Portugal 1974 | The Revolution That Ended an Empire Overnight
Автор: Cold War Files
Загружено: 2026-01-15
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In April 1974, a peaceful military coup in Portugal dismantled one of Europe’s longest-standing dictatorships and triggered the rapid collapse of a global empire. Known as the Carnation Revolution, the event reshaped Portugal’s future, destabilized Cold War Africa, and exposed the internal vulnerabilities of the Western alliance.
This documentary explores how colonial war, economic exhaustion, and military disillusionment combined to bring down the Estado Novo regime almost overnight. It traces the fall of authoritarian rule, the volatile revolutionary period that followed, and the sudden decolonization that transformed Angola, Mozambique, and beyond into new Cold War battlegrounds.
The Carnation Revolution reveals how legitimacy, once lost, can cause even deeply entrenched systems to collapse without resistance — and how internal exhaustion, not foreign invasion, often proved decisive in the Cold War.
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