The Eurovision Song Contest on TG2. # Moreover, not the one that is about to begin in Sweden but the iconic one from 1974 who brought democracy back to Portugal. # Unthinkable, just 5 years ago. # And instead, in the 1pm edition of the news of the second Rai network, #a #report dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, on that #25th #April 1974, was broadcast. who overthrew 41 years of Estado Novo dictatorship.
We told the story #a little while ago, but it is worth underlining here that the service, as part of extensive coverage of the anniversary in Italy, reported in great detail those 22 hours that changed the history of #a country. The service is available at this link starting from minute 25.
“Notes heard so many times that they would not have aroused suspicion in the regime”
These are the words of the #report talking about Paulo Carvalho’s song “Eurovision success”, recalling how it was used as #a signal for coordination. # Then the quote from the song “Grandola vila morena” by Alfonso Zeca and the chronicle of the excited hours that gave Portugal two years of transition before free elections and the official arrival of democracy.
In the middle, the story of “Celeste dos Cravos”, the flower girl Celeste Caeiro who gave carnations as #a sign of peace in those 25 years, also to the soldiers of the Armed Forces Movement, who placed them on the barrels of their rifles. # Hence the name Carnation Revolution, one of the very few bloodless revolutions in history.
The presence of #a #report on this fact that is very well known to the average Eurovision audience but much less so to the Italian one is testimony to how the great work done by Rai in recent years has finally borne excellent fruit. # Eurovision as #a story of Europe is now also available on Rai networks and the fact that it is even talked about on the news can only please us.
