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.
- Date
- 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional (SPN), Lisbon (authorship inferred by the library from the text)
- Country
- Portugal
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Estado Novo
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Fear appealCard stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (BNP), Biblioteca Nacional Digital, via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as stated by the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and Europeana
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca Nacional Digital, PURL 22601, via Europeana record 10501/bib_rnod_39221.
Text on the object
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
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.
