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The previous talk page was rather lengthy, so I took the liberty of archiving it. I don't know if I did a very good job with the archiving. If someone else can do a better job, please do.
That aside, I placed a POV tag at the top of this page. I placed it there because while it is true that Juan Peron allowed Nazi criminals into Argentina, it is also true that he himself was not anti-Semitic, he did not harass the Jewish community but allowed it to flourish, and that one of his allies in Peronism was José Ber Gelbard, a Jewish man. And Peronism itself contained no anti-Semitism. There were no concentration camps in Argentina.
When told without nuance, the recounting of Juan Peron's allowance of Nazi criminals into the country can paint an unfair portrait of him. As previous editors have mentioned, Germany has deep roots in Argentina that predate Juan Peron and also post-date Juan Peron. Also, it was not only Juan Peron who granted political asylum to Nazi refugees. As is mentioned in the article for ratlines, Nazi criminals made their way into many countries, perhaps the United States and Canada. (It should also be noted that there was an American Nazi Party in the United States and that in the beginning the United States government had also supported Hitler and Mussolini. And apparently there is evidence that Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current president of the United States, collaborated with the Nazis as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#Nazi_collaboration .) Also, while it is true that Juan Peron had sided with the Axis powers, it is also true that when Argentina did enter the war, they declared war against Germany.
When presented without nuance and historical context, the fact that Juan Peron allowed Nazi criminals into the country can make it appear that he himself agreed with what happened in the Holocaust and he himself was an anti-Semite. And then this is used as leverage in the anti-Peronist argument that Peron himself was a monster. But the nuanced truth is that while Juan Peron did allow Nazis into the country and had sided with the Axis, he himself was not anti-Semitic and did not slaughter Jewish people. Juan Peron's Argentina established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1948.
If this is to truly be a neutral article, then it must contains both sides of the story. Until then, this is a POV article giving an inaccurate and unfair portrait of Juan Peron. My suggestion is that a section called "Juan Peron and the Jewish population of Argentina" be created to balance out the section about the ratlines.
Thank you.
Argentine lad ( talk) 21:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I have replaced the paragraphs in their entirety save for the picture of Eva Peron (despite the fact that it is perhaps not that outrageous to think that the man's wife and closest political partner would be shown on his article). You had no right to remove what you removed. And you have no right to say that the works of Joseph Page and Tomas Eloy Martinez [1] do not deserve to be on this page. Martinez is director of Latin American studies at Rutger's University. Page's biography of Juan Peron [2] is a major work and a former best seller.
The reason it is necessary to have a section like this on Juan Peron's page is because in the English speaking world people have a misperception of him as being a Nazi, and this is enhanced by there being an entire section about him allowing Nazis into Argentina. The argument could very easily be made that this is a minor aspect of his career and legacy and deserves perhaps a sentence or two in his biography, not an entire section. And I notice that the Spanish language section has absolutely NO reference to him allowing Nazis into the country. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Domingo_Per%C3%B3n So, it becomes apparent that this is an aspect of his story with a cultural focus. In the English speaking world it seems to be a big deal that he allowed Nazis into the country. In Latin America, in the Spanish speaking world, it is such a non-issue that it isn't even mentioned in his biography.
So, I ask, why is this section necessary about allowing Nazis into Argentina? If you believe that section is necessary, then why is it not necessary to have another section that puts the whole situation into a larger context, explaining that German culture is deep in Argentina and pre-dates Juan Peron?
But forgive me for thinking that it was the goal of a Wikipedia article on Juan Peron to be an article about Juan Peron. Argentine lad ( talk) 09:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
-- Argentine lad ( talk) 09:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Please note that even though I think the section is unnecessary I did not deleted it. I made edits and I explained why. Please refer to my explanations in particular. Bakersville ( talk) 11:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Going through the archived comments of the talk page (archived by Argentine Lad). I've noticed that all the edits by Argentine Lad are copied from a previous discussion in talk from another editor (If you are the same editor under different name please confirm). This may explain the out of context quoting. Please comply with WP:CITE#SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT talk 13:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
That's not true. I have added some new material, and I have personally verified that those quotes are indeed where they say they are. I have violate no rule on Wikipedia.
