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Thanks for recognising Portugal’s participation in this period! Great video;)

The Front a I just found this channel due to the Link in the Description and went “WHAT! I CAN BELIEVE I MISSED THIS GEM OF A YT CHANNEL!”

Very accurate video indeed some details i haven't even heard of tbh! You earned a sub here!

Great video! I'd love the watch that video about Sousa Mendes. But... : you have to practice a bit to say his name correctly!! 😂 (don't worry: it's a difficult name in a difficult language. I'll be pleased to help you on that if you need to). Again: great work!

É lidar irmoum

@@goncalovcoelho15 ya my bad xD

IT IS WHAT IT IS IRMOUM! IS LIDAR

PORTUGAL CARALHEEEEE SACANAS DOS CARALHES JA FOSTE

@@goncalovcoelho15 Caralho... De onde é essa expressão "é lidar irmoum"? Nunca ouvi...

Boa 😂😂😂😂

@@capitaotuga4080 ahah muito bom

És o rei 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Fds hahahhaa

Ahahahah

hahah. I get it but your only as good as your word (Deal)...no matter how long ago you said it.

To be fair, Portugual was allied with Britain throughout most of those 650 years

So that's where Dragon Age Origins got it from.

@Bobby Banana and pillaging the country while doing so. Portugal had more economic loss from the British helping than from Napoleon invading.....

@Bobby Banana yeah they came to help us a lot, but sometimes they would forget to leave...

Oh good times now, I'm portuguese and why you do dat to me?

Remember our spice filled ships? Remember our cities in India?

@@joaodiniz6123 Brasil: pior erro de vossas vidas. É extremamente triste ver portugueses sendo influenciados pela cultura brasileira.

@@user-jj4lc2jd8j '-'

1890*

Yes, we are great! (Just don't look into what we did to jews centuries before...)

I’d love to know the story of how they ended up here. How did they get that chance? Did Sousa Mendes help them? Why did they choose to stay here instead of going to the USA or Israel? I wish we were able to save more people but I’m glad that at least your great grandparents and a few others made it here safely.

@@euroesc5013 its part of a bigger story. One Portugal should be proud of. Portugal is free by nature and represents freedom, truly.

I moved here 6 years ago. I love your country, man. I love Ainsley too.

@@euroesc5013 Aristides de Sousa Mendes passava vistos para que os judeus conseguissem fugir, segundo o que me lembro.

Desenmerda-te

Ninguem diz isso.Todos dizem fode-te

@@camachojoao69 Depende da situação ou região

Ouve-se muito cá pra cima

@@camachojoao69 Vai pó Caralho tbm se usa muito

Portugal é o nº um

@@somedude6390 mais nada

Vambora crl

mah nada crl somos os melhores

Portugal has never failled an Ally. In our culture there is nothing worse than betrayal.

One or the most important country to the world we know nowadays.

10 biggest empire in the history, if Portugal didn't exist in the Middle age the world would be much different than it is today

Portugal still has a very big diplomatic soft power

I like to be in a forgotten country, if it means there is no war, nor conflicts, all's great!! That's the great power of being underestimated and neutral!

@@anamargaridacosta1935 not that simple, we still belong to NATO, meaning if there is conflict we gotta be there, Iraq, Afghanistan, African central republic... E sim sou militar

Our pleasure, friend. And we love that you love our videos.

Too many see the war only in terms of mass troop movements and shifting lines. Just because a nation didn't send thousands, or millions of soldiers didn't mean it didn't participate or have an influence.

Portugal also helped China in ww2

@Faschy Goy pq pá?

@Faschy Goy porque?

AHAhahahahahahahahahaha muito bom

Não entendi

Tbm não entendi

Entendi agora.

@@hugomlpaixao, os tomates ficam sempre de fora.

Wish I get some recognition to my Country in WWII (It's Malta.) We where the most Bombed in WWII. If you don't believe me search up "The Most Bombed Country of WWII" 👍👍

Well-deserving of it, I'd say!

@@thegaminggeneral7243 yeah I agree

@@TheFront thx :)

Ó irmão tuga💪🇵🇹

❤

É A LEI

This post is underated!!!

