Salazar's Dictatorship in Portugal - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the post-war Portugal, as we talk about Salazar's dictatorship.
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[@pierrerodrigues1781]

My father fought in Angola leaving behind my mom and the prospects of building a family. This period of the Portuguese history have so many details hard to explain. Growing up I was with my father, at least one time per years, sitting across the battalion’s get together lunch. First hand listen to the old guys story’s was something that I will never forget. My grandmother is still alive, with 97 years old, the story of the Alentejo famine ,that she been thru, still take the cake for me. She remembers the Salazar words about the WW2 . “I will save us from war, but will not save us from famine” Well, my family made it until today. Good video, and good effort on the Portuguese words! ❤

[@maxheadrom3088]

From what I read about the Carnations' Revolution it was an amazing event! Abraços do Brasil! Here's a song by Chico Buarque about the Revolution - "So much sea". Brazil would only go back into full democracy 10 years later in 1985. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYG1kqCce9WjkJI

[@leofranz9720]

Not amazing for Angola, which was thrown into a civil war with millions of deaths by the Carnation Revolution@@maxheadrom3088

[@cassyvorster466]

Respect and love from me, a South African. Some of my family fought in Angola, mozambique and swa

[@catarinia]

My father also fought in the Portuguese Colonial Wars. Que Deus abençoe você e sua família

[@coolfunnyvideos4829]

My great uncles were also missioned out to Angola and I believe Mozambique, it was an unfortunate time, all Salazar cared about was holding outer lands

[@aryehyehudahajzenberg9503]

As a Brazilian, we do not study much in school the History of Portugal so, videos like this, help fill the void ! I never learned, until now, anything about this period of the Portuguese History. Excellent video as usual. Keep up the excellent work and may God bless you always !

[@FNDMA]

It is on purpose so that you brazilians do not raise a sense of "going back in time" and embracing an independent Brazil

[@aryehyehudahajzenberg9503]

@@FNDMA ??? Whats your problem man !?!

[@FNDMA]

@@aryehyehudahajzenberg9503 no problem at all. I am just making a statement. Do you think i have a problem? Why?

[@argonauth]

We also don't get a lot of the Brazilian history. Not even the parts that so common. Such as the civil war opposing Dom Joao and Dom Duarte and the succeeding independence of Brazil. Although, this is all very recent, so recent that 20 years ago wouldn't be taught with all of this bluntness.

[@carlsaint2841]

​??? What do you mean by that, exactly? I'm Portuguese and I am very proud of my Brazilian brothers and sisters, who have been enjoying their independence from Portugal for centuries.

[@christopping5876]

As an 11 year travelling back from Beira in Mozambique to Rhodesia, the day Mozambique Independence was granted, it meant nothing to me at the time but was to have a huge impact on the Rhodesian Bush war. This makes everything so much clearer, 4 plus decades later. Thank you.

[@puraLusa]

For the ones who were fighting it meant everything.

[@gerhardbenade5869]

Unfortunately today Mozambique is in an absolute economic mess and one of the poorest countries in the world.

[@TheLukasDirector]

​@@gerhardbenade5869 As is Zimbabwe. Go figure.

[@christopping5876]

@puraLusa Very true. I was too young to understand the ramifications.

[@tiagogomes3807]

Mozambique could be so rich if it weren't for the commies... That country has everything to be the richest nation in the world. But is one of the poorer...

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Ah yes one of the other dictatorships aside from Franco in the Iberian Peninsula that isn't discussed that often. Thank You, Cold War for doing a video on this topic

[@American_Nationalist1776]

Franco was good

[@gideonmoseri4850]

​@@American_Nationalist1776Franco was the worst Salazar was the best

[@asiersanz8941]

@@American_Nationalist1776 yeah, a very good GENOCIDE!

[@darkwolf1202]

isn't discussed because it was allowed to exist after World War 2. and i'm glad we didn't need anybody's help to end the dictatorship.

[@aguamolhada1361]

​@@gideonmoseri4850Franco was a mass murderer, he used to be a soldier, therefore it is normal that he is more brutal than Salazar, who was a mere bureaucrat

[@ligayamatira2293]

We Wish to Have a Feature episode about the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos from 1965 to 1986 and Under Martial Law from 1972 to 1981

[@g.wrigs-roblox]

Sure, I am looking forward to this episode of the Cold War Channel

[@Ceiteach.O.Duibhir]

Better include that his son is the current president of the Philippines "Cough cou-fuck'm cough"

[@Venezolano410]

The fact that the Americans supported Marcos must be included.

[@bryedtan]

Considering this channel also covered the Huk Rebellion I believe the subject will be tackled soon. There is also videos in regard to Indonesia during the Cold War so I expect a video in time.

[@bigmedge]

@@Venezolano410 They were right to support him . He did far more for the country's industrialization that the Aquino bum that replaced him

[@pedrosousa5969]

Congratulations for the very informative video. Concerning the investment in education under Salazar, however, it should be stressed that it has been dramatically lower than for instance that of Franco's Spain. This resulted in a level of illiteracy around 1970 unparalled in Europe and even in most of Latin America. It was the Veiga Simão reform under Caetano and most of all the massive investment by the democratic regime that changed this. A similar landscape aplies to healthcare. Healthcare levels under Estado Novo (eg infant mortality) were catastrophic, and the half a century of democratic regime paved the way to a worldwide example of healthcare coverage.

