Reposted by João Moreira da Silva
Portugal's Army in 1974, enacted a coup d'ètat which destroyed the Oliveira-Salazar & Caetano Dictatorship, and brought Democracy & elections back to Portugal!
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Ending Fascism, Dreaming Socialism: The Portuguese Revolution
João Moreira da Silva @moreiradasilvaj Fifty years ago, the future was now in Portugal. Crowds stormed the streets of Lisbon to follow the fall of a fascist dictatorship at the hands of insurgent m…