PORTUGAL CARALHOOOOO!!!!!

Portugal CARALHO

Bora caralhoooo

Thanks for sharing!

I live in Lisbon. Where did she stay and what where her impressions?

@Yeah Nah we all love a good pastel de Belém

I just love when this happens. There is a history video and someone from the comments are closely related to them.

In Budapest, I visited the Jewish area of the town and there is a memorial to a Portuguese consul called Carlos Branquinho. Another diplomat at the time was Sampaio Garrido, in case you want to research more about this topic. :)

Han? Tas a sério?

@@andregolovan5110 sim é verdade! Ela confirmou isso no Twitter

@@Mariiji confirma se que ela se inspirou nos estudantes de Coimbra, nos seus trajes académicos, também para o livro?

Sim as roupas foram inspiradas nos trajes academicos de portugal

E as escadas daquela livraria... a Lelo acho eu (do Porto)

Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Iceland: Yes!!!

Jami Finland didn’t exactly want to be neutral. They chose the attack the Soviets because they were upset about losing the Winter War. They chose not to be neutral

Sweden claimed neutrality but in reality were just complicit. Also Sweden became a battleground in spite of it all.

@@thunderbird7020 Finland declared neutrality in the early stages of the war when Germany invaded Poland I believe. The neutrality ended when Soviet union suddenly invaded the country in 1939.

Jami Finland was neutral, but had its own mini war with the Soviet Union which they lost (it was separate from WW2 completely). They then joined world war 2 by attacking the Soviet Union alongside Germany.

that was why James Bond was invented!!

A minha Lisboa... Saudades... A ver se beijo o solo este ano... E sim,Lx era um ninho de espiões...

It's just bs that "most of the food" was exported. I have heard this claim many times, always 0% sources. Just like the claim that Salazar organized night flights just like Pinochet.

@@GabrielNicho bs or not, truth is people DID starve in a neutral country

That was just because Salazar was a disaster ...he did that after the war as well ..he would out everything in gold on the national Bank, just a few families could have a lot...the rest...for him...was the"people" garbage...that needed the 3 F...Fatima... Football and Fado....

@@brunosa7045 When was there starvation under Salazar? Depression? WW2? There was starvation everywhere basically in those years. There was no starvation in Portugal post ww-2.

@@GabrielNicho during salazar there was full blown starvation. go learn some history from some real grandparents, not your sheltered salazarinho ones...

And we were taking those Spanish colonies for centuries(ever wonder how Brazil got so large) , the secret is that Spain seems strong on the outside but inside they are a disaster, they all seem to hate each other. Also Portugal border region has major choke points and the Spanish side either has lots of mountains or if flat(south) they have to keep a supply train trough a desert because that region is inhospitable , within Spain itself. The two vulnerabilities in Portuguese border were known, during the Napoleanic wars the two places had the largest fortification of the type in the world. Also the only way to take Portugal is to go for Lisbon, on the south there is a major river delta, and north there can be built defenses(The Duke of Wellington got its fame for defensive war from that). You have to block the port for it to surrender, usually in history Portuguese Navy was more than enough to take on Spain(the point at which Portugal was at most Peril was in 1385,and the Navy lifted the blockade on Lisbon, how? Training, its the oldest still active Navy in the world by quite a margin). Also for the longest time although rivals they disputed mainly territories in South America, and they rarely invaded to take Portugal, you see both countries are very Catholic( Catholicism would not be such a large religion today if not from these two's) , and both rights of their Kings were recognised by the Pope, for any of them it would be unholy to take any of each others right.

@@fabiorosario3501 portugal didnt lose every war fought to conquer other nations. portugal didnt "conquer" nations at all actualy. we did manage to conquer madrid in more than one ocasion tho so if you want to count that yah can mate

Fabio Rosario what? Portugal won most battles in its history

@@fabiorosario3501 I'm sorry does america, asia and africa not exist? cause there were nations there and the portuguese did fight and win against them

@@zestorm6233 yes it did, you guys think no one lived in any place of the portuguese colonies? if you're saying not european nation yhea it didn't conquer any but thats because it would be stupid to try, even if it was conquered it only gave them a territory that they didn't have enough soldiers to maintain, thats why portugal focused on conquering small colonies expanding them after population starts growing there, but back to the european shit, portugal didn't conquer but did fight with a lot of powerful nations and won, just look at any ottoman vs portuguese battle

Just one thing. Salazar was a fascist dictator, just as Mussolini, Hitler and Franco. The Portuguese people were not fond of the Regime. You can easily see that with the events of 25th of April 1974 when a Revolution broke out in the Portuguese Armed Forces and not a single gun was fired. No one supported Salazar.

