What do we think about Antonio Salazar?Was he a good dictator?
>>18522330>good>dictator
considering that poortugal was a shithole with the lowest literacy rate in western europe during the end of his reign he must have been pretty shitty.ideolizing him and Franco is just for "safe edgy" catholicuck zoomers option instead of going full fascist or natsoc
>>18522330Franco and Salazar were so retarded they put their countries off right wing parties for like 60 years after their death
>>18522359this is how you keep a country conservative (and also why you probably shouldn't)people think you can undermine conservatism's material basis but keep it in power somehow, and they're wrong
>>18522330He's alright
>>18522387>how you keep a country conservativeneither spain or Portugal remained conservative thought, it's how you create a backlash against your ideology
>>18522559>neither spain or Portugal remained conservative thought, it's how you create a backlash against your ideologyBacklash only in Portugal (economic ruin, the Angolan war with mandatory military service for several years, etc.); late social engineering in Spain. Franco was massively acclaimed till his last breath. Then the traitors took over and the rest is (infamous) history...https://youtu.be/PsghTBRexIM
>>18522359>muh literacyOf all the arguments to discredit his rule I have no idea why I see this horseshit one every time
>>18522330A great man of history, no doubt about it. He found portugal a poor, agricultural nation and left it a modern, developed state, the first european empire held firm as the last european empire 500 years after its founding.
>>18522349Yes? Plenty of good dictators throughout history.
>>18522366by being efficient? man, the people are dumb af and voting should be banned.
>>18522359To be fair Franco was the one who turned Spain from being Africa-tier in the 1950s to becoming a wealthy first-world country in the 1970s, even tho it happened at the twilight of his life.
>>18522366Salazar wasnt strictly bad. He brought political, social and economic stability to Portugal.The main criticism is that he was a dictator, but that's about it. He was a Pinochet of his time (or Xi Jinping if you'd like). There will always be a debate whether dictatorship can justify stability and growth.