[@FrazzP]

If the Portuguese had concentrated their efforts in one place they may have pushed back the inevitable for a few years. The armed movements inside Angola (where the colonial war was the most successful) had practically been pushed to the brink of collapse since not only did they fight the Portuguese, but also among themselves. The Carnation Revolution is what won them their War of Independence.

[@renatopereira2315]

Yes, and we the Portuguese people are very happy that they won it. By our own action in the streets we forced our government to stop the colonial war and give immediate and total independence to the colonies.

[@bernardobiritiki]

"If the Portuguese had concentrated their efforts in one place they may have pushed back the inevitable for a few years". Borderline starvation , no electricity or running water outside of big cities, and mass flight from the country, yeah your righ we needed to concetrate more

[@elemperadordemexico]

​@@bernardobiritikiseethe

[@renatopereira2315]

@@roddeazevedo The only portuguese people that dont agree with this are the modern fascists of the "Chega" party. All the rest of the portuguese population rejoices on the 25th of April, for freedom, the end of fascism, the end of colonial opression, the start of a national health service, free and universal education etc Im sorry your small minority of ignorants is stuck in the middle ages.

[@renatopereira2315]

@@roddeazevedo Yes because at least there was no poilitical repression and no concentration camps LOL. Just that question shows how ignorant you are

[@Numba003]

I currently know almost nothing about the history of Portugal outside of some of its exploration and colonization efforts. Thank you for this look into Portugal's modern history. I look forward to future videos on the topic! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

[@Clipgatherer]

Salazar didn't leave office voluntarily. He had suffered a stroke and was eased out by Caetano, without his knowing it. He died the following year (1970).

[@N7SPECTRE1999]

Thank you for doing this. I am portuguese myself, and I absolutely love your content. Keep doing good work!

[@chrisstroh4776]

There is a movie, Night Train to Lisbon that got me interested in the Carnation Revolution and Portugal generally. Thank you for your videos about topics rarely or less covered in standard history classes.

[@beepboop204]

i worked with a bunch of Portuguese dudes and they sure had some surprising views on Salazar. lots of urban legend styled stories about his actions

[@vitordavid6086]

Do you know that Salazar was voted the greatest portuguese in history in a tv show? That shocked the portuguese left and polititians

[@renatopereira2315]

Yes a large number of portuguese fascists exist to this day. Though things wont end very well for them if they try to do their thing again because now we are more than ready

[@renatopereira2315]

@@roddeazevedo Yeah im sure that the portuguese government then a member of NATO was very friendly towards Moscow (??????). You fascists dont even pretend to know what you are talking about ....

[@chriss780]

@@roddeazevedo Falangist freak

[@vascomanteigas9433]

Within historic terms, the first era of Salazar regime was like a Second Regeneration period (similar to the Sá de Bandeira authoritarian Government during the 19th Century Monarchy), creating the judicial and beaucratic legislation and buildings after a long 40 years hiatus. The Later Monarchy and First Republic had been a very unstable period, which the international environment plays an huge role. Once the WW2 ends, Salazar refused either to leave or perform political reform, and this become more evident on 1950 and 1960 decade when the economy starts to interchange with the outside, and the a new generation starts to dismiss the ancient dictator. Around 1970, the Youth follows the Rolling Stones over Salazar, and a nascent Middle classes demands social and political rights. Caetano was no Suarez, otherwise it could started to dismantle the old regime straight on 1971 and dismiss the ultras. The Revolution of 1974 was inevitable to perform the necessary rupture. Even on Spain, any same beaucrat knew that Franco was done, and reformation was inevitable.

[@Game_Hero]

Thank you for this outstanding episode! The quality and how it was so effectively able to give a fair but not blind view of a society I knew nothing about in multiple areas is nothing short of amazing.

[@renatopereira2315]

Fair ? Yeah I mean if we ignore some obvious omissions like concentration camps, how Salazar was a big fanboy of Mussolini and even had a portrait of him in his ministerial desk, a couple of bombing campaings in angola which used napalm to delete whole villages, the rabid persecution and incarceration of all democrats but especially the communists who organized in clandestine conditions and were able to resist the entire dictatorship all the while printing and distributing the ONLY uncensored press in the country at the time (its journal Avante!). Oh and lest we forget that Salazar's Portugal was the only country in the world to oficicially have a period of national mourning (3 days) for the death of Hitler .... The totally not fascist and totally not Mussolini fanboy regime declared national mourning for HITLER yes.... the only country That is to say keep exploring, this video did a pretty bad job at painting a fair and complete image of the regime and portuguese society under it.

[@Game_Hero]

@@renatopereira2315 I very much knew he was a fascists dictator (fascist love fascists of their fellow big daddy club of their time, they were contemporaries after all, nothing I didn't knew already) who torturted anyone who pissed him off and didn't want in the slightest to give up on the imperial ventures in place like Mozambique regardless of what it took, but I was more interested in the daily life of the country for the average person like education, health, work, the whole "Lusotropicalism" that explains so much about the country's vision of itself and how it dealt with its colonies, things like that, things I didn't already know in other words. I thank you for your concerns but you don't need to worry about me missing some context (outside the Hitler day, that's a weird new thing I didn't knew about), I'm no simp for autocrats of totalitarian regimes.

