Europe's Forgotten Dictator
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- Howdy folks, sorry for the delay, but I hope it's worth it for this video! Europe has had many dictators in the 20th century, some more well known, some less. And some, much less. And so, today we're shedding some light on Europe's forgotten dictator, a man who, outside his home country, is rarely ever spoken of! Enjoy!
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In general, Portugal is sort of the “forgotten” part of Europe, even for all the colonies it had.
Sadly kinda true
@@Ivan19271 Yeah it is because Portgual is kind of a small country and I don't why Spain just annex it since it a small country.
@@benjaminobienu5297 they tried but many Spaniards were killed by the Portuguese man of war jellyfish
@@GandalftheWise By actual jellyfishes? That is what stop the Spaniards from conquering Portugal? I never jellyfishes save Portgual from being invaded Spain. How knew but is jellyfishes or warship name the Portuguese jellyfish? Am I wrong? Was it actually jellyfish, or is it warships? But thanks for that little reminder, for it helps a lot now, and I didn't know Portugal was saved by jellyfishes from Spain.
@@benjaminobienu5297 yep look up man of war jellyfish and look how deadly they are
Another reason why Salazar was forgotten was in large part he didnt like being in the public spotlight. He wasnt charismatic like Franco was, and was quite shy in comparison. That and the Spanish civil war was a huge geo political moment in history so much so that foriegn nations were watching it closely. Good vid btw.
He did go out a bit initially, going to Mass and meeting folks around his house but then there was an assassination attempt. I think it was like a decade maybe later until he came out, with rumours of marriage as he met a lady and he had always said marriage and rule was incompatible. It fell through although I think he adopted two girls.
And we are happy that he was, 25th of april forever
mainly forgotten because the modern education system doesnt allow GOOD dictators to be Recognized. Unless theres oil there of course.
Made this 420 likes
He didn't? Why was his picture all over the place? Ele não tinha dinheiro porque a cena dele era o poder
Salazar woke up after a month and regained his lucidity. This was after he was removed from power. Instead of tell him the truth, his former inner circle pretended Salazar was still Prime Minister, and convinced him to stay in his room to "rule" in private. So when Salazar approached death, he still thought he was in charge.
he knew that he was not ruling the country anymore....
@@br3menPT How would he know ifhe was shut in his home and was never told about his removal?
@@aaronTGP_3756 precisely for that. He no longer had his usual routines...meetings with ministers. Status of the war in the overseas provinces..
oh! what a plot, incredible indeed, thanks for sharing.
@@br3menPTwhat I heard he was not the guy that used to be in the spotlight regardless
I'd like to note that despite 1974's Portugal being very rich "as a country", most of that money was being spent on the Colonial War, or otherwise not being invested in ways that improved the lives of the general population.
Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter was named after him. Rowling lived in Portugal teaching English for quite some time.
Damn, all the members of Chega! Will be joining slytherin in the new Harry Potter game 😳
@@eaturcookiescookie7462 They began boycotting Slytherin when it started accepting gypsies/roma in the house😡😡😡😡😡😡
@@miguelpadeiro762 thinks a classified Chega! Classic
Who the f cares.
Also Hogwarts uniforms are inspired by portuguese academic uniforms
Salazar was a product of the Portuguese First Republic more than anything.
His entire ideology (and even the way he ran the Estado Novo) was a reflection of his personal experience in the 1st Republic. I think that most people forget that aspect when analyzing him and his views.
It's sad how Portugal has such a beautiful history yet it's always forgotten
Let's keep it that way
we like to stay under the radar 😄
Slava Ukraini, march to moscow
@@manuelcardoso3205 nope from🇵🇹
Much alike russians, we do not like foreigners to interfere in our affaires.
The portuguese don't care, lmao, they are tired of both immigrants and tourists 😂😂
Just one small thing about Brazil. The monarchy didn’t fell because of the death of the emperor, him and his family were deposed and exiled after the abolition of slavery(something they strongly gave their support to help happen).
Pedro II died two years later in 1891, in Paris, where he had a head of state’s funeral
Just to clarify, they support both the abolition and the abdication.
@@DarthFhenix55 ?
Yall brazilians always gotta bring up brazil in any video about portugal its incredible
The abolition of slavery was more of a secundary reason for the fall of the monarchy. It was the military class and the urban sectors of the society that came together in opposition of the monarchical regime. The military because they felt that the political class of the Empire was repressing the army, and the urban sectors because they felt the country was lagging behind due to corruption and economic stagnation. So they rallied under the republican movement that was gaining ground since 1870 and by the very end of the 1880's they deposed the monarchy in rushed coup d'état that ended working perfectly, and so the Republic was officially proclaimed in the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro in the evening of 15th of November 1889.
The wealthy rural oligarchy who was more affected by the abolition of slavery and was discontent with the monarchy only joined against the regime at the very end and didn't have major effect in the outcome of the ousting of the monarchy. They will however, have an important role in the country's government in the first years of the Republic tho.
@@qe9573 it's a minor correction since this myatake is very easy to make
An interesting fact about Salazar that everyone should know is that he is perhaps the only dictator (in modern history at least) that died poor. That's unreal to me. He was in power for 36 years, that's the better part of half of a century, and he never once in that time abused his power to enrich himself, he never fell into the temptation. When he was in his deathbed the government had to pay for his medicine because his bank account was nearly empty. Another fun fact, in the early 2000's there was a Portuguese TV show to vote on who was the greatest Portuguese of all time, and Salazar won.
Salazar didnt want to take the Marshall Plan´s loans and was "made" to accept them. plus I´ve heard that Portugal was the only country that repaid those loans in full
Nobody repaids all the fortune USA expends in support all over the world. US citizens always paids the bills.
He made the FNMAL Plant
In 1954 in Savavém, with Money and basiclly,he recovered
the Money back in few years,making ammo to Portugal 🇵🇹 and exported to Spain and Germany,too.
That's the reason we are so rich and developed.Visionary they say
@@ivanbarbosa81 yeah shitty argument. If you knew anything about your country's history you would know he was asked to be the finance minister (to get Portugal out of bankrupcy) and then was appointed Prime Minister on the political capital he gained from doing a good job. With that shitty optic of yours you could also blame every single King since the age of Discoveries lol. We should have been "so rich and developed" since those days.
*THE PORTUGUESE PEOPLE IN 1910:* How dare you give up our colonies! REVOLUTION!
*THE PORTUGUESE PEOPLE IN 1974:* Stop holding onto our colonies! REVOLUTION!
I didn't even notice that 💀
Colonies were a waste of money
Our job was done, it was time to let go.
