On the 25th of April 1974, in Portugal, the Armed Forces Movement left their barracks towards Lisbon; and there they toppled the dictatorial regime of the New State.Today it's the 50th anniversary of that event.
>>16547991>carnation>can't even afford roses like all self respecting commiesfucking Poortugal has to cheap out even during the most glorious revolution. No class.
soiboy uprising
Reminder many people at the day thought at first that it was a coup by the extreme-right (like it had happened in Greece) with the purpose of putting Kaulza de Arriaga in power, increasing the dictatorship and going harder on the guerillas in Africa. As if it were a reaction to the failed coup of 11 March that year
>>16547991fucking based, we even have the same liberation day
>>16548009>can't even afford roses like all self respecting commiesTbf, the carnations were all gifted by local sellers, on the spot. They had no other choice and just went with them.
>>16548043Maybe it would have been for the better, if it were.
>>16548019>unprofitable colonies want indipendence>spend thousand of portoguese youths in a useless war>ruin the economy so much that the whole working class turns against you>military and workers ally with your lifelong enemies and coup youLiteral skill issue, no wonder portugal wanted that salazarist clique out
>Yup, another iberberian thread shitting up the board.Shut the fuck up about your moor raped country already. YWNBW
>>16548131Shut up, faggot
>>16548112The economy was fine The military just wanted more gibs
>>16548205Stop spamming your shitty iberian pride faggot threads every day then
>>16548098Ok that makes a better story, thank you for clarifying. I only commented because some lefty parties in Europe have the rose as their symbol.
>>16548131>>16548226You sound genuinely deranged anon. Have you ever considered the possibility that life on Earth would be more pleasant if you werent a part of it?
>>16549384Well here is no different, in fact.
What are these crackers doing in Poortugal
>>16549527Nothing decent. They should have been sent to the colonies to fight the black rebels.
>>16548225Thats not what happened. Commies infiltrated the military academies in the years prior and secured lower leadership positions.
>>16547993Wow. Ton of nogs in lisbon back then. I guess moortuguese were turned brown only just recently, rather than thousands of years ago like >>16548131 these retards keep claiming.
>>16549579>Commies infiltrated the military academiesNo, the regime had to expand the numbers of officers due to the war, so they started recruiting from the common people and not exclusively from the richer classes that traditionally make up the officer corps.And not every Captain in the MFA was a commie, for example, Salgueiro Maia, and one from my hometown that's far right and a anti-semite.
>>16548225>The economy was fine>when most Portuguese were of low labour skill and the military had to constantly be on alert in a forever war.>still got outstripped by other empires before colonialism ended and those same empires after on top of being beaten by other non colony holding non-Euro states.
>>16549604>they started recruiting from the common people and not exclusively from the richer classes that traditionally make up the officer corps.Doesnt negate what I said. The major reason was still the communist infiltration, planned out by a micro-organization supported by the CIA. Without that problem the “common people” would not have been able to carry out this coup.>not every Captain in the MFA was a commieI didnt say they were. It was a relatively small number of officers. The government was ready to collapse after Salazar died, anyway. A United political will for the dictatorship just didn’t exist. The regime also lacked broad support from the population.
just like my latinx banana republic
