Eva Evita Peron in Europe- Part of a Biography Series
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at least she was pretty
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@DreamstateEmergency Its unhealthy for a democracy when the wife of the elected president threatens political opponents or people she don t like in public speaches..her dislike runned deep..from society ladies to journalists to scientists..everybody that didn t support her peronal cult or willingly gave her money was branded
'ennemy of the working poor","Oligarchs","parasites".
.she even threatend the US ambassador.Her position went to her head and stayed there. Then she had her "gang" also. -
@DreamstateEmergency Hovewer she(Evita) was no Stalin nor Polpott or Saddam Hussein but she had iron fists, unsuitable for an elected president and his wife and also a advanced country that Argentina was/is..unfortunately with social differences.
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@DreamstateEmergency Dictators come in many forms and shape...that you give dirt poor and illiterate people shoes and toys doesn t mean that you are kind. When you silence newspappers and throws critics in jail with prostitutes, then nobody is safe...I find many similarities between Evita and Immelda Marcos..same adoration,same hunger for luxury,same court of cronies and same embazzlement of state funds.The differnce is that Evita played father Christmas, as long as it lasted.
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@DreamstateEmergency "She had her reasons" you say..mind you her victims where not exclusively so called rich people, also small shop-owners whos shops she raided,didn t pay her bills and closed them down if they protested.Transnational companies left,they have no problems,local owners and intellectuals had if they displeased her..she hid her totalitarian way behind "cinderella,Florence Nightingale"-facade. The military and the Oligarchs hate for her was personal..and she wrecked the economy.
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I agree with most of what you said, if she closed down newspapers and confiscated businesses and property no doubt that she had her reasons. As far as branding people who criticized her ways as parasites i have no doubt that she called the pawns and transnational companies that, as far as being totalitarian their are so many governments today that are much worse than what you are trying to imply she was, if she was so totalitarian the military would not have hated her so much.
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@EnzFab73 Exactly, nobody really knew her but her behaviour was n t nice if you didn t agree with her..people who come from humble beginnings usually hate to be reminded from where they came and they usually hate people from their past who knew them before the transformation into stardom..unfortunately very human.
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@debzeppeliniv Her husband, Juan Domingo certainly had pro-nazi views..I don t think she had..she was a mix of mother Theresa and Al Capone, with a little Robin Hood and Rockefeller thrown in..
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@DreamstateEmergency You can be a dictator and have good times no? Evita was no Stalin nor Hitler,certainly but she was very ugly against those that opposed her, closing down newspapper,confiscating businesses and property,blackmailing businesses into giving her fundation in blanco checks of vast amount of money..Evita branded people who critized her ways as "parasites and oligarchs". Her massmeetings are very totalitarian in their form and so is her speaches.."my shirtless ones,my people"
@storm915 There have been several Peronists administrations in Argentina since Eva's demise and the current female president adores Eva Peron. This women is more alive today in the minds of her people than you think.. I should know, I spoke to many of them when I went to Chile back in Feb and the passion is still there. No matter how much you deny it, this woman will not go away. Cheers.
EnzFab73 1 year ago 8
Wow... this is a VERY subjective documentary I see...
kooritsuki 1 year ago 4