@@lxportugal9343 Also capitalism changed the way of trading goods, you didn't need to have colonist to get uncommon prime matters or even made products anymore.
@@DarthFhenix55 They became Christians
There was no need to colonize anymore
@@lxportugal9343 I didn't say otherwise, but making christians wasn't the main point of making colonies. It was trade.
2:38 Actually, in Brazil, Pedro was first deposed in 1889 by a military coup and then died in exhile in France in 1891; just a little correction
Minding your own business really goes a long way
9:00 Portugal was NOT a wealthy country by 1974, at the time we were (and still are) the poorest in western europe, so that part wasn’t good
Economia crescia cima dos 6% e Portugal passou de estar a 39% da media de riqueza da europa para estar a 59%. As mehorias eram expressivas. O país tinha consolidação orçamental, economia crescia, divida representava 12% do PIB moeda era a 6º mais forte do mundo e as reservas em divisa nacional, moeda estrangeira e oura eram enormes.
@@br3menPT ya safoda a guerra na África e os milhares de putos que foram para lá lutar em vão, safoda os milhares de trabalhadores agrícolas que vivem na miséria, safoda as centenas de prisioneiros políticos e acima de tudo a cultura de medo e repressão. Pelo menos a economia estava a crescer 💪💪
@@lukegriffin2042 houve maior número de prisioneiros políticos depois do 25 de abril do que antes
@@marusdod3685 A sério?! Quem é que é preso político neste preciso momento? Explicita.
@@br3menPT *Economia crescia cima dos 6% e Portugal passou de estar a 39% da media de riqueza da europa para estar a 59%.*
Hoje em dia Portugal está a 76% da média europeia e já chegou a estar nos 85% em 2001. Portanto o problema não é o regime mas sim a quase total persistência de governos incompetentes nos últimos 20-25 anos.
É preciso também ter em conta que estamos a fazer referência a dados macroeconómicos que não eram verdadeiramente sentidos pelo povo pois grande parte do crescimento ou era gasto nos esforços da Guerra Colonial ou era perdido para as elites corruptas do regime e oligopólios. Caetano tentou mudar isso com uma espécie de "capitalismo à chinesa", mas já era tarde demais...
*divida representava 12% do PIB moeda era a 6º mais forte do mundo*
Normal que a dívida apenas representasse 12% do PIB quando não era feito quase nenhum investimento, tirando aquele para efeitos de propaganda.
Já a moeda ser forte não é verdadeiramente um argumento pois o escudo tinha um valor claramente manipulado. Assim que as ferramentas de manipulação desapareceram em 1974 o escudo colapsou e seguiram-se anos de inflação superior a 25% que só acabariam com as reformas de Cavaco Silva na década de 1980.
Portuguese-American, my parents immigrated to the US in 1969. They were both devout Catholics and thought Salazar a good man and a good president. He's not forgotten in Portugal and so far as I can tell from the older generation of my family he is remembered fondly. Certainly better than Franco.
I wonder then why your family left Portugal, because the great emigration during that time was because people were poor and suffering under this fascist rule. He is NOT remembered fondly here, and there was a revolution for a reason. April 25th is still celebrated to this day so that people do not forget the horrors of fascism. Never again.
I promise, he is not remembered fondly here, except by far right fascist groups.
@@cristinadasilva8470well, back in 2007 there was a tv program to choose the greatest portuguese ever. I can say Salazar won with more than 40% of votes. And he wasn’t originally in the list of people you could vote for, but after some polemic they were forced to ad him. So, yeah, whether you like it or not, a lot of people still see him fondly.
@@cristinadasilva8470was he really fascist though? It doesn’t seem he was under fascist ideology (like Giovanni Gentle or Mussolini philosophy)
@@cristinadasilva8470seems like a regular dictator.
@@cristinadasilva8470 Mentira. Tens de aprender história minha querida. No início Salazar do governo de Salazar, ele aumentou drasticamente a economia e melhorou imenso a vidas dos portugueses. Salazar aumentou as reservas de ouro em Portugal e quando ele foi colocado no poder a vida das pessoas melhorou imenso. No entanto, a guerra colonial arruinou tudo. Salazar despejou montes de dinheiro na guerra colonial para não perder as colónias. Ele fez isso porque se perdêssemos as colónias, tudo o que o regime dele defendia ia por cano abaixo. Já deves ter visto aquele cartaz antigo da época de Salazar que dizia "Portugal não é um país pequeno", e tinha um mapa com as nossas colónias a mostrar o quão grandes as mesmas eram. Se Portugal perdesse essas colónias, Portugal ia tornar-se um país pequeno e insignificante, e muito provavelmente iria acontecer o que aconteceu com a monarquia, o regime de Salazar seria destruído. Tu apenas aprendeste que o governo de Salazar foi mau porque é o que o governo diz, o que as escolas ensinam. Os desgraçados dos políticos do nosso país querem apenas ganhar dinheiro, não querem tornar Portugal num país melhor, não querem ser como Salazar, um dos poucos líderes republicanos portugueses que desejava o melhor para Portugal.
2:38 Dom Pedro II was deposed and died in Paris, the empire did not fell because of his death
I am portuguese and actually from Santa Comba Dão - Salazar's birthplace - and I can asure you here nobody forgot about him.
estes estrangeiros não percebem nada, pensam que sabem tudo sobre o nosso país. Salazer "esquecido"??? LOL essa é boa. eles nunca viram o twitter tuga, esquerdalhos e direitolas a falar no homem todo o santo dia e todos os dias. ambos completamente obcecados pelo Salazarismo. é doentio.
i dont think any portuguese has forgoten about him
even the bridge keeps unofficially his name...lol
Eai? O que o pessoal acha dele? Gosta ou odeia?
@@Luso-Belenense depende, os que foram perseguidos pela PIDE e enviados para o Tarrafal, não morrem de amores por ele, mas ninguem duvida que ele salvou Portugal da Banca rota causada pelos republicanos, ha quem goste e quem deteste...
You forgot to mention that, although Portugal maintained it's "neutrality" during world war two, Portugal was selling tungsten to Germany for the production of ammo, and allowed Portuguese volunteers to enrole into the Spanish Blue Division, fighting for the German Army. In the other hand, Salazar gave permission to the British to build an air base in the Azores Islands, which was then granted to the Americans.
Well, when you're a small militarily weak country in the middle of WW2 (Sweden, Switzerland, Spain) If you want to not get invaded you need to keep both sides happy. Or at the very least not make either one too upset with you. The Germans had a plan to take over Portugal, Operation Isabella. And the US and British considered occupying the Azores the way they did Iceland.
