I read that during the Estado Novo it was even forbidden to have meetings on the street of 3 people! Just imagine. Salazar, an economist (!) crippled the economy by keeping the population uneducated and rural. According to Portuguese friends the modernization and giant step forward began on entering the E. U. and receiving massive infrastructure subsidies. The Portuguese are rightly proud to celebrate o dia da liberdade.
Carnations weren’t a sign of peace on that day. Women were in downtown selling flowers and they were starting giving the soldiers for free. As a joke, and because they hadn’t any other place to put the carnations they put the flowers on the pipes of the guns. It only became a symbol later
Fantastic post! I always enjoy learning about our new home and, as usual, you present things in a way that makes them accessible.
An interesting fact I recently learned: during the dictatorship, a license was required to own a lighter.
It seems like such a non-issue, but really struck me as a symbol of the degree to which even minor freedoms were controlled.
Happy to have found you .
Inspiring me to dig much more deeply about the country I’m moving to .
The additional comments here are helpful too
I read that during the Estado Novo it was even forbidden to have meetings on the street of 3 people! Just imagine. Salazar, an economist (!) crippled the economy by keeping the population uneducated and rural. According to Portuguese friends the modernization and giant step forward began on entering the E. U. and receiving massive infrastructure subsidies. The Portuguese are rightly proud to celebrate o dia da liberdade.
4 people died on that day shot by the PIDE
Carnations weren’t a sign of peace on that day. Women were in downtown selling flowers and they were starting giving the soldiers for free. As a joke, and because they hadn’t any other place to put the carnations they put the flowers on the pipes of the guns. It only became a symbol later
It wasn’t a dictatorship in the early 1900. It was a monarchy. It became a republic in 1910 and a military dictatorship in 1926