The song that ended Europe's longest running fascist regime

Fifty years ago, on April 25, 1974, a Eurovision song played over the radio in Lisbon gave the signal for the beginning of a military coup in Portugal. Alex Fernandes, author of the book The Carnation Revolution, explains how it all started and why the revolution is named after a flower.
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