[@tiagogomes3807]

​@@Game_Herodon't give Renato much attention, he is a sad commie mourning for the Soviet Union... Lusotropicalism theory was developed in Brazil. Portugal embraced it as it was convenient. That was not how Portugal saw itself. The portuguese relation with their colonies was that they were no colonies, they were part of Portugal. And the people in the colonies saw themselves as portuguese as well. In Mozambique the vast majority of soldiers fighting the war were from Mozambique, defending their home against an invasion. When the uprising began protestors had machetes. By the end of the indepence war they had Fighter Jets... And after independence the civil war kept going for decades. It was never about independence, it was about natural resources wealth and who would steal it. The Soviet Union ended before the Mozambique Civil War so by the time there was a cease-fire there was no one to explore the resources nor any means left to do so, just destruction and abject poverty.

[@and15re1]

Finally - I've been waiting for this episode for years

[@popowazhere]

Thank you!! Been asking for this for so long.

[@nicholasfoy5401]

Was thinking about how great a video this would be. So glad it’s here!

[@Cybonator]

Interesting bit on the diplomatic relationships at the end of the regime: Portugal was in talks with Apartheid SA and Rhodesia to formalize an alliance in the region of Southern Africa with an HQ building in Pretoria. It was due to be announced but the coup changed everything when the new leaders ended the wars in Mozambique and Angola.

[@renatopereira2315]

Yes and later apartheid South Africa would invade Angola which the MPLA was able to fight back with help from Cuban troops who intervened on the side of Angola against South Africa. Cuban presence continued for many years as a guarantee of Angola's independence. To this day there are baseball fields in Angola due to the cuban troops liking of the sport

[@chriss780]

​@@renatopereira2315 Good for Cuba for helping to kill apartheid.

[@puraLusa]

That wasn't going to work. Portuguese rulling class at the time (and aince always) wasn't a skin shade and thus portuguese oficials were discriminated in SA, one of which my dad cause he was too brown to be treated as the officer he was. Imagine this happening often and voilá deal dead.

[@puraLusa]

​@@chriss780meanwhile it presents it's own inside cuba, 🤣

[@jimtaylor294]

​​@puraLusa Yup. Cuba - under the Castros & Batista before them - has always treated its populace worse than SA or S-Rhodesia did.

[@tinglestingles]

I've been living in Portugal for 16 months, and these years are very raw for the older generation here. No one wants to talk about these times. The only remembrances seem to be the street names - our own street is named after a young military officer who died in Angola.

[@Gman539]

Salazar was a hero who died with nothing after ruling for almost 50 years. The reason you hear little about him is because the left/communists have been gaining power and influence since the fall of the Estado Novo, so of course they want you to forget about all the Communists and traitors that Salazar jailed or deported to Brazil and other places.......

[@Fred_the_1996]

⁠​⁠@@Gman539rapaz, nao sabes do que falas😂

[@Gman539]

@@Fred_the_1996 eu bem sei, voce nao sabe a verdade, sabes ser ou papagaiu dos comnistas.....

[@Vancofe]

​@@Gman539the "traitors" were just like Salazar... they were people they were the poor and the hungry who wanted a better country for them and their people. Whats the value of money in the vaults if the people are dying ?

[@91chaves]

@@Gman539 A person who allows their country to starve is hardly a hero.

[@mysticonthehill]

I have been really looking forward to this episode. So glad it was produced as I learnt a lot I wasn't thitherto aware of.

[@greybeaver8300]

Thank you! I'm glad this topic is being covered

[@patbrown911]

Very good job on explaining the overall situation of Portugal after the war. Of course you would have to need way more time to get to the details.

[@yugo1690]

I'm glad to see this video! I read about the Estado Novo a lot

[@lego501stTrigger]

over the years I have watched this channel, the opening track has always perfectly suited the constant stress and existential dread of the cold war. each bar tells the story of the various crises and events of the era, with each increase in pitch representing the rise of tensions between various groups, and then the final decrease bringing the final detente to bring the doomsday clock those few precious minutes and hours back. All the while feeling like a constant buildup is occurring, as the sides in the Cold War continued stockpiling and strengthening for what they viewed as an inevitable final clash. Whoever picked it has a serious talent.

[@brunotorres7332]

Great footage and you done your work 💯 learned a lot too👍

[@bennorwood8433]

Can you also do a video about Portuguese Guinea-Bissau during the Cold War since there is a lack of videos on it

[@EnzoFerrari63193]

'Sostiene Pereira' (Pereira maintains in the English version) is a book and also a movie, starring Marcello Mastroianni, about Salazar's dictature.

[@timfronimos459]

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[@EnzoFerrari63193]

​@@timfronimos459 Esatto

[@Tusiriakest]

What a cool episode. Didn't knew the channel, but now I have subscribed;)

[@morgan97475]

Love this channel👍

[@youxkio]

Very well explained. Greetings of a Portuguese in Taiwan. Great documentary. Great quality.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I also remember reading an article about Henry Kissinger pressing the Portuguese leaders to leave the colonies because of the process of decolonization established since Truman's speech for developing underdeveloped countries. Portugal was a particular case that, as a NATO member, was also a colonizer while most European countries were giving up their colonies. France was, however, the most difficult country to hand over their colonies.

[@ashleyupshall7641]

The biography of Salazar by Tom Gallagher is well worth reading. He was a complex character in uncertain times and tried to tread a difficult path. Many people were brutally suppressed by him though.

[@renatopereira2315]

Wdym tried to tread a difficult path ? He was a dictator. What are you trying to get at ? Its like you want to be apologetic of him but dont have the courage to follow through

[@tigas4d4]

@@renatopereira2315 he gave all he had to help the portuguese people and our country, there were mistakes but he did save us from alot worse

[@renatopereira2315]

@@tigas4d4 I am portuguese. What you just said is complete horse shit.

