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I was a young export manager and saw the peaceful revolution from my room at the Avenida Palace Hotel in Lisbon. I ventured out to observe at close hand as all seemed very spirited yet orderly. I was embraced by the locals and thanked for my interest in their affairs.
Having spent a lot of time in Portugal, and also being married to one, I'd argue that the values that seemed central to Salazar's rule are still very much prevalent in today's Portuguese society. Whilst they're honourable and proud people, they are very much gripped by the significance of religion and a version of traditionalism that is more looking backward than forward. My in-laws who alongside cheesemaking also operated (we still do) a sanctuary for donkeys were almost insulted when I said I wanted to buy them a new tractor. They seemed to enjoy the tradition of doing things by hand, struggling twice as hard and yet somehow being pretty indifferent about it all 😂 Optimism isn't really a Portuguese trait - one could almost say that they revel in the feeling of absence or a version of sadness.
Seems to me that you dealt with typical old fashioned traditional Portuguese. The younger people is totally different, extremely ambitious, tending to be arrogant, demanding and impatient, and they don't give a damn about religion. Note that I did not say "they're better".
@@duartesimoes508 In all honesty, that has not been my personal experience. They might be ambitious and demanding but 9 times out of 10, they tend to still be brought up right. of course there will be exceptions but good upbringing is still very much important in today's Portuguese society. AND. They value education.
My father who had much to do with Portugal in Salazar’s time always described him as a benign dictator who tried to rule justly and never tried to excessively enrich himself at the cost of his country.
@ Don’t shoot the messenger. My father died almost fifty years ago. But I will say two things, first, compared with the worst dictators like Papa Doc or Saddam, he was benign (everything is relative ), and second, now that I am almost eighty years old, I am beginning to doubt that any administration of a State can be achieved without a degree of violence.
Yet Salazar was voted as "The greatest Portuguese ever" the winner of the Os Grandes Portugueses contest 35 + years after his death. He was far from a fascist dictator and steered well clear of, having anything to do with, Hitler & Nazi Germany. He was in many ways an austere figure who was honourable and did what he felt best for his country, but failed to move with the times and realise that Portugal was no longer a colonial power.
"He was far from a fascist dictator" *Rubbish* - Censorship of the press. - Imprisonment of political opponents both in mainland Portugal ( Caxias, Peniche are two) and the colonies. Tarrafal in Cabi Verde was a penal colony aka concentraton camp that was known as Campo da Morte Lenta (the “Camp of the Slow Death” in Portuguese). At least 32 political prisoners _were known to have died in the camp._ - In the 1930s, Salazar and his regime drew close to Italian fascists, creating a 40,000-strong youth movement, the Portuguese Legion. - "Lusotropicalism" Look it up. - His PIDE murdered Humberto Delgado who defeated Americo Tomas, the choice of Salazar for president of Portugal. Delgado won the election but the votes were suippressed, proven by the fact that after this election Salazar gave the Assembly the right to choose the president. *Only Salazar could have given the order to kill Delgado.* These are only a few examples that are easy to prove through your own research. \\Trying to say Salazar did good for Portugal is nothing less than revisionism and people might not know the truth, so people like OP try to get away with the whitewashing of history. *Salazar was a dictator and fascist !*
Errrrrrr........ involved in massive colonial wars in Africa..... but then he was not successful from macao local chinamen from humiliating portuguese overlords in macao
@nicholasrevill6610 I don't know where you are getting your information from. Salazar had 41% of the vote Àlvaro Cunhal was 2nd with 19.1% and Alfonso 1 (who died 950 years ago) 4th with 12.4%
No, he was a fascist, he just wasn't as brutal as other fascists which permitted modern-day sympathiser to diminish Salazar's role in keeping a backwards portuguese society and economy for almost half a century for the benefit of an oligarchy of a few rich and/or aristocratic families.
I was born in 1954, lived in Mozambique until independence in 1975. Education and health system were free and it functioned in those days. There were no millionaires, not one, and no hunger either. The regime was authoritarian, not a dictatorship. You were free to leave the country if you so wished. Mozambique after 1975 became a comunist dictatorship. Hospitals became junkyards with Cubans trying to run them without proper medicine. Education was mainly under a mango tree since most schools were destroyed. No books and pens were available. Teachers were known to use sex as a passing tool. Most ministers and those close to the regime bacame millionaires. Hunger is endemic in Mozambique. Crime and political executions are common. Salazar was a saint compared to the thugs that rule Mozambique today.