Salazar is a poor businessman with the powerful ones: Germany, Spain, British, and USA.
He also allowed over a million people to flee the Reich Occupied Europe through Lisbon. Right under the noses of Allied AND Axis intelligence. He did as much as he could for the greater good while walking on a tightrope and not showing his hand. He was a simple man. Thats what I think makes him such an interesting figure in Portuguese History. He was the last person you would ever assume would rise to leadership. He just fell into it. He didn't want glory. He didn't want power. But when he fell into it he was afraid to lose it before Portugal was ready. The Cold War era and colonial wars really put an asterisk next to his name. But I will always appreciate the part Dr. Salazar played for humanity. He wasn't a hero. He wasn't a villain either. He was a just a man. A man who loved his people, his nation, and his God.
I thought it was about Salazar
Edit : It was
I am very interested in Forgotten Authoritarians
Salazar was totally dedicated to the Portuguese State. There was no foreign debt, a triple-A credit rating and virtually no inflation during his long rule. He tactfully held out against many of the bully threats from the US, never folding, even managing to hold onto a large gold reserve from exports to NS Germany during WW2. Portugal’s last true great leader RIP
You didn’t talk about PIDE
So in sum, if some country were to have a dictator, Salazar would be the best choice. It's rare to see a dictator who actually cared for his country and that actually did some good
Not hard Gaddafi did much more
south korea actually had an economic miracle, I'd rather live there
Salazar was never a dictator. His party was dictatorial. Salazar was a statesperson, one of the best in the world ever. He was forced to cooperate under risk of death. This is a man who lived with his mother until late in his life, he publicly admitted to eat bean soup every day a fact that funnily got proved. He was a very humble and intelligent man that sadly had no choice but to cooperate with the authoritarian party. He came on the cover of time magazine as one of the greatest statespersons ever. Not an easy feat. He alone decides the outcome of the second world war by declaring neutrality and not forcing Franco to join the axis powers. Had Portugal been in the war, Franco would have joined the axis powers early on and the story would have been much different. But he still did show support to the allied forces, as Portuguese people starved to provide grain and hemp and wood and many other resources for the allied military, mainly Britain and France.
@@user-cx9nc4pj8wThat miracle is called American capitalism. See how Americanised their society become. And they hate it.
@@Icneumone7 I'm aware of all that but Salazar was still a dictator. Being the head of a dictatorial party makes him a dictator wether he wants ot or not.
Rather warm and fuzzy assessment of a dictator.
because he was a good guy
It’s difficult to justify considering Salazar as a “good guy” given his repression of women’s rights, suppression of freedom of speech, utilization of a secret police for torture and murder of dissenters, and the exploitative and racist policies toward colonies to bolster his own regime.
I mean, Salazar was even with Franco in terms of years in rule. Like if we say that Salazar rose to power in 1932 until 1968, that would be 36 years. Meanwhile in Spain, Franco managed to win the war in the year 1939 and rule until his death at 1975, and that would also be 36 years.
Pd: if you are thinking “but Salazar’s regime still lasted before Salazar’s death at 1970”
Then we should also be able to count the years of leadership of Franco during the civil war an so would be more or less equal again.
Well, Salazar was in power before 1932. It was from 1928-1968, 40 years, and the regime lasted another 6 years.
Miguel Primo de Rivera is also really overlooked, and the historical background for his arrival to the dictatorship has more in common with Salazar and Mussolini's than Franco's in many regards.
Omg
How can you say this man was a Dictator if he wasn't. Just because his Country was doing amazing when he was in Office doesn't mean he was Evil just because no one else toke his place. The reality is people are unaware and uneducated about what is really going on.
I'm portuguese and i've heard stories of my parents growing up during salazar's regime, they remember mostly the stuff from the late 60's and early 70's when they were teens and kids the stuff salazar did to people was presecution of communists and communist sympathizers, we had a special police force similar to germany's gestapo called PIDE, this was the republican police, they'd interrogate and torture people with no sleep torture to many ppl they deemed an enemy of the state. My parents were kids and neither did their parents ever had to go through this, but older ppl they know did.
Sounds based
My great grandfather fought against Salazar's regime as a rebel. He was later imprisoned and somehow managed to get out of prison.
@@Fives-wk4dl unbased*
We need Salazar 2.0 in Portugal.Put everyone to work. Quem nao trabalha nao come.
@@JdC.S.R.S.d.E waa waa
Of all the cold war regimes in Europe I read about the Estado Novo the most. It’s the most interesting for me
Same actually. Still waiting for Green Tea with D Man to release the Colonial War videos.
maybe its because Salazar had a much higher intellectual preparation than Franco or Mussolini or Hitler...
Very interesting, similar to Franco.Nothing better if you're into spying and torture
This has some historical problems, Salazar was not as Pro-Church as you put it although generally correct (His marriage policy did work.). Manuel II was good including trying for an alliance with socialists but that went bad. The First Republic was horrible. Salazar managed to create a Civilian led government in a military dictatorship (Seriously, the military had to overthrown the government in the end.) which shows how adroit a politician he was. His Colonial policy was the issue, he did exploit the people horribly when he could have liberated them before any Wars (That is his failure.).
Honestly if Salazar had just gave independence to Guinea he would probably manage to keep the rest of the colonies all the way to the end of the cold war, Amílcar Cabral and the PAIG were extremely good at fighting, controlling most of Guinea with ease, Guinea was small and had not much value but their leaders knew how to lead and turned Guinea into a Portuguese Army Meat Grinder Spinola wrote "Portugal e o Futuro" based on his fighting in Guinea, Amílcar Cabral put the Portuguese Army to shame there.
@@jackyex True, then he was kicked out after the War and fled to Portugal. It then devolved into Civil War (After they massacred a couple African collaborators.). Very nice.
To anyone interested, look up Catholic Corporatism and “Distributism”. (Not in the Socialist way)
VIVA LA CHRISTO REI!!! 🙏🏻
Can you do a video on Franco?
I could, but as of right now I'm trying to think of a video that I could make that isn't just another biography.
@@JoshSullivanHistory Okay thanks. Peace ✌🏻
I think sadly Salazar's regime is a bad example of either. He failed to even churn out much of a theory on Corporatism.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Perhaps. I don’t know too much about Salazar’s Portugal.
@@crusader2112 It mostly favoured employers and he did not manage to break up Southern Land-Owners who helped him into power. Salazar honestly just had a hard time keeping the country together.
Pretty sure 1.4 billion people from a certain country has not forgotten him at all.
Why?
@@migueldiogo8395 because vindaloo.
