Thousands of people in Portugal are marking the fiftieth anniversary of the country’s Carnation Revolution – a military coup that put an end to Europe’s longest dictatorship and to 13 years of colonial wars in Africa. The 1974 revolt, which was led by a group of idealist left-leaning young military captains, quickly turned into a popular uprising as the troops were joined by jubilant crowds. It was nicknamed the Carnation Revolution after the flowers that protesters placed in the soldiers’ guns and tanks, in a rare example of a military coup being staged to install democracy. Yves Léonard, a professor and researcher at Paris’s Sciences Po University, is the author of numerous books on Portugal’s modern history. He spoke to us in Perspective.
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The poverty and dictatorship in Portugal caused millions to emigrate and so therefore the loss of many luso generations forever lost to the regeneration of a nation rising from the ashes. I count myself and my descendants in that group.
Remember the 5 dead of the revolution 🇵🇹 🤝 🇫🇷
Thanks to Salazor, Portugal was no part of the World War.
That's the way to do with flowers 🎉