A sad report; I share your age, but born and lived in the UK. I was at university in 1970s, and recall the 1974 revolution in Portugal, and subsequent independence of Mozambique, Angola, Cabo Verde and Timor Este. Unlike the independence of former French and British colonies,which was planned and arranged for many years, the 1975 independence of Portuguese colonies seemed to me, a complete outside, as unplanned.
@@TheRichardSpearman The manner that the Portuguese suddenly packed their bags and left, without consulting or even prepare their colonies for independence was simply atrocious and disgraceful. All were responsible. The Communist Party, that Socialist Mario Soares considered a hero today but the main responsible, the Armed Forces who fought bravely for over a decade, loosing almos nine thousand killed in action but tired of the war, changed their minds and left, leaving behind, completly lost without a clue, millions, black, brown or white that lost everything they had in the name of freedom. 500 years of presence in Africa washed away just like that.
The music is so loud, so sorry to moan. Pretty off putting. But thank you for putting this together, I had no idea about this part of Portugals' history.
No one in Portugal remembers his era as something that brought any good. The constant oppression and underdevelopment made Portugal a joke to other European countries, the only thing he did good was shielding Portugal from the war and profiting from it. Portugal still feels the effects of his rule, the country is still late to everything when it comes to other European nations. Progress is being made and we’ve been modernizing ourselves since the late 80’s but we still have a long to way to go Awesome documentary
The problem of simplified narratives is that the devil in the details isn't understood... And that's why people still think so highly of Salazar, and don't understand the reasons for the opposition to the regime by large sectors of the urban middle classes. The so-called saviour of Portuguese finances did something that if it was done today would be considered a debt default, and would plunge Portugal into a currency crisis. The financial problems of the Portuguese state of the time were the result of a low tax base, and people that could pay tax would avoid paying them, instead the state resorted to borrowing using bond issuances. A situation very similar to the current day Italy... The problem was the Portuguese state was clientele based, it had important sectors of society that received salaries from it and it managed large infrastructures like railways. The operational deficit was compounded by increased debt servicing, and generating inflation to deflate the current debt wasn't working. The situation was unsustainable, and the important sectors of society weren't in agreement to reach some kind of solution or who would bear the brunt of the costs of the solution. Salazar managed to navigate in a particular period of time when its actions would go mostly unnoticed by outsiders, the solution that he devised was to structure a large part of the issued bonds from annuities to perpetuities. This meant that instead of paying the principal and the interest until the bond maturity, it would pay only the interest until the end of time. This freed a lot of the financial pressure from the state but had major consequences. The thing was, small size credit unions were the major holders of state bonds and these financial institutions were the holders of the savings of the small and medium bourgeoisie and working people in urban centers. Salazar's debt restructuring wiped out the credit unions and forced a major restructuring that centralized the sector into a single institution dominated in part by the Catholic church. A large part of the opposition to the regime and to Salazar was born at this time, the bourgeoisie and working classes that had to pay the cost of saving the State finances. These were a constant thorn in the regime, but they had too much to lose to be more militant against it.
I was visiting France in 1973 and met a Portuguese national who had left to avoid the wars in Africa. I used to collect stamps and remember the beautiful stamps of both Spain and Portugal, sometimes picturing their remaining colonies. I visited Lisbon several years ago, and noticed that many residents seemed to be of African or Portuguese-African ancestry. It seemed to be a nation formed by both Europe and Africa, and I wonder if it ever was part of the cult of race, as in Spain, signified by the phrase, "pure Spanish blood".
Yeah before the migrants came of African colonies it probably was. Most moors were sent away after the reconquista. Not that it matters much ofcourse, but I think those are recent arrivals (well recent, I think there’s been a community there for centuries, just that in 1400/1500 there wasn’t)
@bernd_das_brot6911 Portugals borders were finalised in 1200s with a final decision to expel Jews in the 1400s after being barred from leaving. Bear in mind these edicts were on practicing / quasi-practicing communities. I don’t think the “Moors”and Jews were ethnically cleansed or as dictated ‘banished’ as a ‘race’ in Portugal’s context they were converted and are evident in rural Portuguese social and cultural fabric- because they were originally mostly of indigenous west Iberian descent - Mozarab. This is certainly evident in Lisbon and the regions south of the Tagus.
