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unusual facts about União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil


União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil

However in the 1940s, the samba was already being stimulated by the national regime of Getúlio Vargas, but this fact did not impede that during the year of 1946 UGES and the PCB started getting closer.


Federação Brasileira de Escolas de Samba

Because the União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil, then called UGES, was linked with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), more conservative sectors of Carioca politics spurred the creation of FBES in 1947 with the goal of weakening the communists.


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