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The '''Portuguese Legion''' ({{lang-pt|Legião Portuguesa}}) was a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[paramilitary]] state organization founded in 1936 during the Portuguese President of the Council´s [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s far right-wing regime, the [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]]. Salazar copied the SA and the Blackshirts because he wanted to have more power over the Portuguese people. It was dissolved in 1974.
 
Its stated objectives were to "''defend the spiritual heritage [of Portugal]''" and to "''fight the [[communist]] threat and [[anarchism]]''". During [[World War II]], the Portuguese Legion was the only Portuguese state organization that openly adopted and defended [[Hitler]]'s aims for [[Europe]], some of them joined the German Army during the war, after the war the Portuguese Legion and Portugal itself were seen as fascists, so the Portuguese Legion lost some power.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}.