@@satyakisil9711 ahhh ahahhaha
Yes in my opinion we have the best cuisine in the world, simply because we can cook everything our own way and make it good
@@satyakisil9711 Ohh I was expecting it to be bcs of resistance to give up colonies of índia but i´m glad to be bcs of that dish you guys apparently enjoy. Much love to india!
Who can' t forget out Hindustani Friends In Goa,Daman,Diu and Dadar Haveli from the former Portuguese State of Índia ?🇵🇹💔
We haven't forgot about him. What he did impacted Portugal with such strenght.
A strength that caused 5 million refugees fleeing from the colonies because he wouldn't admit independence
Great info, I did not even know this about Portugal.
It is not at all great info. This video is filled with misinformation, and, if you're really interested, I'd advise you to research yourself a bit on the topic.
@@12D_D21 Will do can you send me some links please thank you.
Actually, one simple note, in portugal, the title of "Crown Prince" is called "Infante"
Not quite. The Crown Prince was known as Príncipe da Beira, as in GB one currently has the title Prince of Wales. The legitimate offspring of the Portuguese King/Queen would all be given the title of Infante/Infanta.
Ps. Likewise, I believe Leonor of Spain, as heir presumptive, is known as Princess of Asturias, and both she and her sister are Infantas of the Spanish Royal household.
@@renatopinto3186 Exato! Acabei por confundir a informação.
The male heir to the Portuguese throne is styled as HRH The Duke of Braganza, as well as HRH The Prince Royal in a functioning monarchy, and never as Crown Prince or Infante. Infante/a is reserved for the younger royal siblings.
Funny how Salazar is now Viewed by many leaders as a source of learning, he will be recognised in history as a good dictator, but still as a dictator.
Sad to see how many Portuguese still disdain is achievements.
Did you really expect that a regime would praise the previous one?
Not saying that the dictatorship was good, but how would it make sense for the democratic government to praise a dictator?
He was gods sent angel.. fallen angel
This painted a rosy picture about the dictator and should be taken with a pinch of salt. I have discussed this with the people who lived during the time, my basic understanding is that normal people outside of the ruling class were poor and hungry. This was the experience of the masses, not the minority. Santa Comba Dao is in my locality
This is true however Portugal had always been poor, he was trying slowly, and so stably, to let it go up. The Portuguese economy was growing under him (It had an outdated railway and poor industry.), Salazar was known for frugality which is still born out. He largely was secluded after an assassination attempt but did return after meeting a lady (Nothing happened though.).
yeah lmao, not even potuguese but i can notice this vid was biased af
@@dogex2673 of course....if its no to talk shit about him its biased for sure.....lol
@@johnnotrealname8168 his rule was a disaster, his isolationist policies kept us from developing and set us back decades compared to the rest of europe. We still suffer the consequences today.
@@12_yeslol12_ His isolationist policies ended in the 1960s by which time Portugal had not taken a foreign loan for decades. It was stagnant but subsequently the economy rapidly grew with levels comparable to Asian nations. It was definitely backwards however that is not really his fault given where Portugal started under his rule.
in general portugal, as a portuguese, is very forgotten. even though i'd say we have more history than spain
Man, there are cities in Portugal full of tourists, just like Greece, do you want Portugal to be even more famous? Bullshit. You should try to make it less famous. Visit Lisbon. Immigrants and tourists everywhere, sadly.
I met a relative of Salazar, i speaked with him about how Salazar was with his close circle: Very loved especially from the youngs, and he loved nature(REALLY, he apparently loved it so much that he spend hours walking in the forest just looking at it) and yeah he was a cool guy to be around :)
Sounds delightful.wonder why half the people hated him
@@ivanbarbosa81 Communists hated him, but i won't call them people. The average men, like my father or grandfather were big supporter of him. even decades after the end of the Estado Novo.
Great video!
0:26
Germany: "Allow us to introduce ourselves..."
“Gutentag” 👋🏻
@@crusader2112
Poland: Guten tag my ass
@@Ivan19271 It’s a joke Poland, don’t worry,
@@crusader2112 Russia: How about another joke, Germany?
@@DarthFhenix55 Mein Gott. Russia no please. Nein!!!!!!
From 1950 until Salazar's death in 1970, Portugal saw its GDP per capita increase at an annual average rate of 5.7 per cent. The economic growth and levels of capital formation from 1960 to 1973 were characterized by an unparalleled robust annual growth rates of GDP (6.9 per cent), industrial production (9 per cent), private consumption (6.5 per cent) and gross fixed capital formation (7.8 per cent).[6] In 1960, at the initiation of Salazar's more outward-looking economic policy, Portugal's per capita GDP was only 38 percent of the European Community (EC-12) average; by the end of the Salazar period, in 1968, it had risen to 48 percent; and in 1973, under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano, Portugal's per capita GDP had reached 56.4 percent of the EC-12 average.[7] On a long term analysis, after a long period of economic divergence before 1914, and a period of chaos during the First Republic, the Portuguese economy recovered slightly until 1950, entering thereafter on a path of strong economic convergence with the wealthiest economies of Western Europe, until the Carnation Revolution in April 1974
A Industrialização Portuguesa de 1948, com as barragens, até á Físip em 1975.Só lá vamos com a Indústria, Agricultura,Pescas e Minas ao máximo possível Eu defendo um novo modelo industrial, para Portugal.
Salazar feared his regime would collapse if he deolonized but it ended up getting overthrown partly because of the endless resources spent stubornly holding on to the colonies.
As a Portuguese, yes its very sad we are mostly forgotten, mostly everything people know about us is CR7. But anyway its very funny hearing english people try to pronounce our names xd. Thanks for knowing we exist! :D
é isso irmão, feliz 25 de abril, fascismo nunca mais, salazar bom é salazar na cova
É verdade, isso me fez rir 🤣
He’s never been forgotten we remember him every 25th April lmao
For the worse reasons
Nowadays, Portugal is known essentially for being the country of Cristiano Ronaldo and of José Mourinho.
No
Nice job, pal!
Nah, people still remember Salazar; Europe's really forgotten dictator is Ioannis (John) Metaxas of Greece, the only fascist to side with the allies against Hitler and Mussolini. Needless to say he didn't last long.
This "forgotten dictator" was recently voted by the Portuguese as the greatest Portuguese of all time.
😂
forgotten outside of portugal he said...
Funny that they held that poll again years later and who won was Mário Soares, founder of the socialist party and the number one enemy of Mr.Salazar
what? which portuguese voted for that? our ultra right wing party? because everyone else hates him.