I have already mentioned that the points I raise were brought up by other editors on this talk page. One editor mentioned that when talking about Nazism in Argentina we are talking about Argentina and not Juan Peron. Other editors mentioned that Peron was not fascist. Another editor supplied a list of quotes backing this up. And I added some information I found on my own, such as the information from the Jewish Virtual Library. I am doing what other editors have not done: combine the comments of these editors into contributions on the article discussion page, DARING to go against the subtext of this article which seems to be hell bent on the idea that Peron was a fascist and a nazi.
The comments are not out of context, and they are entirely cited. I have indeed complied with WP:CITE#SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT. Most of the books quoted here are available on Amazon.com and you can go and search within the book contents to see that the quotes are there. Others I have checked at the library. Still others are articles available online, such as the references from Jewish Virtual Library. These references are not out of context and they are cited.
I understand that many of you do not like Juan Peron. But you are letting your anti-Peron bias masquerade as neutral research, which isn't fair. Most serious biographers of Juan Peron would argue that his participation in the ratlines was a minor aspect of his career and doesn't even deserve a great mention in his biography. It deserves mention on the article about the ratlines. But if it is going to be here, then it is only fair that a counter balance be present to show both sides. Please comply with Wikipedia's rules about neutrality.
If you remove the information I have supplied in this article you are doing so simply because it disputes your own personal view of Juan Peron, as it has become apparent that many of you want him portrayed as an evil nazi who helped murder millions of Jews in the holocaust. That's your personal interpretation. It is not historical fact. You have no right to remove the information I've supplied. Your personal bias does not give you mandate. Argentine lad ( talk) 21:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
You have no right to delete that information. The theory that he allowed Nazis into the country in an attempt to gain access to advanced technology developed during the war is advanced by Tomas Eloy Martinez, an internationally recognized literary figure, and the director of Latin American studies at Rutgers University. His statement was published in Time Magazine. This is a reputable authority published in perhaps THE most notable political magazine in the United States. It is not your judgment to make whether his assertion is illogical. As a Wikipedia editor it is your place to decide whether it is a correctly cited reference made by a notable source in a third-party context. It is.
About Page's reference to Peron as a pacifist, yes, that's his opinion. But it is the opinion of a man who is considered a scholar on the topic and who wrote a book about the topic. It is not the opinion of a gas station employee. It is the opinion of a notable authority and it is correctly cited. You simply do not agree with what he has written. In other words, your POV clashes with his POV. However, Page is the notable and verifiable authority in this context. Not you. Sorry. (Wikipedia does not disallow point-of-view statements so long as they are clarified and cited as the statements of notable authorities. Points of view are everywhere.)
I am going to revert your most recent revision because you continue to remove things from the article based solely on your own personal dislike of the material. This is what is called vandalism. Argentine lad ( talk) 00:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I didn't claim in the article itself that people have accused him of anti-Semitism. I said on this talk page that people have accused him of Nazism from the start. These are excellent sources, by the way, because they come straight out of works by biographers and from scholars. Argentine lad ( talk) 05:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
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IMO, this entire introduction section to this article should be scrapped. It does not read like an encyclopedia article at all. It is written in the style of a biography, which is quite different. It is filled to the gills with original research & synthesis & unsourced opinions. For example
"Each of the works used to evaluate Juan Perón's failures in stabilizing the Argentine economy with the five-year plans is vital to understanding the truth behind the common historical judgments." -- synthesis by the writer
"Mark Falcoff's, "Prologue to Perón: Argentina in Depression and War" is a secondary source...Because of the many writers contributing to the work but still presenting a similar viewpoint, the validity of the events discussed in the work is without question." -- here the writer is just boldly making an absolute statement about a book that isn't even the subject of the article.
