Fantasia Lusitana

The imagined and imaginary propaganda from Salazarism, during the World War II, preached the achievement of neutrality due to Salazar’s genius. According to this propaganda, which claimed the absence of war in the midst of war, even with the influx of refugees arriving in Lisbon, Portugal was a paradise of peace and tranquility, a “peaceful oasis”. That feeling that this propaganda transmitted was from a war that only effected the Portuguese according to its survival difficulties. The propaganda, set to extremes on the “Jornal Português” chronicles, helped creating a kind of protective unconsciousness that would be funny if it was not tragic.