The Portuguese version of Éamon De Valera bar the non authoritarianism
I get that this was supposed to be a quick explanation about it but I personally find the lack of mention about how much the Portuguese people suffered under his regime is a bit insulting, I think it would've given more impact too on the fact that it was later liberated by the people to end the Tyrany. It was quite recent considering my grandma lived through it and my mother was already around to experience the end of it so I think it deserves mention.
But other than that great video! best wishes from Portugal :D
There was no "Liberation by the people". The Carnation Revolution was made by the army. It was organized by the army (Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and a few more) and executed by the army (the name Salgueiro Maia should be familiar to you). Besides, most of the people in the major cities and in Alentejo were happy with the revolution the army made, yes, but not everybody felt that way. In 1975 the country was at the brink of a civil war. COPCON used PIDE-like repression and people in places like Rio Maior and throughout Northern Portugal began to attack the left-wing parties' headquarters. Also, Portuguese people from Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Mozambique were not happy with the revolution. Those who could run away from independence came to mainland Portugal or went to South Africa. Those who couldn't were either killed or had to join the non-Communist guerrillas (FNLA, RENAMO). The ones who came to mainland Portugal were labelled as "Fascists" for many years precisely because they were against the Carnation Revolution - and they too were part of "the people". Both white and black. Black, yes. This may surprise you, but the number of black Portuguese who fought in the ranks of the Portuguese army against the "Liberation" movements was very large and there were units composed exclusively of these people (African Commandos - mainly in Guinea -, Flechas - mainly in Angola -, GEP - mainly in Mozambique). And don't forget to add entire ethnical groups to the tally, such as the Bushmen (the original population of Angola) and the Bailundos. Another fact that should be food for thought: in 1973, in Mozambique, the number of Mozambique-born recruits was higher than the number of Mainland Portugal-born recruits. But there was censorship and the PIDE, yes. Portugal was not a Western-type democracy, no. But it was still less brutal towards the opposition than the Communist countries and, at a certain point, at the same level as the USA (see McCarthyism, or WW2 when Americans of Japanese descent were interned in concentration camps). But you wouldn't have problems with PIDE if you were against the Government UNLESS they suspected you were a Communist - that was the context of the Cold War. The approximate number of PIDE agents and informers is a mere 3,400. Some people say 20,000 but the only written list that was ever found shows about 3,400 names. And the combined population of Mainland Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau was about 25,000,000 people. Therefore, it's ridiculous to say that Portugal was a police state and that there was a PIDE member or informer in every corner. We're talking about 1 agent or informer per more than 7,000 people!!!!
@@PauloTheWinger11 A questão não era apenas "POLÍTICA." Foi social e cultural. O regime Salazarista, que durou meio século, tornou os Portugueses incrivelmente tacanhos, fracos, medrosos, ignorantes e incultos. Submissos à igreja Católica e agarrados às saias das mãezinhas. Infantis, malucos por futebol. Ainda hoje se nota isso. Qualquer dorzinha de nada, vão logo correr para as urgências dos hospitais, sempre metidos nos médicos. É uma coisa absolutamente deprimente. Vivi na Suécia e na Alemanha, e percebi que, em geral, os cidadãos Nórdicos de 20 e poucos anos são MUITO MAIS À FRENTE que Portugueses com idade para terem juízo. Eu tenho amigos com 40 anos e até mais a viverem em casa da mãezinha, e acham perfeitamente normal. Por certo que o Estado Novo é muito culpado de tudo isso e muito mais. Em 1974, literalmente, metade dos Portugueses eram analfabetos. Em plena Europa Ocidental, 30 anos depois do fim da II Guerra Mundial. Que mais há a dizer? As pessoas focam-se quase sempre, apenas, na história política ou até económica, e esquecem-se de avaliar as consequências, repito, CULTURAIS e SOCIAIS dos regimes. E em termos económicos, o Salazarismo era outro desastre. Pobreza por todo o lado, enfim.
@@HeathenDance a História de Portugal não começou com Salazar. Antes dele, após a miséria que foram os séculos XVIII (um terramoto que literalmente arrasou o país, tendo sido sentido até na Irlanda) o séc. XIX (perda do Brasil, invasões, massacres, terra queimada, seguidos de uma guerra civil e várias revoltas populares esmagadas com sangue), veio então a 1ª República, durante a qual houve muita fome e uma crise económica pior. Isto (a miséria e a violência sofridas) tornou o nosso povo fraco e submisso, não o Estado Novo. O nosso povo já era descrito como sendo assim por escritores como Pascoaes, muito antes de Salazar. Malucos por futebol é agora. Por exemplo, no tempo de Salazar, o hóquei em patins era tão popular quanto o futebol, o ciclismo dava cartas (as populações paravam para ver passar a Volta a Portugal) e os deportos tradicionais (chinquilho, por exemplo) estavam por toda a parte. Não me venha também com a Fátima e com o Fado, (três F), pois isso também são mitos: para além do fado havia o folclore (altamente promovido) e surgiram as primeiras bandas pop e rock na década de 60, caso dos Sheiks, entre outros (onde, já agora, as mulheres começaram a andar de mini-saia e biquini, havendo fotos que o demonstram). Fátima e a religião podem ser considerados alienantes, mas hoje ao domingo também vai tudo para o shopping alienado prestar culto ao Deus-consumo (prefiro o Deus de Fátima, que ao menos ensina valores espirituais). Analfabetismo? Os dados relativos a 1970 (Pordata, etc.) indicam analfabetismo MUITO INFERIOR a metade da população (24%, sobretudo idosos) e muito inferior ao período pré-Salazar.. Em termos económicos, não foi desastre nenhum: salvou Portugal da bancarrota, e todos os dados indicam crescimento ano após ano. Pobreza havia (as pessoas do campo tinham 6 e 7 filhos, se fosse hoje e tivessem o mesmo número de filhos também seriam pobres). Mas também foi com Salazar e as milhares de escolas que ele construiu que foram lançadas as bases para uma classe média forte, que tivemos durante as décadas de 70, 80 e 90. Há que ter em mente que Salazar apanhou um país SÉCULOS atrasado em relação à generalidade da Europa Ocidental. Se em 1970 o país estava 20 anos atrasado em relação a esses países.... pois, Roma e Pavia não se fizeram num dia. De referir contudo, que países como Malta e a Irlanda não eram mais avançados do que nós, e não tiveram lá Salazar nenhum. É sempre complicado um país periférico evoluir tão rapidamente quanto os outros. Em suma, estude mais um bocadinho e não vá atrás de tudo aquilo que ouve.
