Comparison between Salazar and other Authoritarian Regime in the era

Estado Novo or simply the New put up was established after the overthrowing of the first republic in 1933. The second nation was established by Antonio de Oliveira. This haughty government adopted an integral predilection totally different from what characterized most of the fascist states in Europe. The basis of his authoritarian rule was on the premises of economic and policy-making stability he instituted major reforms which with child(p)ly privileged the people in the upper classes to the injury of the poor section of the society.The regimen that Salazar established was more inclined towards the perform and there was much influence from it, perhaps this emanates from the fact that he was a strong catholic himself. It has been described as a nationalist governmental regime which was almost similar to the one established hy his italian love seat , Benito Mussolini. The regime was nevertheless different from the Mussolini Fascism because of its different and less totalitar ian leanings. His accede was basically founded on the Catholicism and the Anti-socialism ideologies.Salazar did non claim in develop power for his regime with the same degree as fascist did (Cook, B 2001) One of the outstanding difference between Salazar and other dictators is that he did not intiate the cult of personality instead he is more recognized for his spotless simple and ascetic manners. his one party system was based on a different premise to those of Ger many an(prenominal) and Italy,the ruling party Unicao Nacional was not intend as a radical means of reshaping political view and mobilizing political opinion rather it was a device to create consensus or to demobilise politics altogether. (Lee,Stephen 2000) The origin of Salazar and Hitlers regimes is coincidental, Hitler and Salazar arose to power on the same stratum and precisely the same month, the both dictators ascension to power was seen by many as the hope of their nations. The two leaders had the same agen das but no(prenominal) seemed to be fascinated by the other. During the Second World War Portugal chose to extend neutral and safeguard her interest both locally and internationally.Her support for both of the sides would have threatened it own existence and the colonies it owned overseas. (Stanely, G 2008) possibly the common factor that the two dictators shared during this war period was the shame towards soviet communism, they felt that rise of communism would be a ample threat to the capitalist attitudes adopted by their regimes. (Lieitz, C 2000) notes that the two leaders worked very hard towards frustrating Soviet attempt to spread their communism ideologies to the different parts of Europe.Salazar and Franco of Portugal had a common fear of the Anglo-Russian agreement and the affinity that Russia was having with the United Nation. As time went on the two dictators greatly depended on Germany for trade as this was a very important element for their memory board of thei r power, they felt that the rise of communist power would have a great influence and this would ultimately jeopardize their regimes. (Cull, N Holbrook, D, Welch, D 2003)Stanely, G (1987) dimension Salazar regime survival in power to his manipulative ability where he gave some fictitious power to some of the institutions, elections continued to be held where chairman was elected but he continued to control the most sizeable office on the land, Stanely, G notes that Salazar allowed kept some kind of theme dispensation something which was totally different with Francos regime. According to Stanely and Paney this enabled Salazar to the degree of opprobrium suffered by the Franco regime in 1945(p631). scorn being a dictator he was able to penetrate the walls made by the international community disallow dictators the limelight enjoyed by the democracies especially in the western world. (Christian, L 2001) Despite the fact that Salazar wanted Portugal to thrive economically he has be en described as having established a traditional and conservative regime. Compared to what Mussolini and his Germany counterpart achieved he savage short of industrializing his country. He had no ambitions of expansion Portugal has no need for wars, usurpations or conquests (Lee, Stephen 2000).Portugal seemed more satisfied with what they had explaining the reason why Salazar felt they should first withhold what they had acquired in the past, this contradicted with Hitler and Mussolini who felt that expansion was the only way to consolidate power. Salazar regime has been described as one of the milder dictatorships in the period after the two great wars. The carefully adopted policy initiated and approached by Salazar explains why his regime outlived the other right wing authorities but this longevity has been greatly attributed to the countrys delay in democratization.