UDC 323.2 BBK 66.69 F43 Ferrari M. The Dictator Who Died Twice: The Incredible Story of António Salazar / Marco Ferrari ; Translated from Italian. — Moscow : Alpina Publisher, 2024. — 224 pages. He knew everything about France, but nothing about Portugal; he understood what was happening in distant Moscow, but not in his native Lisbon. He did not realize that he no longer controlled his own country — he had been removed almost two years earlier, but he never understood it. António Salazar ruled a vast colonial empire for over 40 years but became a victim of his own favorite creation — censorship. Italian journalist Marco Ferrari explores the history of Europe's longest dictatorship — from its origins in the 1930s, during the times of Hitler, Franco, and Mussolini, to its decline in the 1970s, the era of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. He tells the story of the controversial figure António Salazar, a former seminarian and provincial teacher who managed to keep Portugal out of the world war, while simultaneously creating a sophisticated repressive apparatus and desperately trying to hold the empire from collapsing. This is a tragic and incredible story about how dictators and dictatorships die.