I would have loved to watch the entire video, as this subject is not discussed very often (outside of Portugal), but the LOUD MUSIC made it unbearable to watch to the end. Perhaps a reupload without the music? Best Regards.
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It's so sad that we are forgeting how ruthless and corrupt Salazar really was. The misery of the big majority of Portuguese at the time, the torture and persecution for all those who thought diferently. Even Salazar stupidity in trying by force, at the cost of thousands of portuguese dying fighting to keep the colonies in Africa a lot longer that acceptable. Sad sad time when we believe far right is the answer.
After WW2 world powers chose to isolate Portugal and Spain just because they wanted neutrality during the war, SHAME ON THEM! The likes of Amnesty International and other NGO’s plus countries like the UK chose to portray Portugal as a pariah state when in fact it was governed by a benevolent dictator. They forced Portugal to relinquish their African possessions when strict law and order was required to combat communist ideology, yes Africa would look different today but for the better!! Salazar and Franco were good men and a product of their times, they were what both countries needed, history proves that!
All in the name of fighting the USSR. Look at Greece when the Junta took power in 1967 until 1974 the big powers of NATO, could live with dictators then and now. But it was worse during the cold War.
It is not is the least incredible. Salazar loathed communists and the Soviet Union, was a reliable ally, and just think of all the Bases not only in the Azores but worldwide that Portugal had to offer.
Portugal was a poor country under salazar's rule. Many people fled the country, including members of my family, to live a better life. The colonial wars in africa were a bigger drain on resources. The 1974 revolution changed portugal for the better.
Unfortunately it took about a dozen years after the revolution for Portugal to really turn for the better. Regarding the former Colonies, they're just hopeless. Some fifty years later they remain as miserable as during the Civil wars, and disregarding the meaningless Independence their people tries tirelessly to emigrate to Portugal... They will never learn to take care of themselves.
The portuguese still migrate, around 30% of portuguese aged 15-39 emigrated, that's about 850.000 people. Portuguese fertility rates reached an all-time low in 2013 with 1.21 births per woman. 10 years later and the number is at 1.44 births per woman, still below the replacement rate, which has been the case since 1983 in which there were 1.96 births per woman. This is simply not sustainable and the portuguese government, which has basically been a two-party oligarchy since 1974, doesn't care, they will just wipe their tears with the billions Brussels sends their way and just say foreign migrants will solve all of the country's problems, including fertility. "To be portuguese is to be universal" - Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, so get ready to be replaced by people from the former colonies, the middle east and india, gotta keep up with the rest of the EU, you know what I mean? The past 25 years Portugal was basically ruled by the same leftist political party dragging the country ever to misery. I say good riddance, it's democracy at work, what the people vote for is what the people get and they love being ignorant and miserable.
Better for who? The brain drain of the past 20 years has left PT devoid of any technical talent, only to be replaced by invadors from overseas. Liberal democracy is a cancer to any nation.
In the Baha'i Writings the three social evils are communism, fascism and materialism. Other teachings are the elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty, and the elimination of prejudice. You may consider this Faith for yourself; that's another teaching: individual search for truth.
At least he kept Portugal far from the catastrophes and bloodsheds of World War II, though fighting colonial wars. And Jews were safe. But in order to do all this, he became a dictator and his regime oppressive. No sorry, you can't do evil to do any good.
Conformity and obedience to the state seems to prevail in Portugal. I'm newly resident here and am always amazed at the politeness of this society. Improvements have been made in escaping the grip of the Catholic church and most Portuguese seem to be non-religious and atheist. The drift away from religion is an encouraging trend across Europe. Secular societies are happier.
How ironically backward. Secular society is dead, having never truly existed until the American Revolution and subsequent French Revolution. And secular societies are *miserable* and wallow in the filth of what it creates, namely impurity, depression, purposelessness, nihilism, war, and mass execution of infants. What a track record for a civilization less than a few centuries old.
