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Originally Posted by Strengthandhonour
Peron certainly respected fascism and never dared to hide his respect and appreciation for Mussolini, but I don't think Peron was a fascist. There was some parallels between fascism, such as a strong centralized government and freedom from foreign influences ... people often mistake that just because Peron gave refuge to many individuals from the third reich that he was some sort of nazi.
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He respected and admired much of Musolinni's policy but I don't think he was really a Nazi.
As strengthandhonour said, he gave refuge to many nazis not because of nazism but because we wanted argentina to become a performing country in HIgh Tech; he was interested in German technology and Know-How.
He gave refugeto Richter who was responsible for the Third Reich atomic bomb program and Argentina had her own nuclear weapon as early as 1947. Today is even a very performing country in atomic energy and has been exporting for the last 30 years atomic technlogy abroad and in 2000 sold a nuclear reactor to Australia.
But that's not the point here.
He got also german instructors for the army Intelligence services.
Peronism is IMO nothing but another expression of argentine nationalism; before Peron all rail way, gas companies and other were ran by foreign companies. He got them all nationalized so that vital communications and ressources would be controlled by national entities and capital...but all his efforts were demolished by his self-claimed successor Menem and his suspectious ultra-liberalism who sold every national company to foreign industrial groups under doubtfull conditions.