<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_of_25_November_1975" id="mwAU4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coup of 25 November 1975">Coup of 25 November 1975</a>, a failed military <i id="mwAU8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état" id="mwAVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a></i> carried out by Portuguese far-left activists, who hoped to hijack the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_transition_to_democracy" id="mwAVE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Portuguese transition to democracy">Portuguese transition to democracy</a> in favor of the establishment of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" id="mwAVI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communism">communist</a> dictatorship.<sup about="#mwt95" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_25#cite_note-17" id="mwAVM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVQ">[17]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt99" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_25#cite_note-18" id="mwAVU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVY">[18]</span></a></sup>
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