Would Portugal have become a minor power if the April revolution

Having your government collapse counts as "truly losing."

>>591084
Did you even read what I asked?

>>591090
Yes. Your question was stupid. What you wanted to ask was "If Portugal had defeated the Mozambican and Angolan revolutionaries..."

>>591104
Not really. I asked that because the collapse of the government brought the war to a sudden halt. The insurgents in Angola and Mozambique were on the verge of defeat with the government controlling all the cities. Insurgency was only winning in Guinea.

But I'm also interested in what I supposedly wanted to ask.

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>>591074

It would be a rather wealthy country if the leadership following Salazar loved the country as much as he did.

It could have probably be compared to Switzerland.

The entirety of the situation regarding the revolution was just fucked.

Simply giving away the colonies, losing all the jobs and throwing the country into an economic collapse.

All that work undone.

I do wonder if there was anyone from the outside who wanted to fuck Portugal over, same goes for Brittain or hell the entirety of south Africa.


>"Let's just leave because staying here would be racist"

>"Surely, these people will be able to take care of themselves"

>>591184
Colonies just weren't cool no more, because muh human rights and all

>>591104
It was a military victory for Portugal.

The revolutionaries that took down the fascist, colonial government weren't Mozambican or Angolan.

The new, democratic, socialist-leaning government freed the colonies diplomatically, immediately after drafting the new constitution.

>>591184
The soldiers were tired of dying for the Estado Novo. They wanted to leave the Ultramar. Military promotion norms under the Estado Novo were extremely unfair. That's why the Carnation Revolution was led by the Armed Forces Movement.

Also, Salazar never did do squat for national industry. He was that scared of blue-collar ideologies, like socialism.

>>591074
Not really. Things were going to shit anyway, with a lot of money being spent on an endless war and most of the country in poverty and ignorance. The major problem in decolonization process was how sudden and poorly planned it was. The Portuguese families living there lost almost everything and became refugees in their own country. This combined with an absolute incompetence in the post-revolution period led Portugal to the shitty state they're in nowadays.

But the reason Portugal isn't a major power is because of how they managed all the riches from their colonies from the XVI century onwards.

>>591104
and it did tho, lol

>>591238
good post

>>591074
Colonies as a thing were dropped for more profitable post-colonialism.

Stop studying history, start understanding it.