Communism and anti-communism under the gaze of the political police

Abstract

The article results from a talk given at an event about Integralism, in whose initial part the author makes a brief assessment of the anti-communist phenomenon in Brazil. The article then analyzes the issue of the fight against communism from the point of view of the political police and the intelligence organs of the military regime, which held in anti-communism one of the main references in forming their identity and sense of mission.