The Juvenile Movement of Democratic Unity () was the youth wing of a
Portuguese
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democratic platform that opposed the dictatorship of
António Oliveira Salazar, the
Movement of Democratic Unity The Movement of Democratic Unity ( pt, Movimento de Unidade Democrática or MUD) was a quasi-legal platform of Portuguese democratic organizations that opposed the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar and was founded in October 1945 ...
.
Personalities like
Mário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th presid ...
,
Mário Sacramento
Mário Emílio de Morais Sacramento (July 7, 1920 – March 27, 1969) was a Portuguese physician and essayist that became famous for his antifascist activities against the dictatorial regime led ...
,
Octávio Pato
Octávio Floriano Rodrigues Pato (1 April 1925, Vila Franca de Xira – 19 February 1999) was a Portuguese communist leader.
Biography
Octávio started working at 14 in a shoe factory. At the same time he also played soccer on S.L. Benfica's you ...
,
Júlio Pomar
Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM (10 January 1926 – 22 May 2018) was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was often considered the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation.
Early life and career (1940s and 1950s)
Pomar first ...
or
Salgado Zenha
Francisco Salgado Zenha GCL (2 May 1923, Braga – 1 November 1993, Lisbon) was a Portuguese left-wing politician and lawyer.
As a student at the University of Coimbra, he was elected president of the Academic Association of Coimbra, bein ...
were members of the Central Committee of the Juvenile MUD.
References
20th century in Portugal
Portuguese Communist Party
Youth wings of political parties in Portugal
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