Inside Portugal's Carnation Revolution 1974: From Dictatorship to Freedom in a Day

Описание: Imagine tanks rolling through city streets, but stopping politely at red lights. Picture soldiers with flowers sticking out of their rifle barrels instead of bullets. Sounds impossible? It actually happened.
April 25, 1974: In just 24 hours, Portugal's 48-year-long brutal dictatorship crumbled - and the revolutionaries didn't fire a single shot. This wasn't just any revolution. This was the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, and we're bringing you the REAL story through the voices of those who made it happen and experienced it firsthand:
🌹Captain Vasco Lourenço - The military mastermind who coordinated the entire operation from exile in the Azores
🌹Irene Pimentel - The 23-year-old historian putting up anti-war posters on Lisbon streets the very night it all began
🌹Inácio Ludgero - The photographer who didn't go home for a week, capturing the historic moments as they unfolded
🌹Colonel João Andrade da Silva - The young officer who witnessed the crucial standoff that could have turned a peaceful revolution into massacre

SCRIPT: Laura Iglesias San Martín & Jaime González Arguedas
EDITING: Mariano Ramírez Gisbert
SUPERVISING EDITOR: Ricarda Otte
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Cristina Cubas Blasco & Melanie von Marschalck

0:00 Intro
5:22 AN EMPIRE WITHOUT GLORY... AND WITHOUT MONEY
21:25 THE PLAN
35:50 THE SHADOWS
43:52 THE REVOLUTION THAT SUCCEEDED


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