Ah, e na questão do isolacionismo, isso também é falso. Fomos membros-fundadores da NATO e da EFTA, ou não fomos? A expressão "Orgulhosamente sós" aplicou-se num contexto específico, quando os nossos "aliados"norte-americanos votaram contra nós na ONU e o Reino Unido e a França se abstiveram.
One thing it was not just war in Angola but yes in every colony we had beung Mozambique Cape Verde St. Tomé and Princr, Guine and others, it was a long decade of war that lead the exausthion to extreme
not really, there was no war in Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor, Macau or portuguese India. We just gave the first three cause some dumb people wanted to.
Fun fact: Salazar's original home in Santa Comba Dão is still there, with just a few renovacions. Also, his death might be related to a certain chair
Electric chair? Never heard any insinuation before that he was secretly executed.
He had fall from a chair in 1968 and provoque his internation in Hospital and the State bought a machine to keep Him Alive until July 1970.
A dictator that at the time of his death had one old car and a family house. Didn´t still a dime from Portugal, left a debt free country even after so many independence wars. And left more than 500 hundred tons of gold in the national bank. Then the socialites came to power and after only 50 years, we owe more than 150% PIB and our economy is on of the poorest in EU. And the gold reserves dropped more than 50%.
Most people didn´t have any problem with the "dictatorship", only the communist reactionaries.
Still Portugal was poor, he should've used that gold don't u think?
The finest governance was that of the Estado Novo of Dr. Oliveira Salazar, as I had witnessed in Goa. Bribery and corruption were unheard of. Today Goa, once Rome of the East, is a political, moral, and financial wreck.
I loved the touch of the "A Portuguesa" near the end! It is an epic ensamble and the proud instrumental of our national anthem!
Como português, adoro que utilisaste musica nacional mas não da guerra do ultramar.
As a portuguese, I love how you've used national music but not of the war
You forgot to mention the political priosioners, the famine that ravage the poorer regions of portugal (like alentejo), the thousands that were drafted and sent to die in the colonies, the political police which killed and tortured anyone who opposed the regime, the censorship installed in Portugal during that time. The revolution in 1974 was supported by the people and the military in such a way that only 1 dead was reported during the whole day of revolution (25 of april 1974).
Give us a video on Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi or maybe Eugene Talmadge pls
Good explanation. Nice to see a foreigner taking interest in Portuguese history.
This documentary is actually pretty accurate 👍
A good man who died poor, unlike the vast majority of politicians
Love the recognition of Herr Dollfuß🇦🇹✝️
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I, in primary school, actually studied in the same school Salazar completed primary education.
Unusually for a dictator and indeed for most other European Political leaders, Salazar was an honest man and drew very little in salary, The average Spartan would have turned his nose up as his accommodation..
He did many good things, he fixed the economy and kept us neutral in ww2 but even with all the money the state had he didn't give free healthcare or even tried to improve it, a good chunk of the population was illiterate and dragged Portugal into the colonial war that saw thousands of dead people and the economy ruined.
and many of those resources were used to keep the country quiet and whoever challenged the state was taken prisioner and tortured.
False claims. The generations born after he took power quickly achieved literacy. He made far more progress in literacy than did the Republican government before him
Also the economy was growing more than 4% YoY during his regime. It was never “ruined”
Fun fact: Time magazine issued a number calling salazar "the dean of dictators" due to his habilities. In a unrelated note, salazar used his wits to supply tungsten to both Great Britain and Nazi Germany. So much so, the debt of the british couldnt be repayed in money, causing them to have to deliver all the gold in their vaults as payment. And despite the awful leaders we've had for the past 49 years, many of which have spent a lot of the gold on bland expenses "for the development of the land" some of it still remains. And as a leader, he gave all he earned to the government he served, having no family, no love life, and dying a poor man, with all of its earnings to be given back to the state
Now, as a portuguese myself, i must admit. If i had to choose between big baby costa, Ventura the shitbag and salazar, the 3rd option would be the clear one. Our current leader has been continuing the stupidity of stalling the construction for the montijo airport, although the beja airport is a great reposition, making it possible to substitute the current faro and lisbon airports as excecutive airports, constructing a new, spacious and modern deck while building railroads to connect said airport with the cities. The only reason big baby Costa is still on leadership, is that:
1- He always makes bland promisses when his period is about to end, trying to capture the love of people by giving out small gifts
2- He is the representant of the biggest party in the country
3- The other choices are even worse, or sadly, irrelevant, due to the high focus on PS(Socialist party, Current leader), PSD(Social-Democratic Party, 2nd place(used to be until new polls came out)), and, sadly, CHEGA(Full on right wing, controlled by the biggest asswipe to roam this land, basically a donald trump but worse as he has been really racist towards several races in public)
So, in conclusion, please kill me, i was born in the wrong country
What a beautiful comment. The last part about "kill me, i was born in the wrong country" really hit me hard. Portugal has so much potential, but it's wasted in such a criminal way that i'd rather have been born somewhere else.
@@Chaika1974 True, yes. Sadly, the country goes from bad to worse. After this comment was made, it became public knowledge that out finance minister has denominated his wife as a very important minister(forgot which), and did not told the public because "It wasnt necessary"
While this is happening, big baby costa is enjoying a nice vacation/diplomatic trip to south korea
@@Chaika1974 Fds acabei de me aperceber que tu também és PT. Meu mal
As someone who will be moving to Portugal, the main thing that saddens me is that people even agree with CHEGA. Even Salazar, a dictator, didn’t say the outright racist, and dangerous stuff that the CHEGA leader has said. His supporters are proud of Ventura’s Nazi salutes in public and false narratives backed by misinterpreted statistics.
@fatkrab7556 criticize chega for having or not having sound economy? No, it's cause they're mean to Africans !! 🤡🤡
A correction Dr Salazar did not come to Coimbra to study finance but to study law
@count kalergi a cadeira de Finanças Públicas , em Coimbra é leccionada desde um ponto de vista jurídico , dando bastante ênfase , ao que hoje em dia chamamos lei de enquadramento orçamental ( Leo ) . Durante o Estado Novo o método/doutrina de equilíbrio orçamental vigente diferia bastante ao que a Leo atual prevê .
The painting shown throughout this video is of D.Luis and not D.Carlos...
Altho he did a lot of great stuff for Portugal's economy both my granparents and my parents generation keep a heavy trauma of what they went through during the regime. The censorship, the governamental police that we called PIDE , the war in africa, my grandpa had to cut is pinky so he didnt go to war because he like a lot of people didnt actually care if mozambique or angola were independent or not he just wanted to be with his family and marry my grandma.