I have no particular beefs about the correctness of what the writer put in, but it reads like he simply copied large sections of a Peron biography (or a book on Argentine history), and not a very good one at that. Pmw2cc ( talk) 18:51, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Stojadinovich was not the prime minister of occupied yugoslavia. He was dismissed in 1939 before the WW2 begun. 1941, before the occupation of yugoslavia, he was deported to England. He later died in Argentina. See Milan Stoyadinovich page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.240.6.134 ( talk) 01:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I am going to have to fail this article GA nomination. Here is a list of the major issues I found with this article:
This is just a quick list of the issues I found with the article. I did not check the article for prose, NPOV, completeness or images. I would suggest that the nominator complete some significant work on the article (at the moment, I believe they have made a total of one edit to the article) before renominating it. Please let me know if you have any questions. Dana boomer ( talk) 21:01, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Know,Col.Peron was Pro Axis but was his regeime considerd during World War 2 as Facist?Thanks! Andreisme ( talk) 21:28, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Braden did accuse him of being pro-nazism, but that was in the context of an electoral campaign. It was meant as a political way to discredit Perón, just like the rutinary straw man arguments that appear during most electoral campaigns anywhere. Nazism was just the typical epithet to discredit people by that time, if those elections would have taken place a few years later, surely Braden would have accused Peron of communist. MBelgrano ( talk) 01:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
We saw American accusation against Peron, first as Pro-Nazi and later as Pro-Communist, as a prove that He was neither. Both accusation was made at the insistence of many US business interest who lost the monopoly on the Argentinian market with Peron Social and Economic reform. As the article said, US didn't want an economically sovereign Argentina. He welcome both the former Nazis and the jewish refugees because he's neutral, and he treated both equally. Of course for US peoples who were conditioned since birth to only thinking in one direction, this seems strange and unthinkable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.142.139.54 ( talk) 08:21, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
This site: [ Argentina] has an article about Peron's policies. Agre22 ( talk) 14:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)agre22
It is usually stated by some authors that Perón admired Mussolini, but I have an idea of something useful to clarify that topic: what did Perón himself said about it? This is the original quote, in spanish (english translation follows)
“ | El fascismo italiano llevó a las organizaciones populares a una participación efectiva en la vida nacional, de la cual había estado siempre apartado el pueblo. Hasta la ascensión de Mussolini al poder, la nación iba por un lado y el trabajador por otro, y éste último no tenía ninguna participación en aquella. [...] En alemania ocurría exactamente el mismo fenómeno, o sea, un estado organizado para una comunidad perfectamente ordenada, para un pueblo perfectamente ordenado también; una comunidad donde el estado era el instrumento de ese pueblo, cuya representación era, a mi juicio, efectiva. Pensé que tal debería ser la forma política del futuro, es decir, la verdadera democracia popular, la verdadera democracia social. | ” |
This was part of the analysis that Perón made of Europe during his trip by 1940. It can be found at the book "Los mitos de la historia argentina" by Felipe Pigna, Buenos Aires, 2008, ISBN 978-950-49-1980-3. This book cites as source "Yo, Juan Domingo Perón, relato autobiográfico", Madrid, Ed. Planeta, 1976. This is a translation with google (with possible mistakes fixed)
“ | Italian Fascism led to popular organizations to an effective participation in national life, which had always been denied to the people. Before Mussolini's rise to power, the nation was on the one hand and the worker on the other, and the latter had no involvement in the former. [...] In Germany happened exactly the same phenomenon, meaning, an organized state for a perfectly ordered community, for a perfectly ordered population as well: a community where the state was the tool of the nation, whose representation was, under my view, effective. I thought that this should be the future political form, meaning, the true people's democracy, the true social democracy. | ” |
According to Pigna, no historian that has deeply studied Perón would label him as fascist. He says that those quotes, product of circunstantial admiration, do not imply a clear fascist orientation. Instead, Perón would have been a pragmatic, taking useful elements from all modern ideologies of the time: this included fascism, but also the "New deal" policies of Roosevelt, "national defense" principles, social views from religion, and even some socialism principles. MBelgrano ( talk) 02:10, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
File:Coronel J. D. Peron 1945-09-18 (1-3).ogg, which is used in this article, has been listed as a possible copyright violation. See Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2010 April 30#File:Coronel J. D. Peron 1945-09-18 (1-3).ogg and join the discussion on whenever the image is free or not. MBelgrano ( talk) 21:01, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello: I've deleted a couple of paragraph at the intro to the "Perón and Fascism" section for two reasons. First, they are written with such poor English grammar that they are unreadable and irreparable. Second, despite the prolific citations, they are clearly non-neutral defenses of Perón by a partisan. I am not a partisan and I have no interest in this topic except to keep it neutral.
If someone wishes to retain these paragraphs, please clean them up. Kgustaf ( talk) 08:48, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
I have read the whole article. And i Have to say that there´s no way I´m gonna let pass that thing i quote:
-"Arrested four days later, he was released due to mass demonstrations organized by the CGT; October 17 was later commemorated as Loyalty Day. His paramour, Eva Duarte, became hugely popular after helping the CGT organize the demonstration; known as "Evita", she helped Perón gain support with labor and women's groups. She and Perón were married on October 22.[5]"-
October 17th March WAS NOT organized by C.G.T. That is outrageous. Never sustained. And I need not to quote Cipriano Reyes and his book "I made October 17th". Simply to mention that CGT raised a strike for October 18th, WITHOUT EVEN MENTION Perón´s name....
