Entre o silêncio e a celebração: as ações da esquerda no Brasil na Guerra Fria

Abstract

The military regime implemented in Brazil on March 31, 1964, ending on January 15, 1985, with a 21-year duration, generated a great wound in the country that insists on remaining open to the present day. With a huge historiography where most of the time he proposes to focus his research on the narrative built about this period from the perspective of the political persecuted, the main objective of this paper is to discuss the points of view about how the fields that hold the means of mass communication addressed communism and, to unleash the context in which the country found itself during the post-war period, entering this blatant "silence" where the two US and USSR powers, without firing even an ammunition, gained territory and celebrated their achievements as a demonstration of power. If, on the one hand, there were publishers and newspapers (including right here in Maceió) adept at communism and armed struggle, on the other hand, there were military personnel willing not to condone and expel Soviet influence from the country. Each side had its tactics and allies, and although we have contact with a narrative more defended by leftist sectors in the country, the current scenario seems favorable to make more researchers seek to listen to the most ignored side in this process.