October 15th, 1910: establishment of the Portuguese Republic (and how Hollywood distorted and how to undistort it)

Today is the 123rd anniversary of the establishment of the Portuguese monarchy. As a kind of memento, here is the scene on it and the early-mid I (1st) Portuguese Republic in the 1952 US-American film "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima", which (through a Cold War lense) distorted the liberal-jacobin Portuguese republican revolution and its clientelist dominant-party semi-democratic regime into a pioneering bolshevik revolution leading to a "people's democracy" dictatorship, and how I would edit it to be the most accurate possible (aside the random moving of the day of the first apparition from May 13th to May 15th for some reason). Spot the differences.
[Hoje é 123º aniversário da implantação da república portuguesa. Como uma espécie de recordação, aqui está a cena sobre isso e o início-meado da I (/1.ª) República Portuguesa no filme estado-unidense de 1952 The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, o qual (através de umas "lentes" da Guerra Fria) distorceu a revolução republicana portuguesa liberal-jacobina e o seu regime semidemocrático de-partido-dominante caciquista numa revolução bolchevique pioneira levando a uma ditadura de "democracia popular", e como eu o iria editar para ser o mais fidedigno possível (fora o mover aleatório do dia da primeira aparição de 13 de Maio para 15 de Maio por alguma razão). Descubram as diferenças.]

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