This article discusses the social memory of civil-military dictatorship in Brazil, specially the memory of President Emilio Medici's government. Based on the discussion of the metaphor of the leaden years, and on the vision of period under the angle of the golden of years, its purpose is to analyze the complexity of social behavior under the dictatorship and to discuss attitudes as passivity and indifference that, as well as active collaboration, contributed to building a consensus around the regime. At the same time, the idea is to reflect on the construction of the social memory of the period, in articulation with the silence and oblivion.
memory; dictatorship; silence; oblivion; consensus