Lisbon: The Memorial to the Fallen Portuguese Soldiers (1961-1974)

A few minutes to the right of the Tower of St. Vincent (Belem Tower), I came across the deeply moving memorial to the Portuguese soldiers who fell fighting nationalist movements in former Portuguese colonies in Africa between 1961 and 1974.

The picture below catches the Portuguese soldier who stands in front of both the triangular-shaped memorial and flame: 

Behind the memorial and flame, the names of about 9,000 fallen Portuguese soldiers from 1961-1974 are etched on a wall:

While looking at the memorial, I couldn't help but think of the former Portuguese leader, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970):

And when I got back home, I wanted to get to know a bit more about him, more than what Western politically-'correct' revisionist accounts of history say about him (e.g. they reduce him to the level of being a 'dictator' when he seems to have been far more multidimensional). 

And interestingly enough, just through a basic internet search, I discovered that Salazar had been a devout Catholic; had been a gifted economist who saved Portugal from communism/socialism; and had been one of the most (if not the most) vocal Western critics of Hitler during the 1930s (I wonder why Western politically-'correct' revisionist accounts of Salazar do not seem to mention the last point ???).