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“The lack of respect of this festive left in relation to the country’s past is an undesirable attitude” – Ramalho Eanes told Nascer do SOL, about the controversy over the removal of the coat of arms from Praça do Império, in Belém. The Republic added that this “new left”, even though it knows history, “does not know history.”
Stating that it is necessary to analyze each era and each event in its context, Eanes added that it was the Empire that guaranteed us sovereignty. “Without an empire we would hardly have maintained our independence at certain times. We would be a ‘less’ Catalonia. The empire allowed us to remain sovereign in the most difficult moments.
For the former President of the Republic, who was in Africa during the colonial war, but then participated on April 25 and was one of the ‘heroes’ of November 25, “what characterizes a people is their personality, their unity and its continuity, both in good things and in bad. ”For this reason, your obligation at all times is” to respect that personality, maintain your collective memory and guarantee its continuity, allowing it to remain throughout history. “
And he reinforced this idea: “Ending the memory of the past is not correct, it is unnecessary and undesirable.” In this sense, he is openly in favor of the conservation of the shields and against their withdrawal.
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