[@cyberpunkfalangist2899]

​@@tigas4d4he and Franco were heroes

[@danials1447]

brother he literally formed units in the police whose sole job was hunting down and killing gay people. what fucking hard path are you talking about?

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video

[@tiagogomes3807]

Very detailed video. Thanks

[@shehansenanayaka3046]

Brilliant documentary. This is a brilliant series. We know it take lot of time and hard work to make these videos. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love and appreciation from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

What were the Portuguese Thinking, As The Weakest European Military Power, They Should Have Decolonized In 1945

[@AshurbanipalSonofAshurhaddon]

The Portuguese possessions in the Indian Subcontinent were never part of India, they had their own Christian Hindu-Portuguese culture and identity. The Indian Union had no legitimate claim to those territories and shouldn't have been allowed to take them by the International Community. Like it happened in East Timor, regarding Indonesia's illegal land grab, the International Community should have organized a referendum in Portuguese India to let its people decide its own future (remaining Portuguese, becoming independent countries or becoming part of the Indian Union). Today, the culture of Portuguese India is fading away and under attack by the Hindu extremists, to the point that BJP, the party of the current prime-minister is openly insisting in the idea that all Portuguese legacy should be erased, namely that the splendorous Catholic Churches of Goa should be demolished and replaced by Hindu temples. The Portuguese language is no longer taught there (being even surpassed by English) with the exception of some Portuguese courses promoted by the Orient Foundation (Fundação Oriente).

[@mr.incogniton9478]

Hindu extremists are more in north india where communal riots happen aftermath of partition hindu and muslim. South Indians are mostly secular no riots, Hyderabad is an example of harmony lot of Muslims live together with Hindus .

[@mr.incogniton9478]

Goa was a trading post and never a expansion of Portugal Bassein was lost to maratha empire in 1737, the Portuguese never claim bassein back

[@isalutfi]

Menyimak. Terima kasih sudah berbagi

[@Ghostworld_]

Thanks for the upload, never really hear about him.

[@marioribeiro886]

As a Portuguese, I'm very happy for this video :) but one thing... while the economy was blooming, the people were starving, miserable wages and this in the cities, while in the interior things were even worse, not to mention the high rate of illiteracy, as well as high repression by the fascist regime.

[@HispaniaGothorum]

In other words, you are communist...

[@renatopereira2315]

As a Portuguese I am very angry at this video exactly for the same reasons you just stated. This video makes Salazar's regime look like a harmless little thing when in reality, as we Portuguese know and learn, it was a fascist dictatorship that relied on the oppression and starvation of the rural and urban poor, political terror against any political party opposed to Salazar and the super-exploitation of the African population which were effectively treated as serfs (treated as serfs in the 1960's ....). Of course coming from an American content creator we couldnt expect more than covering up support of america's fascist allies and the idea that "corporate profits high = good economy for everyone".

[@marioribeiro886]

@@renatopereira2315 por isso mesmo dei aquele apontamento. Não vivi aquele tempo, mas os meus pais sim e sabem bem o que passaram, o meu pai até esteve na Índia a quando da invasão e esteve como prisioneiro de guerra e quando voltou foi tratado como um traidor. Enfim. E ainda há "gente" que quer estes tempos de volta!

[@henrimichelpierreplana4332]

This is something I also was surprised. During the 60s, I know that portugese emigrated to france to work mainly in the construction industry ( building the new suburbs in french cities, in particular Paris). I guess if they emigrated it was because the Salazar regime was not that rosy..

[@marioribeiro886]

@@henrimichelpierreplana4332 yes, many also run to other countries to evade going to the war. Sadly many now support the new fascist party here.

[@bluefanofeverything4329]

I really love your channel. The Cold War really has a very detailed History that affects other countries too other than the US, USSR, Korea, Vietnam, etc. How about covering Brazil and the Philippines during this time? How about the 1968 riots that happened all over the world?

[@diegoyanesholtz212]

Argentina and Chile was very important in the cold war.

[@padghd]

Great documentary 👏🏼

[@luisaugusto1033]

17:36 "...maybe with a nice..." a nice what? Subtitles are late but the subject is my favorite. > Obrigado David

[@getsmart3701]

Thank you for this, I've waited a long time for a good review of the Salazar dictatorship.

[@marco1963]

Great episode. You managed to cover very well several aspects of the Estado Novo.

[@alexandruchira184]

Wow,love you guys

[@NayibBukelePortugal]

¡Gracias!

[@vascolopes9998]

Finally a Portuguese episode ^^

[@guieguima]

Good video, however you did include a map of colonies at the start whi h included terrotories that were long gone from portuguese hands by the time of salazar, notably brazil.

[@puraLusa]

Noticed that 2 😂

[@januhlir7800]

Thanks!

[@bennorwood8433]

Can you do a episode about Northern Rhodesia during the Cold War and the route to independence for Zambia

[@phillippereira955]

My parents are from Portugal I’m from United States. They migrated here after the fall of the regime. My father was a soldier in the colonial war in the Angolan theater Indoor some torture for his reluctance to go until he finally did

[@infraredimmortalerth]

My father avoided conscription by saying his leg Is broken lol

[@byu1213]

My grandparents were very hard workers and sneaked out of Portugal into France during the regime to escape poverty, a lot of poor people lived in a shithole state, some even slept on boats. Everything felt so advanced in Paris but their children grew up to detest it and some migrated back to Portugal when they grew up. I think they would've been better if they went to the US instead but idk!

