Part Two: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

Behind the Bastards

Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray!

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Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo

Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times

Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 – Portugal Resident

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html

50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night

Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME

Portugal’s secret police – Portugal Resident

The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS

Portugal’s Dictatorship: Salazar’s Estado Novo - Portugal.com

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum

friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa

Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism · Global Voices

118979704.pdf

Portugal, declassified – POLITICO

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

SalazarandBritish.pdf

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Françafrique: A brief history of a scandalous word                     

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

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Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray!

Sources:
Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo

Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times

Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 – Portugal Resident

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html

50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night

Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME

Portugal’s secret police – Portugal Resident

The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS

Portugal’s Dictatorship: Salazar’s Estado Novo - Portugal.com

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum

friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa

Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism · Global Voices

118979704.pdf

Portugal, declassified – POLITICO

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

SalazarandBritish.pdf

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Françafrique: A brief history of a scandalous word                     

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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