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title: Lisboa viveu durante anos sob o terror da Legião Vermelha (Lisbon lived for years under the terror of the Red Legion)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lisboa-sob-o-terror-da-legiao-vermelha-1936/
description: Text-only red-and-black poster claiming that Lisbon lived 'under the terror of the Legião Vermelha', that the police commander arrested criminals and…
section: Collection
---

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# Lisboa viveu durante anos sob o terror da Legião Vermelha (Lisbon lived for years under the terror of the Red Legion)

Text-only red-and-black poster claiming that Lisbon lived 'under the terror of the Legião Vermelha', that the police commander arrested criminals and 'politics' released them, and giving a count of bomb incidents in 1924, before crediting 'the Estado Novo' with years of internal peace. The tell: a threat from the pre-1926 past is set against the regime's present with figures that carry no source on the poster.

## Text on the object

Original (Portuguese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LISBOA VIVEU DURANTE ANOS
sob o terror da
Legião Vermelha
O Comandante da Polícia de Segurança Pública,
Ferreira do Amaral, prendia os criminosos.
A POLÍTICA SOLTÁVA-OS.
Em 1924 houve em Lisboa
36 presenças de bombas explosivas por vezes
em copiosa quantidade
e 7 crimes sociais de outra natureza
Ao ESTADO NOVO deve PORTUGAL
alguns lustros
de paz interna e trabalho tranqüilo
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
LISBON LIVED FOR YEARS
under the terror of the
Red Legion
The Commander of the Public Security Police,
Ferreira do Amaral, arrested the criminals.
POLITICS RELEASED THEM.
In 1924 in Lisbon there were
36 appearances of explosive bombs, at times
in copious quantity
and 7 social crimes of another kind
Portugal owes to the ESTADO NOVO
some lustrums (five-year periods)
of internal peace and quiet work
```

Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader; 'lustros' is rendered as five-year periods. The printed orthography 'tranqüilo' is kept.

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