[@diogorodrigues747]

This is probably the best video of the Estado Novo here on the Internet. It's the most unbiased video I saw until now, as it puts the somewhat good things and the bad things about the Salazar regime, without the bias coming from the far right or far left (which is unfortunatelly very common in this type of content).

[@renatopereira2315]

You must be joking. Saying this video was an unbiased assesment of our country is like saying a video about nazi germany that doesnt mention the holocaust is a good unbiased assesment of said country. This video mostly focused on the """good""" sides of Salazars regime while mentioning the bad things only in passing without detail. It was an account wholy disinterested with bringing a faithful image of the regime to light

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@renatopereira2315 OK, you're partially right.

[@br3menPT]

@@renatopereira2315 em 2023 ainda é assim....para mt "democrata" de vão de escadas não há aspectos positivos da governação de salazar...foi tudo mau. So vale diabolizar....e pronto la vamos cantando e rindo como nos últimos 50 anos onde ate uma romenia da vida nos vai ultrapassar......

[@skurinski]

​@@renatopereira2315calm down commie

[@skurinski]

​@@diogorodrigues747he isnt

[@firbolg]

My father was arrested by the political police (PIDE) when he was 15 yo for refusing to kneel before the parish priest. He was sent to prison but luckily, my grandfather was still an influential man, despite having left the country a broken man, after his company went bankrupt and was absorbed by Effacec, and managed to get my father to France. That was still not safe, since Paris had hundreds of Portuguese PIDE agents and as he was active politically and engaged in fighting the regime, he only knew some modicum of safety when after 1974. My father's recollection might have been embellished but I believe is mostly accurate. It is corroborated by the rest of the family. My uncle wasn't as lucky and was forced to fight in the war and was left with PTSD and other issues.

[@micaeloliveira2727]

Thank you for keeping alive our beautiful history. Hope Portugal can grow to be influential/ helpful in his own community. The Portuguese speaking countries are somehow forgotten but we have peace and social understanding something rare in Africa. I will do my part in being a productive and helping develop the Portuguese community around the world ( just having a farm and do proximity distribution) My love to all ancient Portuguese colonies ❤❤❤❤❤ ❤ you're all welcome in Portugal let's build a better and stronger community. Hope i can be happy in Africa

[@lcparq1]

Simple, plain and quite unbiased... Having family spread all over the five continents and being born in 1956... being old is a privilege of having experienced the "before" and the "After" fully and in the flesh... Your documentary will surely be a wise source for younger people who only have our "left-biased" history books and info. Thank you for presenting "both sides".

[@creatoruser736]

Wait, Portugal couldn't afford to buy American cotton so they turned to colonial cotton, which textile mills didn't like because it was more expensive?

[@puraLusa]

Yes. American cotton was already established and mass produced and the sea journey was faster. Colonial enterprise meant investment before return and with only 1 buyer, also a lot less return from the investment than its american counterpart.

[@jimtaylor294]

Similar problem to what the UK had with Cotton options during the US Civil War; US Cotton was cheaper & plentiful overall to get, as well as better quality than what India could produce at the time.

[@br3menPT]

thats why Portugal had such a strong textile sector....

[@avatardele]

What he meant was that the colonies were integrated into Portugal's monetary system,so buying cotton from them didn't require scarce dollars(or any hard currency). I don't think he researched thoroughly the Portuguese colonial economic system,the details he gave here are rather elementary.

[@joaocosta3374]

​@@avatardelebingo.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

This seemed very fair. Thank you.

[@top_gallant]

Estado Novo even has its own style of architecture.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative historical coverage video about Portugal 🇵🇹 history and its linked with WW2 and the Cold War effectiveness on the Portugal 🇵🇹 Empire .. How's earliest European imperial power was not able to adopt modernized imperial political, economic, and commercial dominant overseas. So, gradually toppled its authoritative over its colonials while communism China 🇨🇳 backed rebellions against Portuguese, especially in Maccaw and Angola 🇦🇴 ... all this information was rarely known...thank you for sharing

[@generalbenjaminarrola340]

A união soviética apoiou a independência, os EUA e ocidente apoiaram o colonialismo, que a Rússia vença essa guerra, que o ocidente arda em chamas. 😂

[@fk_yu]

​@@generalbenjaminarrola340está dito no video que os estados unidos e o ocidente também apoiaram a independência das colonias, e diz também que Portugal ficou isolado diplomaticamente portanto estás a falar besteiras. Isso é fanatismo teu. Hoje apoias a russia que quer fazer da Ucrânia uma colonia. É preciso ser muito burro para estar na tua posição. Apoias a libertação na África mas não apoias uma Ucrânia que quer ser livre e independente para fazer as suas escolhas. És um burro do c.rlho como dizemos aqui em Portugal

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@generalbenjaminarrola340 - Na realidade não, os EUA também apoiavam a independência das ex-colónias portuguesas e chegaram até a cortar alguns laços com Portugal. Quem efetivamente não apoiava era o regime do Estado Novo e um ou outro Estado pária espalhado pelo mundo; - Não sei de onde é que veio essa tirada pró-russa acerca da atualidade, mas defenderes uma guerra puramente imperialista com base em premissas falsas, ao mesmo tempo que defendes a soberania dos povos, é um bocado hipócrita.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

The Portuguese was adapting, slowly. It was also American backed.

[@generalbenjaminarrola340]

@@diogorodrigues747 hipócrita é apoiar os EUA, quem começou a apoiar a independência dos países africanos foi a união soviética, que a Rússia fique forte pra destruir os EUA no futuro.