Ibero-fascism of Franco y Salazar is the applied politics of the Roman Catholic church. It has positive and negative attributes. It is good for the simple and common people, but not so good for the individualistic who want to be creative, or get rich.
it was very bad, people were poor, analphabet, isolated and tortured as my grandfather for prostesting against the regime and he was also sent to jail because of that
Salazar legacy remains divisive if you listen to the 5% of communists that still exist in the country because even socialists like Mario Soares hated to see people calling him a fascist , Portuguese society is very divided , 5% hate Salazar and 95% in spite of the poverty , colonial war and censorship e was a good leader for the country. USA society is also very divided in subjects like abortion. 50% of the Americans are pro abortion 50% of the Americans are against abortion. 80% of the Americans that are pro abortion are pro abortion but under certain conditions like being carried out in the first 3 month of the pregnancy gestation , congenital abnormalities of the fetus , a gestation from rape and health risks for the mother. 80% of the Americans that are against abortion are against but not if it is carried out in the first 3 month of gestation , if there are health risks for the mother , rape and congenital abnormalities . American society is very divided about the abortion law because 80% of the Americans agree how it should be and 10% of left extremists and 10% of right extremists don't. Nowadays people , specially those in the media , only listen to the minorities yelling and tantrums , no one listen to the silenced majority.
That is barely a split. Also not all of those things are bad, there was poverty and he does deserve blame of course but the country was improving, given how many of the colonies transpired I will write that it was good of him to try to keep them and censorship happens today under different names.
No one knows about Salazar.. decades ago,Portugal doesn’t want to remember him.. no biography in English for years (one recently)… Salazar was a murderous racist waging war on 2 continents…
You are definitely a communist or a liberal (leftist). You're not even Portuguese. If you were intellectually honest you wouldn't write so many untruths. I suggest you go to North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc. You will find in these "paradises" the type of society that you apparently defend.
Salazar was far from bloodthirsty. Look at nazi Germany or the Soviet Union under stalin and then compare those regimes to Salazar's Portugal. Salazar gave sanctuary to Jews during the holocaust, hardly the behaviour of a racist.
You must not remember him as well because he was not the crazy murderous lunatic that you seem to be describing, plus the wars weren't waged because he wanted to, but because communist terrorists were being financed by the US, USSR, Cuba, China, etc. to cause mayhem, death and destruction on the colonies. In Angola, even UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, switched to the portuguese side after 1972 and kept on fighting the commies until 30 years later in 2002 when Savimbi was killed. Many africans fought on the portuguese side. The most condecorated portuguese soldier ever, was a member of the Commando Regiment (Regimento de Comandos) named Marcelino da Mata, who was born in Portuguese Guinea in 1940 and fought for Portugal in the Colonial War. Not everything is black and white. Good or bad. Salazar did many good things, many bad things as well, every ruler does, but he certainly did more good than bad.
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It's beautiful.
yup, deafening at one point
The music track is much too loud, hard to hear the voice
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I was a young export manager and saw the peaceful revolution from my room at the Avenida Palace Hotel in Lisbon. I ventured out to observe at close hand as all seemed very spirited yet orderly. I was embraced by the locals and thanked for my interest in their affairs.
Thank you so much for sharing such an incredible story. Your perspective adds a unique and personal touch to the history we’re sharing.
Having spent a lot of time in Portugal, and also being married to one, I'd argue that the values that seemed central to Salazar's rule are still very much prevalent in today's Portuguese society. Whilst they're honourable and proud people, they are very much gripped by the significance of religion and a version of traditionalism that is more looking backward than forward. My in-laws who alongside cheesemaking also operated (we still do) a sanctuary for donkeys were almost insulted when I said I wanted to buy them a new tractor. They seemed to enjoy the tradition of doing things by hand, struggling twice as hard and yet somehow being pretty indifferent about it all 😂 Optimism isn't really a Portuguese trait - one could almost say that they revel in the feeling of absence or a version of sadness.
Sounds like "saúdade" is a backbone of Portugese life :)
Seems to me that you dealt with typical old fashioned traditional Portuguese. The younger people is totally different, extremely ambitious, tending to be arrogant, demanding and impatient, and they don't give a damn about religion. Note that I did not say "they're better".
@@duartesimoes508 In all honesty, that has not been my personal experience. They might be ambitious and demanding but 9 times out of 10, they tend to still be brought up right. of course there will be exceptions but good upbringing is still very much important in today's Portuguese society. AND. They value education.
My father who had much to do with Portugal in Salazar’s time always described him as a benign dictator who tried to rule justly and never tried to excessively enrich himself at the cost of his country.
true
He enriched all those (not many) powerful families who served him. Dictator and begnin and justly don't mix.
He was a brutal oppressor and murderer. That's hardly benign.
