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WWII Portugese Rifleman (Minor) v.1.0
Iberian Pack: Spanish Falange and Portugese Rifleman: Get it here, at my units section (post 5)
Note: To all you WWII-Scenario experts and What-if-World builders- here is your genuine Portugese Rifleman Soldier as appeared in the period of WWII.
Estado Novo (Portuguese: New State) is the name of the Portuguese Conservative Authoritarian regime installed in 1933, following a coup d'état against the democratic republic by the army in 1926. The Estado Novo was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, ruler of Portugal from 1932 to 1968.
The Estado Novo was a dictatorial regime with a fascist orientation, which differed from other fascist-oriented regimes, like Nationalist Spain or Italy by its more moderate use of state violence. Salazar was a Catholic traditionalist who believed in the necessity of control over the forces of economic modernisation in order to defend the catholic and rural values of the country, which he imagined under threat (...) enforcing Nationalist and Catholic values onto the Portuguese population. The whole Education System was directed to the exaltation of the Portuguese Nation and its overseas colonies (the Ultramar). The motto of the regime was Deus, Pátria e Familia (meaning God, Fatherland and Family). Later on the main raison d'être of the regime came to be an attempt to resist the wave of decolonization which swept Europe after the end of WWII. (...) India invaded and annexed Portuguese India in 1961. Independence movements also became active in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, and a series of colonial wars started.
What if the Portugese Dictatorship had foreseen the downfall of its overseas Empire and decided to join the other fascist regimes, the Axis Powers to try to reverse the trend and preserve its national interests? Download this unit to find out and Njoy!