[@RS-lw1hz]

Thanks for covering this piece of my country's history. Is there any chance you are able to cover the crisis of 25th of November 1975, since this was very political and an important mark in Portugal's history during the Cold War, that to this day is barely taught in Portuguese schools?

[@tiagogomes3807]

It's hard to teach what is not known... To this day almost no one knows what happened in that day. Not even the ones participating in it. After the actors die and their memories are published we can have a better understanding of what happened at the 25th of November...

[@renatopereira2315]

@@tiagogomes3807 Lol. We can already paint a very good picture of what happened on the 25th of November 1975 and almost all the actors involved have written memoirs or literally died already so there is literally no excuse why you couldn't know what happened as long as you go out and buy the correct books ....

[@pnutz_2]

16:50 according to legend the coup was coordinated to start during Portugal's song at Eurovision

[@goncalodias6402]

Its true. The song was used to signal to the troops to start the coup.

[@ItJuM856]

Good stuff never knew

[@Mr.Nichan]

17:08 "41 years ... the longest enduring dictatorship in the history of Europe" This relies heavily on very limited definitions of the words "dictatorship" and "Europe".

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

It was a dictatorship and Portugal is in Europe. What's wrong with calling things by their names.

[@ptrgreeny]

Thank you! Salazar is someone I find interesting....but very few English YT videos exist.

[@Mickey_Valentine]

He was a scummbag and a pawn of the city of london corporation banks .... the reason he is misterious and little to be known about him was due the fascist regime being ruled from the outside by bankers and NATO anti communist ( much fascist ) front. Matter of fact , the USA/UK used portugal during the salazar regime to print out literature on fascism and rebel militia that ended up training most militias in Africa over the red scare

[@terenceflanagan1225]

I was at school in Lisbon during the carnation revolution..our neighbor was in the national guard and picked me up at school in an apc..pretty exciting

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

Lisbon was very interesting to see, some parts that have remained old and remnants of Salazar, like the prominent army recruitment center in the centre or Fado music. And then you have modern buildings and culture.

[@foxen1914]

4 years of school is insane. That was less than we had in the late 1800s in some places. We had 9 at that point. But mayby most people took around 10 years of school even tho mandatory was is more acurate. Cant comprehend a person having 4 years of school in Western europe by the time by dad was born. Thanks for great context from political science student in Scandinavia.

[@renatopereira2315]

Its very easy to comprehend. Salazar's regime was a fascist regime predicated strongly on keeping Portugal's rural and urban population as poor and as uneducated as possible (and also deeply religious if possible)

[@foxen1914]

@@renatopereira2315 yes I get that but 4 years of school is less than the Taliban let girls have. Its insane in 4th grade i cant do shit. Not even basic multiplucation with numbers above 10. Its not posibule to be a good modern adult with that litte education.

[@renatopereira2315]

@@foxen1914 Yes and no. It is true that its basically Taliban levels of education but that shouldnt be surprising if you understand portuguese (and spanish for that matter) fascism. Iberian fascism in particular has a very strong component of religious fundamentalism so really they are more like the Taliban than you would expect. The same discrimination that Taliban have towards women in school was also shared to a large extent by portuguese fascism which often resulted in women not even going to school and when they did go they very rarely did more than the 4 year minimum. That said my grandmother who did in fact only study for 4 years knew perfectly well how to do basic arithmetic (add, subtract, multiply and divide) she even taught me to do division when I was young. 4 years was of course stupidly low but not the same as nothing

[@SuperBadadan]

Are all Scandinavians as delusional and sheltered as you?

[@antoniovarela4444]

Yep its true. Im Portuguese. All, but one, of my grand parents (born around 1914) couldn't read/write. And the only one that could read/write, attended 2 years of school. In those times, children were needed for working. And my parents (and almost everybody of their generation - mid 1940´s) attended only 4 years. And in a school that only demanded that they fixed many, many, many useless things. And not stimulate curiosity/experiment at all. Fortunately i´m from the 1st generation of Portuguese, that were not necessary to work, nor had to follow the silly 4 years mandatory schol of the "Estado Novo". I was attending a class in 1st grade, when the 25-04-1974 happened. And things changed a lot since then in this area. You cant comprehend, but its really easy to explain - dictatorship. Where there is dictatorship, good things never happen!

[@Barricade379]

I been friends with a Portuguese for almost 10 years now and sometimes Salazar and the Carnation Revolution comes up

[@wiktorberski9272]

That was a quite interesting topic/movie for me

[@Zorglub1966]

The 25th of April 1975, i was 8, i was living in Paris, and i remember absolutly nothing of this revolution, (i heard about if few years later) while i have remembrance of Saigon's fall. That amazes me each time i think about it, we had newspapers, radio, TV., how could i have missed out on something so important? Even without understanding the event.

[@puraLusa]

Cause portugal was a small unimportant country in south europe. French media was more interested in stuff happening regarding the new power on the block, usa.