@@carlosgomes1998 i cannot talk much as i am no expert but the only ideoligical complains i see of salazar were focused on lisbon and porto as he did crack down in the intelectuals, as for mist of the country the only complain was the lack of food and does who knew the outside world felt like portugal was falling behind in terms of industrialisation what was true, though the gold reserves did not last much after they started beign used

@@vicvincevitaly Are you Portuguese? I mean, I am portuguese and I can easily say that the majority of people did not support the Regime since there was no freedom of speach, no political freedom, no freedom of gathering. There was a generalised lack of food in the country. Although I believe in you when you say that there were forced soldiers to join the revolution, you are dead wrong when you say that the people support the regime...

@@wtwarrior7698 most of the complains was the lack of freedom. People couldnt hear some specific radio frequencies (pirate radios), some foreign TV channels were also forbidden. The regime started a Secret Political Police called PIDE where if some told them that you were against the regime you would end up in jail

25 de Abril sempre!

Same lol

Haha, gold, hey.

Danny cul yet the dude in the thumb looks like Trump. Wonder why.

Is that a "six pack" ?😄😄

Não conseguiriam pronunciar corretamente nem se a vida deles dependesse disso!

Eu juro que não percebi o nome do que ajudou os judeus, ouvi qualquer coisa mendes

@@sandroribeiro7644 É Aristides de Sousa Mendes :D Não está mesmo fácil de perceber aqui

Not funny, horrendous.

@@ritaferreira529 *Arestédjes dé Soja Mendéch

Bill Hunt: ARISTIDES SOUSA MENDES ?

Comparing him to Schindler is a bit unfair. Yes, they do the same thing, save jews from certain death. But Schindler did that to 700 or 800 jews. Aristides do it for 30.000 jews. I don't remember the exact numbers, But is something on these lines.

There is a Portuguese film about him. And I heard that some international producer is planning to do another one, envolving Hollywood perhaps...

He had around 12 children and was punished by Salazar because he gave thousands of visas without authorization. He died completely bankrupt, almost in misery. But with a clean conscious.

HE'S FROM VISEU

Best comment ever!

n percebi, desculpa, podes explicar?

True.... salazar é o nome que damos às espátulas. RAPA TACHO.

LOL! me and my wife laughed out loud about this one

Gangue tuga com fotos de JOJO

and the oldest library in Porto was the inspiration for hogwarts

@@valerius610 She has said that one is not true. Maybe even the one i said isn't.

@@tiagoalbinski3520 oh ok , maybe ot wss just my hope talking.

non-belligerent

Eu sou. Mesmo português

Come back, we need you!

Me too! I am Brazilian 80% Portuguese and 20% German.

Hey I'm actually portuguese :)

@I am truly Greg yes it is, he always belong here if he has Portugal in his heart.

Não percebi bem essa parte?

@@jpomega ele era um ditador, mas, não era oficial, oficialmente ele era um "presidente"

@@andrewacacia9851 primeiro ministro

@José Mendes o título oficial era Presidente do Conselho de Ministros

@@aromaticsnail que corresponde ao de Primeiro-Ministro atualmente

'ameçar'? eles trairam Portugal e ainda não pararam de o fazer

@@jh5klTotalmente de acordo...Maior erro de Portugal foi ter renovado a aliança após a restauração da independência, bem que se fodeu à conta dos "aliados ". Inglaterra sempre teve complexo de superioridade, e nunca foi nossa amiga como muitos pensam, desonesta e traiçoeira, jamais nos respeitou...Unicamente norteada pelos seus interesses e conveniências, olhando-nos de cima para baixo ( algo que, aliás, faz com outras nações). A historiografia e os media estão totalmente dominados pela esfera anglofona, e eles contam a narrativa como bem entendem...Nisso, os espanhóis têm certa razão, houve propaganda e não foi pouca.

