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Political situation of Pernambuco before and right after the Great War
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On the other hand, the influx of industrialized goods made hundreds of local small businesses close due the inability to compete on the market, therefore forcing workers to move to foreign ruled factories. In the countryside, the arrival of industrialized furniture, textiles, clothes and shoes, made the local manufacture end.
==== '''Unsteady Years (1920-1940)''' ====
By 1920, the promises of progress brought by the deal with the British were far from being accomplished. Most of the positive economic results were concentrated on the east coast of the country, more specifically around the cities of Recife, Olinda, Parahiba, and Natal, which became rapidly wealthier due to the newly established industrial sites.
Industrialization started a process of rural migration, which resulted in the urban population rising quickly and the creation of the first slums. Urban life was also transformed as a result of the creation of the first worker unions and communard societies, inspired by the regime established in France in the late 19th century as an alternative to ease the lives of Pernambucan workers.
The popularity of these societies grew as strikes and public demonstrations were promoted. In 1923, the official first Communard party was created in Recife by calling for better work conditions and more rights for the worker class. However, the party was not able to gain enough seats in the Pernambucan government.
Inspired by the [[Russian Revolution]] in the 1920s, Pernambuco also saw the development of the first [[National Republican]] cells. Both communards and national republicans defended a process colloquially called ''desbritanização'' , Portuguese for something around the lines of ''debritishing''. The idea was to fight against the heavy British influence over the country in the economy, politics, and culture. By the end of the process, defenders say, a ''real'' independent nation.
In 1935, as the [[Great War]] broke out by Franco-Austrian aggression in Europe, the Pernambucan government under President José Cavalcanti adopted a strong pro-British foreign policy by cutting diplomatic ties with the Tripartite Coalition nations and used the opportunity to persecute Communardism in the country by declaring the ideology a threat to the order and the state. On the other hand, National Republicanism flourished in Pernambuco at the time, as Russia was among the members of the Cordial League alongside Britain and was tolerated by the government.
Once the Great War ended in 1939, the Silent War between the Anglo-led world and National Republican Russia. Pernambuco, although declaring itself neutral in the conflict, was close both economically and politically to the United Kingdom and the [[Organization of Democratic Nations]] (ODN).{{Nations of the World}}
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