: By playing hard-to-get, he secured massive trade concessions, weapons, and steel mill funding from both the United States and Nazi Germany. 🐍 The Smoking Snakes
: Before 1939, Brazil was viewed as an isolated agricultural exporter. Brazil: The Fortunes of War
: In defiance, the 25,000-strong Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) adopted a patch of a snake smoking a pipe and fought bravely alongside the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy. 🏗️ Rebirth of a Nation : By playing hard-to-get, he secured massive trade
: Skeptics claimed it was more likely for a "snake to smoke a pipe" than for Brazil to send troops to fight. Fifth Army in Italy
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: Brazil's charismatic and cunning dictator who ruled through his "Estado Novo" regime.
: Vargas expertly played the Axis and Allied powers against each other.