Ditadura Militar Brasileira: entre o negacionismo histórico e o flerte da sociedade brasileira com o autoritarismo

Abstract

This research aims to expose what is, how to emerge and what are the characteristics of historical revisionism in relation to the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It started from the general objective of examining in what kind of socioeconomic scenario the historical revisionist discourse on the military regime emerges. For that, it was adopted as specific objectives, (i) describing the historical revisionist discourse from the social network Facebook; and (ii) discussing historical revisionism based on its contextual socioeconomic insertion. As methodology, bibliographic review and document analysis were used. The time frame between 2014- 2020 was adopted for harvesting data from the social network Facebook, a period that includes the fall of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise of President Jair Bolsonaro. The final results demonstrated their inspirations and how the negationist speeches survived until the year 2020, in addition, it was evidenced how such speeches, although they do not find a chorus in most of society, are strong enough to overcome the social barrier, take to the streets and even elect negative supporters.