• FantasmaNaCasca@slrpnk.net
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    “And now the state is this.”

    "It was at dawn of Abril 25 of 1974, during the parade of Practical Cavalry School, in Santarém, that Salgueiro Maia uttered the famous speech:

    ‘Gentlemen, as everyone knows, there are various modalities of State.
    The socialist States,
    the capitalist States,
    and the state we came to.
    Well, in this solemn night, we will end the state we came to!
    So, whoever wants to come with me, we go to Lisbon and we will end this.
    Whoever is voluntary, go out, form up.
    Whoever doesn’t want to go out, stay here.’

    Every 240 of those man that eard this words, spoken so firmly, so characteristic of Salgueiro Maia, formed up immediately in front of him.

    Next they went to Lisbon and marched on the dictatorship."

    And with more and more military/citizens joining in through the day, they ended a 41 year old dictatorship that kept Portugal in poverty and ignorence.
    The only good things about Antonio Salazar (Slytherin…yeah Rowling used his last name as the first name of the wizard) was (mostly) keeping Portugal out of the wars (mostly) and dying.