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Don’t shoot the messenger. My father died almost fifty years ago. But I will say two things, first, compared with the worst dictators like Papa Doc or Saddam, he was benign (everything is relative ), and second, now that I am almost eighty years old, I am beginning to doubt that any administration of a State can be achieved without a degree of violence.
Yet Salazar was voted as "The greatest Portuguese ever" the winner of the Os Grandes Portugueses contest 35 + years after his death. He was far from a fascist dictator and steered well clear of, having anything to do with, Hitler & Nazi Germany. He was in many ways an austere figure who was honourable and did what he felt best for his country, but failed to move with the times and realise that Portugal was no longer a colonial power.
Not strictly true. In the Os Grandes Portugueses he only received a 7% of the vote. With King Alfonso 1 having 21% of the votes.
"He was far from a fascist dictator"
*Rubbish*
- Censorship of the press.
- Imprisonment of political opponents both in mainland Portugal ( Caxias, Peniche are two) and the colonies. Tarrafal in Cabi Verde was a penal colony aka concentraton camp that was known as Campo da Morte Lenta (the “Camp of the Slow Death” in Portuguese). At least 32 political prisoners _were known to have died in the camp._
- In the 1930s, Salazar and his regime drew close to Italian fascists, creating a 40,000-strong youth movement, the Portuguese Legion.
- "Lusotropicalism"
Look it up.
- His PIDE murdered Humberto Delgado who defeated Americo Tomas, the choice of Salazar for president of Portugal. Delgado won the election but the votes were suippressed, proven by the fact that after this election Salazar gave the Assembly the right to choose the president.
*Only Salazar could have given the order to kill Delgado.*
These are only a few examples that are easy to prove through your own research. \\Trying to say Salazar did good for Portugal is nothing less than revisionism and people might not know the truth, so people like OP try to get away with the whitewashing of history.
*Salazar was a dictator and fascist !*
Errrrrrr........ involved in massive colonial wars in Africa..... but then he was not successful from macao local chinamen from humiliating portuguese overlords in macao
@nicholasrevill6610 I don't know where you are getting your information from. Salazar had 41% of the vote Àlvaro Cunhal was 2nd with 19.1% and Alfonso 1 (who died 950 years ago) 4th with 12.4%
No, he was a fascist, he just wasn't as brutal as other fascists which permitted modern-day sympathiser to diminish Salazar's role in keeping a backwards portuguese society and economy for almost half a century for the benefit of an oligarchy of a few rich and/or aristocratic families.
I was born in 1954, lived in Mozambique until independence in 1975. Education and health system were free and it functioned in those days. There were no millionaires, not one, and no hunger either. The regime was authoritarian, not a dictatorship. You were free to leave the country if you so wished. Mozambique after 1975 became a comunist dictatorship. Hospitals became junkyards with Cubans trying to run them without proper medicine. Education was mainly under a mango tree since most schools were destroyed. No books and pens were available. Teachers were known to use sex as a passing tool. Most ministers and those close to the regime bacame millionaires. Hunger is endemic in Mozambique. Crime and political executions are common. Salazar was a saint compared to the thugs that rule Mozambique today.
When about the freedoms of Black peoples?
Of course Salazar didn’t care…along with his boyfriends from South Africa they committed Genocide!!
A sad report; I share your age, but born and lived in the UK. I was at university in 1970s, and recall the 1974 revolution in Portugal, and subsequent independence of Mozambique, Angola, Cabo Verde and Timor Este. Unlike the independence of former French and British colonies,which was planned and arranged for many years, the 1975 independence of Portuguese colonies seemed to me, a complete outside, as unplanned.
@@TheRichardSpearman The manner that the Portuguese suddenly packed their bags and left, without consulting or even prepare their colonies for independence was simply atrocious and disgraceful. All were responsible. The Communist Party, that Socialist Mario Soares considered a hero today but the main responsible, the Armed Forces who fought bravely for over a decade, loosing almos nine thousand killed in action but tired of the war, changed their minds and left, leaving behind, completly lost without a clue, millions, black, brown or white that lost everything they had in the name of freedom. 500 years of presence in Africa washed away just like that.
But why Mozambique locals whacking portuguese overlords
@@TheRichardSpearmantimor Leste was subsequently occupied by indonesia
Just a small note: at 6:45 those are WW1 conscripts, not colonial war conscripts
The music is so loud, so sorry to moan. Pretty off putting. But thank you for putting this together, I had no idea about this part of Portugals' history.