@@florazul-1191 a Historia demonstra o que acabou de dizer e ainda hoje as atitudes dos ingleses na politica internacional demonstra que eles pouco mudaram

What did I just read

@@cortomaltese5206 Portuguese humor. This joke was directly translated from portuguese

@@joaonuno924 eu estava a brincar

Peter Edwards your father has my respect for the service he had done for my country. salute

That's not true though. The allies invaded Timor, then the Japanese invaded because the allies were there. Salazar was upset about both. The Japanese even agreed to leave if Salazar sent more Portuguese tropps to hold it. Japan also never invaded Macau, it was bombed in 1945 by the United States though.

@D Ramalho Well, parts of the original post are not true. I am not aware of any deal between Salazar and the US that the US had to defend Timor, that is also not necessary since Japan even offered to leave if the allies left. So that's wrong. That the US did have to promise for the Azores base was to respect Portuguese territorial integrity.

I'm from Timor-Leste!

Tá falando oq do Brasil em irmão??? Kkkkkkk

Também reparei

Is that his accent? I was wondering what it was. I am strangely not familiar with it.

Não achei que fosse mt mau... Para um inglês

@@apedrosilva1103 o do Brasil tem uma pronúncia mais fácil acho eu

If we reached such point much is due to the political classes that have sold themselves to external interests.

Cough Finland... cough... cough.

We are so charitable that we sent all our steel industry to Germany after the war, now how kind is that?

Just read up on this a little. What a moustache.

We another name for that specific soldier. The name is translates literally to millions soldier

@@rodrigooliveira8049 And deserves it!

"chamas-te Milhais, mas vales Milhões",(sayd his commander)

That man was a god

Belgium had 2 different ethnic SS divisions so your story would be interesting 👌🏾

Jimmy Yu 😂

Clearly they forgot about that piece of paper during the ultimatum

Ei, é tinta portuguesa. Eu não tenho que explicar merda nenhuma

@@thejecs8 The ink only matters when it's in their favour.

It’s worth noting that the Anglo-Portuguese treaty had been in effect all that time. And still is, actually. Oldest Alliance on Earth. Not that Britain didn’t fuck over Portugal plenty of times. Perfidious Albion is Perfodious.

Well said!

Cheers! Also, have you watched our video on Brazil? Surely!

YOU have a great day.

That's an interesting suggestion. We'll see how it travels. Cheers!

@Masterffc you gotta learn from the past or you are destined to repeat it. Even if you know, others don't.

rly?

I'd love to see a video dedicated to Sousa Mendes. He helped even more Jews than Oskar Schindler

Schindler is the brand of the lift of the Lisbon's building where I live :)

My great grandpa and grandma is from there and I'm from the u.s, and someday I hope to go there

Um madeirence na internet! Que raro encontrar um conterrâneo! Abraço e muita açorda com poncha!

MADEIRA CARAAAALHHOOOO

Hey, thanks, man!

I'm portuguese so I know a bit of is history. Edit: Arestides died in misery because Salazar didn't like his actions

@@rodrigooliveira8049 its more complicated than that

@@rodrigooliveira8049 no. Was not due to Salazar. Aristides e Sousa Mendes was from an rich aristocratic family. Investigate how he lost is fortune...

@@nunocorreia75 and there's some people that say that he got paid by the refugees.

Yes its true, he didnt want to use because the ally countries could start thinking wrong things about portugal.

Yes it’s true and PORTUGAL CARALHOOO!!

Não me lembrava dessa história, mas agora que falaste acho que alguma vez li algo do género, obg por me relembrares

PORTUGAL CARALHOOOOOO!!!!

Many centuries ago we made our biggest mistake, never ever again, you are most welcome to my, your, country.

We Are With You Guys. 🇵🇹❤✡

is name was Aristides Sousa Mendes Portuguese ambassador in Bordeaux / France), not Schindler

That is Salazar, Mendes was one of the government extended arms.

