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Spouting from Portugal. In 2 months we/they will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolution overthrowing Fascism. I ask people what they or their parents, etc. remember about life in the dictatorship to get an idea of what people might expect here in case of a 2nd Trump term.
09:38 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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One guy said his grandfather used to put wet towels under the door. Angry neighbors would put socialist propaganda under each others' doors and then call the secret police.
09:40 AM - Feb 16, 2024 (Edited)
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Another said parents and children could not talk to each other about anything political because parents would rat out their children and vice versa. After the revolution, it took years before the older generation felt comfortable talking politics with the young.
09:41 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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One said his grandparents fled to Spain. When they approached the border, they rolled their 5 year old daughter in a rug so the border guards wouldn't separate them. Grandma bribed the guards with food to let them pass. A few km inside Spain, they unrolled the rug and let her out.
09:47 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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Another said the secret police arrested and tortured his uncle. They let his uncle go home a few days before he died.
09:50 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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I urge young people here to ask their parents and grandparents their stories before the old folks die and the stories are forgotten. I want them preserved, as Rudyard Kipling said, "Lest we forget. Lest we forget."
It could happen in America.
/fin
09:52 AM - Feb 16, 2024
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