The Salazar regime was not fascist but catholic conservative, like Horty's hungariam regime.
Or de Valera's Ireland of the 40s-60s .
The Portuguese Monarchy didn't "collapse". It was overthrown by jacobin Freemasons.
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Life don't sound that bad, frankly. Sounds so much like Singapore in the 1970s.
There's a very good thriller of this era which was on Netflix. Gloria. I recommend it.
No one in Portugal remembers his era as something that brought any good.
The constant oppression and underdevelopment made Portugal a joke to other European countries, the only thing he did good was shielding Portugal from the war and profiting from it.
Portugal still feels the effects of his rule, the country is still late to everything when it comes to other European nations.
Progress is being made and we’ve been modernizing ourselves since the late 80’s but we still have a long to way to go
Awesome documentary
The problem of simplified narratives is that the devil in the details isn't understood... And that's why people still think so highly of Salazar, and don't understand the reasons for the opposition to the regime by large sectors of the urban middle classes.
The so-called saviour of Portuguese finances did something that if it was done today would be considered a debt default, and would plunge Portugal into a currency crisis. The financial problems of the Portuguese state of the time were the result of a low tax base, and people that could pay tax would avoid paying them, instead the state resorted to borrowing using bond issuances. A situation very similar to the current day Italy...
The problem was the Portuguese state was clientele based, it had important sectors of society that received salaries from it and it managed large infrastructures like railways. The operational deficit was compounded by increased debt servicing, and generating inflation to deflate the current debt wasn't working. The situation was unsustainable, and the important sectors of society weren't in agreement to reach some kind of solution or who would bear the brunt of the costs of the solution.
Salazar managed to navigate in a particular period of time when its actions would go mostly unnoticed by outsiders, the solution that he devised was to structure a large part of the issued bonds from annuities to perpetuities. This meant that instead of paying the principal and the interest until the bond maturity, it would pay only the interest until the end of time. This freed a lot of the financial pressure from the state but had major consequences.
The thing was, small size credit unions were the major holders of state bonds and these financial institutions were the holders of the savings of the small and medium bourgeoisie and working people in urban centers. Salazar's debt restructuring wiped out the credit unions and forced a major restructuring that centralized the sector into a single institution dominated in part by the Catholic church.
A large part of the opposition to the regime and to Salazar was born at this time, the bourgeoisie and working classes that had to pay the cost of saving the State finances. These were a constant thorn in the regime, but they had too much to lose to be more militant against it.
Salazar established the house renting, all Portuguese had an affordable house.
And had no money for food lol
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Very good documentary!
Thank you!
I was visiting France in 1973 and met a Portuguese national who had left to avoid the wars in Africa. I used to collect stamps and remember the beautiful stamps of both Spain and Portugal, sometimes picturing their remaining colonies. I visited Lisbon several years ago, and noticed that many residents seemed to be of African or Portuguese-African ancestry. It seemed to be a nation formed by both Europe and Africa, and I wonder if it ever was part of the cult of race, as in Spain, signified by the phrase, "pure Spanish blood".
Yeah before the migrants came of African colonies it probably was. Most moors were sent away after the reconquista. Not that it matters much ofcourse, but I think those are recent arrivals (well recent, I think there’s been a community there for centuries, just that in 1400/1500 there wasn’t)
@bernd_das_brot6911 Portugals borders were finalised in 1200s with a final decision to expel Jews in the 1400s after being barred from leaving. Bear in mind these edicts were on practicing / quasi-practicing communities. I don’t think the “Moors”and Jews were ethnically cleansed or as dictated ‘banished’ as a ‘race’ in Portugal’s context they were converted and are evident in rural Portuguese social and cultural fabric- because they were originally mostly of indigenous west Iberian descent - Mozarab. This is certainly evident in Lisbon and the regions south of the Tagus.
There was a clear difference between Salazar and Franco from Spain.
I would have loved to watch the entire video, as this subject is not discussed very often (outside of Portugal), but the LOUD MUSIC made it unbearable to watch to the end. Perhaps a reupload without the music? Best Regards.
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It's so sad that we are forgeting how ruthless and corrupt Salazar really was. The misery of the big majority of Portuguese at the time, the torture and persecution for all those who thought diferently. Even Salazar stupidity in trying by force, at the cost of thousands of portuguese dying fighting to keep the colonies in Africa a lot longer that acceptable. Sad sad time when we believe far right is the answer.
