Convincing both the far left and the far right that he was really on their side, or fucking 14-year-olds? Or both?
Of course it was, if Russia was in 1917.
Hector_St_Clare:
Morwen Peron did it better. Batista was overthrown eventually: Peron died in office, having successfully won back the presidency after 18 years of exile.
Also, I don’t think the Communists really believed Batista was one of them: they supported him because they were under Soviet discipline, which held that Cuba wasn’t ready for a revolution. The Montoneros really did believe that Peron was a man of the left, right up until his widow unleashed the death squads on them.
But Batista did implement some leftist policies in his first term as president-- he built TB clinics and encouraged alnd reform. It was only later than he became more of a tinpot.
That’s my main basis for saying that he also did that, although with a lot less success than Peron.
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(Personal anecdote)
Nine years ago when I was in Year 10 my history class went on a trip to the Sydney Jewish Museum as part of our unit on Genocide. I have a mild disability and I ended up walking around the museum with our teacher (because it meant I wouldn’t have to walk too much). Somehow she (the teacher) and I ended up talking about Eva and Juan Peron and she said that Eva Peron was a fascist. She said Juan was a fascist because of “the laws he passed.”
Now for the point of this debate:
Googling “eva peron fascist” turns up loads of sites which claim that Eva and Juan had a large numbered bank account in Switzerland where a percentage of donations to Eva’s charity were deposited and used to fund their lavish lifestyle and purchase her huge designer wardrobe and jewellery collection, also that Juan was an anti-Semite who allowed Nazis into the country and supported Hitler. The one about the Nazis is true and I know he supported Mussolini, but Hitler ?
Also I was under the impression that the Swiss bank account rumour was just that: a rumour.
But were the Perons fascists? What’s the evidence they were or weren’t? Personally I’m leaning towards “Eva wasn’t a fascist but Juan was”. Or at least he was a Mussolini sympathiser)
Being a fascist doesn’t necessarily make one a Nazi sympathizer. National Socialism was the German brand of fascism-loosely interpreted. When most people think of fascists, they erroneously consider fascists the party that put all of the Jews in the gas chambers, or else, use the word as a common label for people that they don’t like.
handsomeharry:
Being a fascist doesn’t necessarily make one a Nazi sympathizer. National Socialism was the German brand of fascism-loosely interpreted. When most people think of fascists, they erroneously consider fascists the party that put all of the Jews in the gas chambers, or else, use the word as a common label for people that they don’t like.
On the other side of the coin, a politician can also admire a fascist without being a follower of fascist philosophy.
handsomeharry:
Being a fascist doesn’t necessarily make one a Nazi sympathizer. National Socialism was the German brand of fascism-loosely interpreted. When most people think of fascists, they erroneously consider fascists the party that put all of the Jews in the gas chambers, or else, use the word as a common label for people that they don’t like.
A couple of European regimes generally described as fascist - Dollfuss in Austria and Metaxas in Greece- were in fact resolutely anti-Nazi, and went down unsuccessfully fighting the Nazi takeover.
That’s interesting- consider my ignorance fought! I didn’t even know about Dollfuss!