>>511065697

Salazar was among the greatest.
But he also failed a lot: He failed in preserving our Empire in the end - he never realised the true magnitude of the commie/liberal power in the 1960s.

Portugal failed to "jump up" which was their goal, to keep the empire for self sufficient and then mannage to become rich "in a jump", this never happened.
We was (rightfully) suspicious of economic development but we wasted lots of men, as in lives, and economic resources to built up the fucking colonies.

There were poor Portuguese in the colonies but the average - AVERAGE - colonist in Angola or Mozambique lived lives that only out upper middle class in Portugal could aspire too.

This led most Portuguese in the colonies to dislike Portugal in a way, they were sort of ungrateful and saw Portugal as a sort of failed state that parasitised the colonies because the whites down there knew they could be much richer with white independences that would in turn degenerate in majority black democracies.

It was called "the building of new Brazils".
Un fucking ironically.