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25 de Abril de 1974🇵🇹
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Freedom Day is celebrated in Portugal on 25 April. The date celebrates the uprising of the Portuguese military, who on 25 April 1974 carried out a military coup d'état with the aim of ending the dictatorship imposed by Salazar, which lasted 48 years. https://t.co/agv7PBWdxX
Happy Freedom day!
On 25th April 1974 a revolution took place in Portugal to depose a dictatorship that was going for 41 years. A revolution without a war or people killed. To simbolize it a clove was placed on the guns of the military that did it
25 de Abril Sempre! https://t.co/69f2nbuqsh
The Carnation Revolution was a military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the authoritarian regime on 25 April 1974 producing fundamental changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies. It resulted in the transition to democracy. 1/ https://t.co/ecT7ELX3Ut
Happy Freedom Day/25th of April of ‘22, this year specially marked by the fact that the years in democracy in Portugal finally surpassed the ones under ditactorship. Fascism never again. 🇵🇹 https://t.co/VPQB5Fv3lR
interrupting the regular (homosexual) programming to remind everyone today portugal celebrates the carnation revolution and all the pictures from that day are amazing https://t.co/P3MvHKF0V8
+ Today is April 25, Freedom Day in Portugal.
+ It celebrates the 1974 Revolution that ended the dictatorship and started a democracy. Known as the Carnation Revolution, this was a virtually bloodless, leftist, military-led coup.
+ Wishing you a lovely day! #25deAbril https://t.co/jmmHShzI1o
#OtD 25 Apr 1974 Portugal's fascist dictatorship was overthrown by military coup. Workers then took over factories and farms in ‘the Carnation revolution' as people adorned troops with carnations. Learn more in our podcast episodes 41-42: https://t.co/oPyf6rlyzr https://t.co/hzNs4im21x
— Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) April 25, 2022
Portugal Freedom Day History
Freedom Day in Portugal commemorates the 1974 Carnation Revolution that officially ended almost five decades of dictatorship in Portugal, the longest dictatorship in Europe.
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