...there are many more "Mendes" in Portugal, also in Spain. The trains were traveling sealed from France, only a high command is able to proceed that way.

I knew of Colombia's importance thanks to Pablo ESCOBAR, el gran patron !

Dizem que o problema da soja é o excesso de estrogénio...

Eishhh boca pa estrondo

Graças a Salazar 🇵🇹

fantasias anglo saxonicas, que escondem o facto que venderam um terço da Europa a stalin após a guerra

not the most neutral and informative one but

Yeah but Sousa Mendes was also driven by money though don't forget that. Aristides de Sousa Mendes charged jewish families fortunes in exchange for safety. That's something our history books don't tell and that´s a shame, but our history books only tell the part of the story that they like. I used to study history with my grandmother when I was younger and she would get suprised with how the History books i used in school only told a part of what really happenned and they always tried to twist the story in some way. So yeah Aristides de Sousa Mendes was lowkey exactly the same as Schindler

@@afonsomaiadeloureiro8826 De onde tirou isso? Não tenho sequer a ideia que mesmo o Salazar o tenha acusado disso, apesar de o querer incriminar.

@@afonsomaiadeloureiro8826 that's the same in other like Spain's history books tell different stories, about those many lost battles against us

@@afonsomaiadeloureiro8826 history is told by the winners....

sousa mendes? ahahahahahah yeah right!

Thanks, man. We'll keep it coming.

Ngl the british guy above is funny af, Im Portuguese btw

Both these comments are great. Im a portugese guy that lives in Britain btw

ireland didnt have ( and still dont have) any army/navy to be considerated a player on the war...portugalon other way was already on war in the african colonies, thats one and maybe the major factor that salazar choose to be "neutral" at ww2

im a living persona btw

​@@luismiguelmarquesrodrigues4139 Portuguese colonial war just started in 1961 and the tensions in 50's. Portugal didn't had any trouble in his colonies and almost all of them had borders with british/french colonies. The only colonies with maybe some problems to defend were the asian colonies because of japan. Portugal had bigger and better army (than ireland), but couldn't never defend himself from axis, even with allies help. Salazar knew well what to do and which card he had to play.

exactly

Salazar 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

I do think Salazar cared deeply about the country, at least in its own way and his vision was no doubt flawed in many ways. And sometimes even ignorant ( im looking at grain laws he mandated to the country and specially Alentejo, they were destructive imo). Even though we cant ignore the context of the country at the time. Very different reality we have now, on the social, and economic, and even cultural level imo. We had a very simple and deeply religious country. And he kinda reflected that in a way. But he was a politician that wasn't self serving. In the sense he wasn't there to get rich personally, and he totally could. I mean he was a dictator. But he didn't , and didn't allowed his ministers and politicians to do it either. I dont think he was a monster like Hitler or Stalin which had obvious personal grievances, and phobias regarding certain peoples, and ethnicities. He however was very paranoid regarding Bolshevism, but not incomprehensible when we take into account the time period in question, and where he comes from. We as Portuguese also tend to forget it wasn't Salazar that created the dictatorship. It was the Military who destroyed the first Republic to begin with, and founded the dictatorship. Salazar is a creation of their own making. It is ironic that would be also the military to end the Regime many decades later.

Mano, uma coisa muito encoberta é que Salazar modernizou as forças armadas, construiu imensas infraestruturas importantes para o país, levantou a glória portuguesa lembrando os tempos de ouro do nosso país, tudo isso é encoberto e Salazar é MUITO difamado, sim, ele era um ditador, mas conseguiu fazer mais pelo nosso país do que muitos outros presidentes

@@luismendes3307 tal como o Hitler.... o meu ponto mantêm-se e tu só estás a ajudar a sustentá-lo. e BTW ele não é "difamado", ele fez coisas horrendas e não é por nos concentramos nessa parte da história que estamos a falar mal dele, difamação é quando o que se diz é mentira para prejudicar que não é o caso aqui, os factos são o que são, e o bom que ele fez não supera o mal, o fim não justifica os meios e o caminho pro inferno está pavimentado de boas intenções