There was a lot of sadness and fear during his regime, people were very careful with the ideas they would say in fear that someone might denounce them to PIDE of conspiracy against the government , and anyone was fair game , u could even denounce someone of conspiracy even when it wasnt true just because u didnt like them.
My mom says that she and her siblings had to share one sardine because there wasnt much food and she started helping my grandma when she was 12 yo and this reality was very common back in the day since my friends's parents all have similar a story.
My grandma says when the revolution took place she never felt so much disapointment at her own country and the world she grew up in just didnt exist and was a bunch of lies they indoctrinate them but at least she felt truly free.
Ya, mas a cena da economia ser boa é também exagerada, pois embora tenha "crescido" foi de uma forma muito desigual, e o crescimento podia ter sido muito maior se ele abandonasse o corporativismo e abrisse a economia.
Os meus avós paternos fugiriam a pé para França, os meus maternos não sei muito, mas o meu avô participou no 25 de abril
Salazar was a very controversial and polarizing figure, people either hated or loved him and he admired Adolf Hitler to the point where he punished one of his ministers who assisted in helping Jews escape the Nazis. Most of my relatives spoke frequently of the crushing poverty and the secret police, even in the churches. Salazar was a Fascist Dictator, not someone to admire.
O Marcello Caetano abriu a economia, acabou com a pide, deu reformas aos idosos e abriu as fronteiras. O país cresceu super rápido no mandato. A paga que o povo lhe deu foi um golpe de estado e o exílio.
Cuidado com a cadeira Salazar...
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Ok, but you didn’t even tell the bad things he did
Interesting, didn't know Portugal was a dictatorship during this time. Or the anti-Catholicism at the beginning of the 20th century, which seems wild considering how Catholic the country is.
Given that he was a dictator and that he seemed to have done some good for yhe country, and seemed to place the country above himself, he almost seems like a Doctor Doom kind of guy.
The nicest totalitarian I've ever heard about.
tf? portugal isn't catholic
@@yvonetubla7682 From the Cultural Atlas website:
"Today, the vast majority of Portuguese identify as Roman Catholic (81%).1 However, most consider themselves as non-practising. For many, national and cultural identity is often linked to Catholicism, rather than purely a religious affiliation. Of the remaining population, 3.3% identify with some other denomination of Christianity, 0.6% identify with some other religion (including those who identify as Jewish or Muslim), 6.8% identify with no religion, and 8.3% did not specify a religious affiliation.2 ...
...However, apart from major celebrations, church attendance is quite low. Generally, people who reside in cities and larger towns (particularly in Lisbon and the south) are less involved in the daily practice of Catholicism. On the other hand, those residing in central and northern Portugal tend to show their religiosity more. For example, attendance of Mass, honouring saints, processions and celebrating religious holidays are participated in more devoutly.
‘Romarias’ (pilgrimages) to regional shrines are also a core religious practice, especially in northern Portugal ..."
1 Central Intelligence Agency, 2020
2 Central Intelligence Agency, 2020
Okay, it's culturally Catholic. Only 6.8% of people call themselves atheist or agnostic. I, and most people, would call that Catholic. What's your criteria? 70% attendance at daily mass? A majority of schools and businesses starting the day with a rosary and saying the Angelus in the afternoon? Tax breaks for families who have members take Holy Orders?
In Portugal we don't remember Salazar in a very good light, sure he did bring some stability from the first republics.
But his secret police, PIDE ("Polícia Internacional de Defesa do Estado"; aka "International State Defense Police") persecuted, tortured and killed our people if we even dared to criticize the government, free speech was pratically non-existent during the Estado Novo decades. We have to thank people like José Mário Branco, Zéca Afonso, Mário Soares, and others for giving us hope during those dark times.
Sounds like a eulogy to Salazar. Actually, Portugal was known under his regime for being poor and illiterate, contrary to the video claim (check the figures, please!!). Another mistake: though the collapse of the Brazilian monarchy contributed to the end of the Portuguese kingdom, the Empire of Brazil fell down in 1889, but the emperor would die in exile only two years later.
Exceptional video. Portugal was offered the Marshall plan though it was not accepted nor needed
what is your discords servers name? please i want to join
I used to say “Portugal is forgotten 9 months of the year” but now you can’t talk portuguese in the middle of Lisboa, too many tourists, personally i love the spanish and the italian and i like the british in Algarve because the pay tequila shots to everyone
Salazar is not , at all, forgotten
In Portugal, the mass media still blames him for everything. If it rains or it doesn't, it's always Salazar's fault
For me, Salazar is greatest Portuguese of all time . God rest his soul
for me too dude for me too sure he did good things and bad things but we gave us stability when we need it most
@@medicbn9443 Alongside sending a generation to the meatgrinder and creating a Portugal split in two worlds
The "mass media blames even rain on Salazar" is a massive victimization here, never have I ever this lol, at most we still glorify his image as the calm mediator and guardian of Portugal. He sure kept his enemies very safe as their guardian in Tarrafal
nao valeu a pena. pq impedir a liberdade de expressao? algo inutil que ele fez. para mim ele é mais um escumalha autoritario. ele so gastou o dinheiro em infra-estrutura e a população continuou pobre. nada melhorou
The mass media are the mess media.
@@miguelpadeiro762 Considering what happened to Portugal's former colonies, I can understand why he fought. India is now a pagan hellhole with Modi persecuting Muslims and Christians. African nations right now are unstable as all hell.
It was a time when dictators believed they had to be real mean and those who were anti-dictatorship were by and large under the influence of communism and maoism.
Both were bizarre.
Hey I love that video you made talk portugal history ❤🇵🇹 and June 10 is day of portugal
Portugal is the greatest small country in the world...😎😎😎😎👍👍✌✌❤❤
Thanks ❤
Vejo muitos a falar mal dele, mas em 2007 foi considerado o melhor português de todos os tempos... Na verdade em mais de 100 anos de república, não tivemos outro melhor... Agora temos políticos que em vez de ter média de 20 a economia e finanças e irem para cargos político por mérito, tiram a licenciatura ao fim de semana e ocupam cargos políticos por convite de amizade... Não sei se choro ou se rio, mas tudo isto é triste tudo isto é fado 😂 desculpem não ter escrito em inglês beacause o que é nacional é bom 😂
Obrigado! Love new "old history"!
Dude, D.Pedro II ruled an independent brazil
Well done!
Wealthy and stable nation, literacy ... under Salazar??? You are absolutely MAD.
Nah. He is right. All of those are facts. The problem is that for them to be true, one has to have a very narrow and detailed context to analyse them.
