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5 days ago · Tired of the ravages of the dictatorship and colonisation, they won the active support of the people. The uprising was nicknamed the Carnation Revolution after the flowers that protesters placed in the soldiers' guns and tanks, in a rare example of a military coup being staged to install democracy. The dictatorship collapsed in a single day.
5 days ago · During the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, the Portuguese military played Grandola Vila Morena on the radio as a secret signal to start the revolution. The song’s inclusion in the broadcast was a symbol of defiance against the oppressive regime, and it became an anthem for the fight for democracy.
5 days ago · The uprising was nicknamed the Carnation Revolution after the flowers that protesters placed in the soldiers' guns and tanks, in a rare example of a military coup being staged to install democracy ...
4 days ago · The Carnation Revolution played a crucial role in expediting the independence processes of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and Principe. The shift in regime in Portugal facilitated direct negotiations and independence agreements with liberation movements, accelerating the decolonization timeline in these African nations.
5 days ago · That was my April, my evolution… The courage to fill my lungs and blow out the candles on my birthday. The certainty of having been born, of being alive, the freedom to be myself, the joy, the celebration of love by those who love and protect one another, my cocoon. In that April, 80 years ago, the carnations were scented… 25 April 2024.
3 days ago · On 25 April 1974, military officers overthrew the nearly 50-year dictatorship in Portugal in a largely peaceful coup known as the Carnation Revolution. Named after the flowers civ
1 day ago · The Carnation Revolution of April 1974 in Lisbon led to the hasty decolonization of Portuguese Africa and to the 1975 annexation of Portuguese Timor by Indonesia. Decolonization prompted the exodus of nearly all the Portuguese colonial settlers and of many mixed-race people from the colonies. Portugal returned Macau to China in 1999.