And Evita´s involvement was spread out by Peron himself as a treasonery "pay-back" to Cipriano Reyes and his lack of "loyalty" (he did not surrender to the master).
Regards, despite the way... LumpenProletariat
Sources: "History of Peronism" by Hugo Gambini and "Military Power and Political Society in Argentine" by Alain Rouquié. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.2.15.207 ( talk) 05:39, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
There are a number of inaccuracies in this section (Nazi war criminals). Heinrich Himmler is listed as having been an envoy to Switzerland in 1948, that would be difficult since he committed suicide in 1945. The whole section should be reviewed, much of it is incorrect or conspiracy theory puffery. ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.191.65.92 ( talk) 14:58, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
According to a recent investigation, Perón had no Tehuelche blood, and was in fact descended from Spanish Conquistadors: [5]. I believe the article should reflect this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.19.93.182 ( talk) 08:03, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
I have no idea if Peron actually received the Grand Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. But I do believe that it should not be included as a category to which Peron belongs unless it can be properly cited. I also believe that the Peron article on the German wikipedia is not a reputable source since it provides no citation for the award; moreover the entire German language page for Person has been tagged as not including adequate references. Userfriendly ( talk) 00:39, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
The article says concretely that Libertad Lamarque was Exiled over a conflict with Eva Peron, yet this seems like more of a speculation and it should be expressed that way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.136.76.138 ( talk) 07:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
The photo in the section "Childhood and youth" look awful there, i suggest take it away — Preceding unsigned comment added by Il giovane bello 73 ( talk • contribs) 02:47, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
Nothing in this whole article about his death? Really? Just goes from meetings with Pinochet to talking about where he was buried. This seems like an important detail. Kronos o ( talk) 00:47, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Juan Perón's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "economist":
Reference named "britannica":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:52, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Davide King, just a comment to this. I think there is a significant classification of Peron as fascist, but several of the scholars are careful to add clarification that there are unique aspects as well. The main problem people have seem to be how to treat this difference, since its a mixture of fascism, populism and socialism, so I've been careful to state its a branch (derivative) of fascism. It appears to be a case of false balance in this article, the majority of sources are stating Peron and Peronism as a type of fascism, but unique.
Federico Finchelstein states he considers the difference that after 1945, “populism is fascism adapted to democracy”, but that seems like an oversimplification, as populists vary greatly. https://s-usih.org/2020/05/frederico-finchelstein-fascism-and-populism/
Felipe Pigna should probably not be put too much emphasis on, as he is more of a comedian than a scholar.
James Brennan and Paul Hayes are the only non-Argentinian references used in the article, and they are both unison that Peron adopted a form of fascism. Paul Lewis wrote about this, and mentions a range of additional scholars with this classification, naming 8 scholars in the first page; https://www.jstor.org/stable/2130025 You also have Eldon Kenworthy; https://www.jstor.org/stable/421344
You could also include Emilio Ocampo: https://ucema.edu.ar/publicaciones/download/documentos/732.pdf "it is clearly populism (the archetype according to some), it is not exactly fascism but exhibits many of its key characteristics, it is not socialism but relies on a class warfare rhetoric and advocates income and wealth redistribution"
So yes, its not a stereotypical fascist ideology, its unique, but there are more than enough sources including fascism one way or another, either to discuss if it is, or in what ways its different from stereotypical fascism. The categories are for essential—defining—characteristics of a topic, and Peron/Peronism is a significant topic within fascist social studies, so it makes more sense to include the category, rather than exclude it. The content of the article will make these clarifications. Pedantic Aristotle ( talk) 02:27, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
The frase "praised their efforts to eliminate poverty and to dignify labour" adds nothing, as all politicians try to eliminate poverty. 2800:810:46C:2185:2C0E:172E:E33D:6DC8 ( talk) 16:28, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
"The meat-packers' union leader, Cipriano Reyes, turned against Perón when he replaced the Labour Party with the Peronist Party in 1947. Organizing a strike in protest, Reyes was arrested on the charge of plotting against the lives of the president and first lady, though the allegations were never substantiated."
Some kind of citation is needed. I found this article which seems to indicate that he'd been strung along by the police to participate in some kind of coup. Not sure if this counts as entrapment or not, but it should probably be mentioned regardless. Diojer ( talk) 01:26, 28 January 2024 (UTC)