Medo vermelho e anticomunismo na cidade de Nanuque-MG no contexto do golpe civil-militar de 1964

Abstract

Through a variety of expressions, anti-communism can be observed in different times of political crisis in Brazil. Being the periods before and after the civil-military coup of 1964 some of the moments of its greatest mobilization, Brazilian anti-communism manifested itself ostensibly on the political disputes extent. In this final paper, it is shown in which ways the anti-communist narrative had been present in the political clashes that took place in the city of Nanuque-MG, most especially in the institutional scope of the City Council. By analyzing the Chamber Minutes and having the periodical Folha de Nanuque as an important source of support, it is pointed out in this term paper the main ways of political actions used by the ones who sympathized with the red fear discourse amidst a scenario of intense dispute for political hegemony. While aiming also to contribute to the rekindled discussion on anticommunism and to fill part of the historical gaps about the coup, this final paper proposes, thus, to point out the clashes that were effusively evident in the so-called regional scenarios and in spaces often marginalized by historiographic studies.