[@sicko_the_ew]

And then Angola and Mozambique lived happily ever after. The End. :D I don't know what your take on all this is, or how deep you've dug/ how much this is partly someone else's problem to you, so I'm just indicating what I think is a phenomenon illustrating how difficult it is to fully think (as opposed to feel, or be-nice, as we all do so much. As I'm doing here, since it's largely just a feeling that feels like intuition to me.) The code historians of all kinds use talk about these wars is, itself an interesting Cold War relic that perhaps one day a new generation of historians not involved in some terrain of Struggle (like a university cafeteria, after the tray has been handed in at the wash bay) might enjoy picking apart, eviscerating, and thus rendering interesting in its own way. I suppose that depends on the extent to which enforcers of correct thinking are more active than dabblers, and trivial scholars like that are. (With organization, although there's not some kind of deep conspiracy that paranoia would suggest, the natural desire of people of all kinds to be socially agreeable can act as perhaps a kind of "attractor" in the academic chaos that would result from an more even diversity of opinion. So what you get is historians who don't at all follow any Party line, still encoding their thoughts in ways they were trained in by people influenced to various degrees by the more active and deliberate "mind warriors" who "fight" that kind of encoding through to the top of the elite pile of ways of superior analysis in better ways than inferior alternatives. (Sorry, I like to speak stupidly. I don't have enough attachment to any alternative of my own to do more than wimple a little at the drudge words I've had to drag my way through to get credits in filler courses long ago.) Nothing wrong with the courses,as such, or even the pressure to think correctly about things, even - especially since quite a bit of truth was used to push that case. It's just the attitude that started it all, that's all.

[@c4knowledge562]

Fun fact: The current prime minister of Portugal is of Indian descent ( Goa)

[@Fred_the_1996]

O primeiro-gatuno😂

[@tknl27yk]

who cares.He is corrupt like the other p0rtuguese cl0wns.ALso p0rtuguese should be kicked out of brazil like they were out of india. P0rtuguese are notorious for oppressing native americans.

[@carloscorreia491]

Puta que pariu, tinha que deixar merda

[@jalexvd7037]

This didn’t aged well

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Nice

[@wernervanderwalt8541]

The Carnation Revolution set the tables for abject misery for the inhabitants of Mozambique and Angola. The conflict between the MPLA and UNITA in Angola would become a proxy war for the USA and USSR.

[@iraigiacomelli5077]

Viva Salazar!!! Grandioso Líder!!!

[@morrisminor56]

As an 11 year old school boy from England I was in Lisbon in may that year, things had not been entirely peaceful, I remember seeing bullet holes here and there from the month before.

[@matraquilhochumbo352]

I have to congratulate you for mentioning the real reason for the April 25th coup and not perpetuating the myth that the real reason for the coup was to implement democracy.

[@rfvtgbzhn]

7:53 it should be added that the reduction of the growth rate was not a consequence of the Carnation Revolution, but concidentally happened at the same time. The actual reason was a workdwide economic crisis.

[@TheKingoftheriff]

The mass leftwing nationalisation didn't disrupt the national economy?

[@TimSerras]

I was born in 1954, in Mozambique, then an overseas province of Portugal. I went to school, we had all kinds of pupils, white, black, brown, yellow, catholic, muslim, hindu, buddhist, etc. Portuguese Youth (Mocidade Portuguesa) was a compulsary discipline, where boys learned patriotism, bushcraft, sailing, marching, etc., and girls knitting, cooking, child raising etc. It was a highly conservative society. Respect was universal. Poor black kids belonged to “caixa”, free food, clothing, etc. There was no famine, whenever a natural disaster occurred, government response was quick and effective. No NGO crap was needed. Crime was virtually zero. Rhodesians and South Africans flocked to Mozambican beaches and restaurants to enjoy good food, fun and fiesta. Towns were clean. Hospitals had real doctors, ambulances worked, medicine was available. Today, 2024 kids go to school under a mango tree, hungry. If a girl wants to pass the exam, she may have to sleep with the teacher. Crime and drugs rule the country. NGO’s spend most time in good expensive restaurants. Polititians are corrupt. Police is corrupt. Judges are corrupt. It is one of the poorest in Africa. In 1974 it was the 7th economy, only behind SA, Rhodesia, Angola in subsahara Africa. So, Salazar wasn’t that bad. Definately better then the baboons that rule today.

[@barrosmartins7123]

Good content, unbiased… there was good and bad things within EN… one event that’s still relevant today is the 1966 bridge that was finished early then scheduled and fully paid; the opposite of today public investments.

[@macariomatira3234]

Can you do a feature episode about the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos and Indonesia under Suharto

[@100domathon]

THE ESTADO NOVO REGIME OF PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF NATO IN 1949

[@theSupercasa]

Why does this text come completely from wikipedia?

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

Wikipedia is a right-wing mafia.

[@jwb_666]

Oh boy this is going to be painful...

[@silveriorebelo2920]

so much fantasist history - it's just incredible

[@michellecrocker2485]

I remember an episode of Anthony Bourdain in Lisbon. An episode of No Reservations had a scene where he was talking to a man who had lived during Salazar’s dictatorship and the effect of that time was such that the man had as a habit, covering his mouth when he talked because everyone from that time had adopted caution so as not to be seen as speaking out against Salazar

[@Joseph-ax999]

When I was in high school in the mid 60's one of our teachers felt that a "benevolent dictatorship" was the best form of government. And he often mentioned Salazar. So I was quite eager to finally listen to this.

[@didacclivilleoriol7057]

compared to what we have now Franco and Salazar were better

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@didacclivilleoriol7057 epa, nao sei, hoje em dia é fixe nao ir para a cadeia por discordar com o governo😅

[@duruarute5445]

@@didacclivilleoriol7057 Não acredito que aches isso

[@Vancofe]

​@@didacclivilleoriol7057If you wanted to get tortured for having an opinion Salazar was the best time to have one :)

[@seppukupt1]

@@didacclivilleoriol7057 vai-te encher de moscas pah

[@rf64]

Oh I remember very well " Teleescola" .

