian protection first before independence.
u know what i wish? that a police car drives to ur house in the middle of night and take u away with no explanation. takes u and locks u up...maybe then u'll have a different opinion...
That's not rossio it's Santa Apolonoa train station I'm from Lisbon I know what I'm saying.
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