Today is an essential day in Italy and Portugal.
Both countries celebrate the anniversary of the liberation.
Liberation Day is celebrated in Italy every year on April 25, a significant anniversary in Italian history because it commemorates the liberation of Italy from Nazi fascism, with the end of the Nazi occupation and the fall of fascism.
It is a national holiday, a symbol of the Resistance, of the partisan struggle waged since 8 September 1943 (the day the Italians learned of the signing of the armistice in Cassibile).
The war did not end on April 25, 1945. This is a symbolic day, chosen because on this date the retreat of the Germans and the soldiers of the Republic of Salò from Milan and Turin began, following the breakthrough of the Gothic Line by the Allies and the action of the Resistance.
On the proposal of Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi, on April 22, 1946, King Umberto II issued a decree: “A celebration of the total liberation of the Italian territory, April 25, 1946, is declared a national holiday”. The anniversary was also celebrated in the following years, but only in 1949 was it institutionalized as a national holiday, together with June 2, Republic Day.
Since then, every year, in various cities of Italy from north to south, public demonstrations are organized on April 25 in memory of the Liberation. Among the events is the solemn homage, by the President of the Italian Republic and the high offices of the State, to the Unknown Soldier at the Altare della Patria in Rome, with the deposition of a laurel wreath in memory of the fallen and lost Italians in the wars.
Instead in Portugal, they celebrate the Revolution of carnations (Revolução dos cravos).
It was the bloodless military coup d’état in Portugal which in 1974 put an end to the dictatorial regime known as Estado Novo (New State) established by António Salazar in 1933. The overthrow of the regime was carried out by the progressive faction of the armed forces Portuguese who deposed Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano, Salazar’s successor from the latter’s infirmity in 1968, and started the country’s democratic transition, which was completed at the end of a two-year period punctuated by bitter political struggles.
Over the years, the ideological charge of the Revolution was lost. In the constitutional reforms of 1982 and 1989 almost all the original ideological references were eliminated (with some exceptions), the socialist principles of the economy were cancelled (such as the agrarian reform, the irreversibility of nationalizations and the existence of the social property, constituted by the “means of production exploited collectively and directly by the workers”), and the role of the MFA as guarantor of the maintenance of democratic institutions and popular sovereignty was eliminated. This allowed, in 1986, the entry of Portugal into the European Economic Community (later the European Union) and the definitive recovery of the economy.
Today April 25 is a Portuguese national holiday, called by the Portuguese people: Dia da Liberdade (Freedom Day), with demonstrations in celebration of civil liberties and political rights obtained after the Revolution.
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