[@emsouemsou]

"The winds of time were blowing in the opposite direction, that of decolonization" This is a gross misunderstanding of the forces involved for and against decolonization. It's like claiming "the winds of time" were responsible for ending World War II.

[@nicbahtin4774]

What a chad

[@stupidminotaur9735]

you did not speak about the Goa people likening the Portuguese people/soldiers, which was an embarrassment to india

[@puraLusa]

Cause portugal was the rulling class for many centuries that the population was used. The one's who actually identifies as portuguese went to portugal proper and it's descendants are still there. It's from this comunity that the present prime minister is from.

[@br3menPT]

@@puraLusa CALE-SE não tem vergonha de mentir assim???? A esmagadora maioria dos goeses nunca quis fazer parte da india...Não minta a esmgadora maioria nao conseguiu sair de Goa....quem cosneguiu foi para Moçanbique ou Angola

[@flowerbear_]

Liking .. yeah sure , why wouldn't they ..after hundreds of thousands of hindu Indians were killed off

[@tknl27yk]

spreading lies and propganda is n@ture of p0rtuguese s@vages .The reality is portuguese along with spanish were brutal s @v@ges who were notorious for their gen0cide in asia,americas,africa etc. india eventually tired of gen 0cide by portuguese eventually k lled evil p0rtuguese and liberated the region and the population celebrated indian soldiers defeating evil portuguese.But even in modern era portuguese occupy brazil shamelessly. INdians under portugal regularly talk about horrors under gen0cidal p0rtuguese . But according to p0rtuguese bu f00ns all the colonies belong to portugal since ancient era which is totally false.They did the same with india but indias punished p0rtugal and kicked them out of india. Hopefully india also liberate br@zil and also indians should c0l0nise p0rtugal and treat portuguese the same way portuguese treated their c0l0nies. Then these vi le p0rtuguese will learn to accept truth .

[@gaiusoctavius6107]

It’s still so weird seeing his voice attached to a body

[@garcia2036]

why is 9:11 the most replayed part of the video 🤔🧐

[@lucasvargasrosa2377]

will you talk about the new state in Brazil and Getúlio Vargas?

[@AgrippaMaxentius]

Ola do Alentejo

[@miguelthegamer]

Wow! Political decisions that actually make sense in education. Our current government could learn something.

[@adrianwhyatt1425]

Portugal also profited from trade with the Axis, especially Germany, during World War 2. Despite its neutrality, the Dutch and the Australians occupied the Portuguese colony of East Timor. The Japanese then invaded. After lndonesian invasion it finally achieved independence in 2002, the final end of Portuguese overseas rule.

[@pedrovasconcelos3204]

Now we see.. 50 years later Salazar was right.

[@mou6854]

🤡🤡

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

He was not. He was a tyrant, a monster and a paedophile.

[@fabiorosario3501]

VIVA SALAZAR !!!! 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

If you miss Salazar fret not. You'll join him soon enough in Hell.

[@RKM514]

Living in South Africa during the 1980s, the 3rd white tribe was the Portuguese from Angola & Mozambique who fled to South Africa after "descolonização" instead of Portugal. South Africa during 1980s was extremely polarized, being white an American living among Afrikaaners, the anti-Communism & racism of the Apartheid Regime was unbelievable yet they had some legitimate concerns.

[@jodalinkus5538]

Well adduced drivers for change in Portuguese geopolitics.

[@Centristlol]

The Estado Novo is perhaps one of the most interesting topics in history. It’s perhaps one of the most controversial topics despite being geopolitically irrelevant. Portugal is also a pet interest of mine, so it is nice to see it getting some notoriety.

[@br3menPT]

being geopolitically irrelevant....lol not even one superpower treated Portugal as a total irrelevant country....

[@sheogorath6804]

"Geopolitically irrelevant" Here are three facts: 1) The Portuguese Tungsten mines were responsible for almost all the Tungsten used by Germany. If Portugal cut the Tungsten supply, Germany would've never been able to go into total war economy. 2) The Lajes Base in the Azores is the main reason America and Canada were able to make it to Europe, since having a resupply port in the middle of the Atlantic meant the ships would be in better fighting shape and the troops would be better fed and have more moral. 3) The only country allowed to keep Nazi Gold besides Switzeland was Portugal, and during the war, due to the previous two facts I mentioned, it was accepted that whatever side of the war Portugal joined would have a major advantage.

[@Centristlol]

@@sheogorath6804 I mean post war, pre war, Portugal was an incredibly strategically important nation. But once WWII was over, it became a relic

[@sheogorath6804]

@@Centristlol Fair enough then but the war did happen under Estado Novo and Salazar's rule which is why I interpreted your statement the way I did. But also to be fair, it was relevant enough for Russia, China and the USA, at the same time, to fuck with Portugal constantly until 1974

[@Manic_Panic]

@@sheogorath6804 Now we are a satellite state of the US, just like most of Europe. Though it was either that or the Soviets (at the time) because of the silly revolution. As Marcelo Caetano once said before he died: "Without the Overseas Territories we are reduced to indigence, that is, to the charity of rich nations, so it is ridiculous to continue talking about national independence. For a nation that was on the verge of becoming a small Switzerland, the revolution was the beginning of the end. What we have left is the sun, tourism, chronic poverty and emigration, but only for as long as they last. We will now buy raw materials from the powers that have taken possession of them, at the price that the laudable sellers decide to set. This is the price the Portuguese will have to pay for their illusions of freedom."