After WW2 world powers chose to isolate Portugal and Spain just because they wanted neutrality during the war, SHAME ON THEM! The likes of Amnesty International and other NGO’s plus countries like the UK chose to portray Portugal as a pariah state when in fact it was governed by a benevolent dictator. They forced Portugal to relinquish their African possessions when strict law and order was required to combat communist ideology, yes Africa would look different today but for the better!! Salazar and Franco were good men and a product of their times, they were what both countries needed, history proves that!
The surveillance and repression to achieve order has so many parallels to the DDR!
whats the point to put so much background noise ... no one understand what you say
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It’s incredible that Portugal was accepted as founding member of NATO in 1949…
All in the name of fighting the USSR. Look at Greece when the Junta took power in 1967 until 1974 the big powers of NATO, could live with dictators then and now. But it was worse during the cold War.
It is not is the least incredible. Salazar loathed communists and the Soviet Union, was a reliable ally, and just think of all the Bases not only in the Azores but worldwide that Portugal had to offer.
@duartesimoes508 Yes but does not make it right.
@@timtyoutube87 It was not that bad.
@@timtyoutube87 The Greek situation was embarrassing though.
Portugal was a poor country under salazar's rule. Many people fled the country, including members of my family, to live a better life. The colonial wars in africa were a bigger drain on resources. The 1974 revolution changed portugal for the better.
Unfortunately it took about a dozen years after the revolution for Portugal to really turn for the better.
Regarding the former Colonies, they're just hopeless. Some fifty years later they remain as miserable as during the Civil wars, and disregarding the meaningless Independence their people tries tirelessly to emigrate to Portugal...
They will never learn to take care of themselves.
The portuguese still migrate, around 30% of portuguese aged 15-39 emigrated, that's about 850.000 people. Portuguese fertility rates reached an all-time low in 2013 with 1.21 births per woman. 10 years later and the number is at 1.44 births per woman, still below the replacement rate, which has been the case since 1983 in which there were 1.96 births per woman. This is simply not sustainable and the portuguese government, which has basically been a two-party oligarchy since 1974, doesn't care, they will just wipe their tears with the billions Brussels sends their way and just say foreign migrants will solve all of the country's problems, including fertility.
"To be portuguese is to be universal" - Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, so get ready to be replaced by people from the former colonies, the middle east and india, gotta keep up with the rest of the EU, you know what I mean?
The past 25 years Portugal was basically ruled by the same leftist political party dragging the country ever to misery. I say good riddance, it's democracy at work, what the people vote for is what the people get and they love being ignorant and miserable.
Better for who? The brain drain of the past 20 years has left PT devoid of any technical talent, only to be replaced by invadors from overseas. Liberal democracy is a cancer to any nation.
@@duartesimoes508Well, not all of them turned out bad at least - take Cabo Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, partially Angola
@@ivario Take two small group of islands and Angola...the State that went into a War more devastating than against the Portuguese.
In the Baha'i Writings the three social evils are communism, fascism and materialism. Other teachings are the elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty, and the elimination of prejudice. You may consider this Faith for yourself; that's another teaching: individual search for truth.
there's a contradiction there, you cannot eliminate poverty and extreme wealth without establishing a socialist/communist society 🤔
Salazar gives 100 zero to Franco in intelligence.
At least he kept Portugal far from the catastrophes and bloodsheds of World War II, though fighting colonial wars. And Jews were safe. But in order to do all this, he became a dictator and his regime oppressive. No sorry, you can't do evil to do any good.
Frankly speaking .....I dare to say that Franco is a much better dictator than salazar
@@Loo-lp1fsyes he was, at least Franco tried to create a midle class as oposed to Salazar that favored iliteracy and poverty.
" jews were safe " 🤓🤓🤓 they matter so much dont they cupcake?
@royale7620 not happy right...... be a melayu in South east asia. Then u can be maga white type just like those in usa
@@Loo-lp1fsSalazar didn't kill people in great big bleeding batches the way Franco did
Conformity and obedience to the state seems to prevail in Portugal. I'm newly resident here and am always amazed at the politeness of this society. Improvements have been made in escaping the grip of the Catholic church and most Portuguese seem to be non-religious and atheist. The drift away from religion is an encouraging trend across Europe. Secular societies are happier.
Studies prove the opposite.
