>In July 1940, Life magazine called Salazar "a benevolent ruler", described him as "by far the world's best dictator, he [Salazar] is also the greatest Portuguese since Prince Henry the Navigator", and added that "the dictator has built the nation". Life declared that "most of what is good in modern Portugal can be credited to Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (...) The dictator is everything that most Portuguese are not – calm, silent, ascetic, Puritanical, a glutton for work, cool to women. He found a country in chaos and poverty. He has balanced the budget, built roads and schools, torn down slums, cut the death rate and enormously raised Portuguese self-esteem."[10][a]
>Salazar was elected the "Greatest Portuguese Ever" with 41 per cent of votes on the show Os Grandes Portugueses ("The Greatest Portuguese") from the RTP1 channel.[136][137]
>Historian Neill Lochery claims Salazar was one of the most gifted men of his generation and hugely dedicated to his job and country.[126] According to American scholar J. Wiarda, despite certain problems and continued poverty in many sectors, the consensus among historians and economists is that Salazar in the 1930s brought remarkable improvements in the economic sphere, public works, social services and governmental honesty, efficiency and stability.[127][128]
How did he manage to do Fascism so well? While other similar dictators are despised and smeared, Salazar is respected and admired even to this day.
>What was different about him? He was able to keep Portugal out of conflict
Jayden Rivera
>How did he manage to do Fascism so well?
It wasn't fascism, it was simply an authoritarian dictatorship with a little corporatism thrown in.
Asher Clark
He didn't. Portugal is the country where Fascist autarky policies lasted the longest (until the 1970s) and the poorest and less developed Western European country.
Portugal is poorer than the Czech Republic, roughly on par with Poland, and it hasn't even reached full literacy.
Some statesman.
Jaxon Bailey
>He found a country in chaos and poverty. He has balanced the budget, built roads and schools, torn down slums, cut the death rate and enormously raised Portuguese self-esteem."[10][a]
Joseph Lewis
>>Salazar was elected the "Greatest Portuguese Ever" with 41 per cent of votes on the show Os Grandes Portugueses ("The Greatest Portuguese") from the RTP1 channel.[136][137]
Hunter Harris
>According to American scholar J. Wiarda, despite certain problems and continued poverty in many sectors, the consensus among historians and economists is that Salazar in the 1930s brought remarkable improvements in the economic sphere, public works, social services and governmental honesty, efficiency and stability.[127][128]
Aiden Sanchez
Portugal managed to fight and essentially win every colonial war on its own, at a high cost in lives and money to be sure, but in the aftermath of victory there surely would have been a great benefit to economic strength coming from stability and peace.
And then the leftist coup happened and the economy took a huge downturn and never really recovered. They also gave up their entire empire which tens of thousands died to maintain.
I hate communists and fellow travelers so fucking much.
Nathaniel Williams
>In mainland Portugal, the growth rate of the economy during the war years ranged from 6%-11%, and in post war years 2-3%.[102] This is substantially higher than the vast majority of other European nations. Other indicators like GDP as percentage of Western Europe would indicate that Portugal was rapidly catching up to its European neighbors. In 1960, at the initiation of Salazar's more outward-looking economic policy influenced by a new generation of technocrats, Portugal's per capita GDP was only 38 percent of the EC-12 average; by the end of the Salazar period, in 1968, it had risen to 48 percent.[103]
>In 1973, on the eve of the revolution, Portugal's per capita GDP had reached 56.4 percent of the EC-12 average. In 1975, the year of maximum revolutionary turmoil, Portugal's per capita GDP declined to 52.3 percent of the EC-12 average.
>fighting a brutal war to maintain your empire, the longest lived in human history >economy still growing by a ridiculous rate >commies still decide to ruin it
Kill all communists wherever they are spotted.
Jason Nguyen
>fucking Kazhakstan is more literate Moortugal indeed
Jack Williams
>literacy >good
Aiden Edwards
You need to add that were winning the war They probably would have put down the chimpout
Joshua Butler
I mentioned that in my previous post.
They had basically won the war in Angola and Mozambique. The two areas were almost completely pacified, even beyond mere K/D ratios which are irrelevant.
They won and then commies revolted and gave it all away, spitting on the graves of the fucking heroes who saved earth's oldest empire.
Eli Stewart
>Illiterateugal
Robert Diaz
>They won and then commies revolted and gave it all away, spitting on the graves of the fucking heroes who saved earth's oldest empire.
And of course right after that both Angola and Mozambique fell into civil war
>commies usurp functional Cathofascism for a failed, impending-client state of Brazil
Tyler Evans
Define fascism
Carson Garcia
But the coup was done by the people being asked to die for the empire.
The families of all the young men being sent, they wanted peace to have their boys back, not glory.
Ian Torres
Salazar não fez nada de errado
Chase Reyes
Portugal was too irrelevant to do any harm.
Jayden Cooper
this. Hitler was also loved and respected for his economic accomplishments by his people, but when you get your country into a war that kills all your men, gets all your women raped, destroys your cities, and gets your country partitioned, it kinda overshadows any good you did for your country. plus muh holocaust.
Mussolini and Hirohito have a similar problem and Franco has that nastiness of the Spanish Civil War hanging over him.
Eli Martin
>Hirohito >hated by Nips
Nathan Hill
>gets all your women raped, Not sure about Soviet, but Nazi did this really often.
Wyatt Myers
central Asia is always way higher than you expect on stats like that because the Soviet Union pumped so many resources into making them not total shitholes
Nathaniel Roberts
he did the best he could with a negrified population
Sebastian Cruz
He was one of the few dictators who actually cared about his country and wanted it to succeed instead of just being a power-hungry cunt.
He still deserves criticism for becoming a stubburn old man and refusing to let go of his colonies and reform his regime. He should have known better, but despite his remarkable intelligence and humble personality he still fell victim to his ego. Salazar is a good example while no one should hold power for too long, it corrupts even genuinely nice guys
