Mocidade Portuguesa

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Standard of the Mocidade Portuguesa (based on the flag of D. João I).
Standard of the Mocidade Portuguesa (based on the flag of D. João I).

The Mocidade Portuguesa (English: Portuguese Youth) was a compulsory Portuguese paramilitary youth organization under the right-wing regime of the Estado Novo, under dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, with smilarities and based upon the model of the Nazi Hitler Youth[citation needed]. Founded in 1936, it was dissolved after the Carnation Revolution of 1974, being considered as a Fascist organization.

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