If one compare those numbers and realities to other "more known" countries, then those "facts" look more and more like caricatures.
In the end, It is always about context.
@@estranhokonsta He is not. Anyway... The most relevant being that repression and violence against those who stood against the authoritarian regime, and awkwardness of a regime of casts, with no connection with reality and lacking integration in the world. A brutal colonial war that swept half of the country's budget at its peak missing so much for the population...
Get that republican propaganda out of your head. Salazar was actually good for Portugal. Ever since he left, Portugal has gotten poorer and poorer, and no leftist can ever fix it.
In Portugal many call him, the Saint Dictactor. He did so much for Portugal!!
yeah so much inequality and fascism
@@eusoueu5504 Just pay attention to the words! As you know, Doctor Salazar was not a fascist; he never wore the armband, nor the boots, nor the costumes; he did not persecute the Jews, he did not persecute the judges, he even invited people who thought completely differently to his government several times. He had his way of governing, but to call him a fascist is to ignore the value of words. Incidentally, the proof is that when there was a fascist movement in Portugal, Doctor Salazar immediately ordered its dissolution and had Rolão Preto arrested. I repeat: This is being ANTI-fascist."
@@pedrocsantos8 nope, he would be a clero-fascist, fascism is an ideology that is flexible to each use, no two fascist regimes are the same, and you don't need to be anti semite to be fascist
Rolão preto was a national-syndicalist, he arrested him as they were not exactly the most loyal
@@eusoueu5504 O estado novo não era um regime fascista, isso está mais que estudado, basta ver que Portugal entrou na OCDE, EFTA, Nato, durante esse regime. Ora se fosse um regime fascista como algumas pessoas pouco informadas o querem fazer querer isso seria impossível.
@@pedrocsantos8 LMAOOOOO ele juntou se a NATO porque era anti comunista, e Os EUA, apoiavam regimes de estrema direita, desde que fossem anti comunistas
The problem plagging the first republic wasnt the anti-religion movement, it was more the shear instability. Portugal had 45 governments in 16 years, meaning that the average government lasted 4 months.
anti religion contributed
" We do not discuss God and his Santity,we do not discuss the Fatherland and his History and do not discuss the Autority and his prestige." Salazar,1936 in Braga Rally
Most like Europe's forgotten caring saint is more like. I never knew Portugal had a dictator before, only a republic with an unstable government that weakened the economy. I'm glad you visited Spain and Portugal because Salazar deserves to be praised for caring more about his country and people, unlike Hilter, Mussolini, and Stalin, who only managed about power, for I don't know much of European history. Still, I did know because of this video. This is a fantastic video, Josh; your research and effort into it made it worth watching and educational at the same time.
Could you please make a future alternate history on what if the Brazillian monarchy had been restored? I would like to see a future video on that topic; and Brazil is a constitutional monarchy with Manuel II becoming Manuel I of Brazil. Anyway, this is a great video, Josh, so please keep up with the fantastic work, and I hope you get more likes and recognition you deserve!!
Great idea
@@adrianabernalcorrea5715 You mean the Brazilian monarchy being restored with Manuel II becoming Manuel I of Brazil?
Mussolini and h*tler did care for their nations its just that they wanted to make them great in a bad way.
@@Silver_Prussian Oh, I didn't know that, but they are doing it wrong by not listening to their advisors and acting on impulses and desire to achieve victory.
Portuguese here. Salazar doesnt deserve praise and he didnt care about his people.
The day the estado novo ended is a national holyday. 25 of April.
My grandma worked as a maid for Salazar and apparently he was very touchy and flirty and quite a weirdo
Sure buddy… 😂😂😂
Finnaly someone remembers that Salazar existed
You got D. Pedro Ii " story wrong!
He was removed from power. He passed away long after that.
Salazar had a picture of Benito Mossulini in his desk
If you understand portuguese see the podcast "E O RESTO É HISTÓRIA" - episode " A foto mistériosa da secretária de Salazar "
There the historian Rui Ramos explains why that does not mean that Salazar was a fascis.
He also tells very detailed the history of the country in 1932-39
And one of Hitler by his bed side
This is a really good video. It deserves to have +100.000 views at least
I liked your video! I'd just like to add that before the revolution the portuguese economy was actually stagnant since most of the money was waste on the colonial war. After the revolution the portuguese economy actually grew by 125% of its PIB.
Yeah, at the beggining the economy stabilized and grew but then a few years before the revolution the portuguese economy was in bad shape...
He was quite modest for a dictator
You might have added that Salazar was always personally frugal and never enriched himself whilst in power. He lived modestly and died poor. He was never corrupted by power. Many remember him fondly as a good well-intentioned man but others will point to the notorious secret police PIDE which brutally enforced the authoritarian rule. Unlike all other European dictators, he was not a military man and had no military background. He was an economist. He will always be remembered for keeping Portugal (and Spain) out of WW2 and the statue of Christ that looks over Lisbon was erected to celebrate this fact. I hope that his record will one day be re-examined favourably by future generations.
Poor Salazar :'( Mate, please educate yourself. Entre nós, tugas, vai pro caralho. Lê, informa-te, pensa..por ti. Pensa...
So he was a Spartan Catholic dictator. Cute.
@@HolyknightVader999 yeah, there's Buda and then Salazar
ok pls donr forget the fact that his secret police arrested and tortured all hwo where suspected also the colonial war was the bigguest mistake in his career the coup was made because the people didnt want to go to war it was draining us economically and socialy those where the main reasons why his regime went out also alot of censorship altough i agree he was much better than other dictators he was still a dictator
You learn something new everyday 😊
this is all wrong this video is horrible
The Marshall Plan was a loan scheme to buy influence. The borrowers were not expected to pay the loans. It paid for less than 5% of Europe's reconstruction. Portugal borrowed less than seventy million dollars under the Marshall Plan. It paid the short term loan on time. Portugal had immense natural resources in Angola. It had immense gold reserves. It was neither a poor, nor a small, country. Its working class and lower middle class were chronically poor. These classes were chronically poor everywhere. At this time, during the years between the wars and in the 1950s and most of the 1960s, the American South had families living in one-room cabins that earned a meagre subsistence as sharecroppers. Portugal's solid bourgeoisie, the professional classes, was on par with that of Switzerland. Its large fortunes were among the world's largest. Portugal's economy was essentially colonial. It was resource driven. Nowadays, Portugal is a cheap Club Med infested with foreigners. The Portuguese emigrate to Switzerland in droves. Ironically, the Lusitanians hailed originally from the territory that is now Switzerland.
im portuguese... i agree 100% with your comment