How ironically backward. Secular society is dead, having never truly existed until the American Revolution and subsequent French Revolution.
And secular societies are *miserable* and wallow in the filth of what it creates, namely impurity, depression, purposelessness, nihilism, war, and mass execution of infants.
What a track record for a civilization less than a few centuries old.
Bruh!
@johnnotrealname8168 are you bruhing him or my deleted comment?
Ibero-fascism of Franco y Salazar is the applied politics of the Roman Catholic church. It has positive and negative attributes. It is good for the simple and common people, but not so good for the individualistic who want to be creative, or get rich.
The simple and common people fought hard against Franco but were unfortunately defeated.
You live under de most totalitariam regime in history - liberal democracy - and you dare to criticcize Salazar's regime?
FY!
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Viva SALAZAR !!!
Doesn’t sound too bad tbh.
it was very bad, people were poor, analphabet, isolated and tortured as my grandfather for prostesting against the regime and he was also sent to jail because of that
Salazar legacy remains divisive if you listen to the 5% of communists that still exist in the country because even socialists like Mario Soares hated to see people calling him a fascist , Portuguese society is very divided , 5% hate Salazar and 95% in spite of the poverty , colonial war and censorship e was a good leader for the country.
USA society is also very divided in subjects like abortion.
50% of the Americans are pro abortion
50% of the Americans are against abortion.
80% of the Americans that are pro abortion are pro abortion but under certain conditions like being carried out in the first 3 month of the pregnancy gestation , congenital abnormalities of the fetus , a gestation from rape and health risks for the mother.
80% of the Americans that are against abortion are against but not if it is carried out in the first 3 month of gestation , if there are health risks for the mother , rape and congenital abnormalities .
American society is very divided about the abortion law because 80% of the Americans agree how it should be and 10% of left extremists and 10% of right extremists don't.
Nowadays people , specially those in the media , only listen to the minorities yelling and tantrums , no one listen to the silenced majority.
That is barely a split. Also not all of those things are bad, there was poverty and he does deserve blame of course but the country was improving, given how many of the colonies transpired I will write that it was good of him to try to keep them and censorship happens today under different names.
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VIVA O 25 DE ABRIL! VIVA A LIBERDADE!
You can see the Mussolini pic at 1,19" ...enough said
So quick to judge, enough said about you actually
You do know that Salazar condemned Italy's invasion of Ethiopia before supporting the allies during world war 2 don't you?
The ruthless dictator Salazar was a devout Catholic, as well as his Spanish counterpart Generalissimo Franco.
Like my comment if you're a fan of Salazar! Let's see how many of us are out there. VIVA SALAZAR!
you cant say viva Salazar,he's dead,lol
Viva Salazar! 🇵🇹
Benfica!
Long live Salazar!
No one knows about Salazar.. decades ago,Portugal doesn’t want to remember him.. no biography in English for years (one recently)…
Salazar was a murderous racist waging war on 2 continents…
You are definitely a communist or a liberal (leftist). You're not even Portuguese. If you were intellectually honest you wouldn't write so many untruths. I suggest you go to North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc. You will find in these "paradises" the type of society that you apparently defend.
Salazar was far from bloodthirsty. Look at nazi Germany or the Soviet Union under stalin and then compare those regimes to Salazar's Portugal. Salazar gave sanctuary to Jews during the holocaust, hardly the behaviour of a racist.
You must not remember him as well because he was not the crazy murderous lunatic that you seem to be describing, plus the wars weren't waged because he wanted to, but because communist terrorists were being financed by the US, USSR, Cuba, China, etc. to cause mayhem, death and destruction on the colonies. In Angola, even UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, switched to the portuguese side after 1972 and kept on fighting the commies until 30 years later in 2002 when Savimbi was killed.
Many africans fought on the portuguese side. The most condecorated portuguese soldier ever, was a member of the Commando Regiment (Regimento de Comandos) named Marcelino da Mata, who was born in Portuguese Guinea in 1940 and fought for Portugal in the Colonial War. Not everything is black and white. Good or bad. Salazar did many good things, many bad things as well, every ruler does, but he certainly did more good than bad.
Suuure. And the Guerrilha from the MPLA, FNLA, UNITA, FRELIMO and PAIGC were terrific, tolerant and harmless people... 😂
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@@MAIORIANVS Now you're talking. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Grande Semhor
Salazar gives 100 zero to Franco in intelligence.