Malbec, you are at least partially right about the German scientists. What can I say? But of course, that was part of my point - no country is lilly-white. Everyone talks about how evil the US is, and everyone knows that the US imported Nazi scientists to help advance technologically.
Of course, the US lost an unbelievable number of humans fighting against those bastards. You could at least make a case that the US and other countries who fought that war against those evil shits deserved to benefit in some manner. Most of the people who were granted asylum in the US were not behind the mass murders of millions of human beings.
But of course, you gloss (as does Orwellian) completely over the fact that the brave and concerned Argentines didn't declare war on Germany until the war was over. They didn't fight against the evil that was attempting to spread across Europe. In fact, they were quite friendly with both Italy and Germany during the war.
So Peron, who took power after WWII, was a great admirer of Mussolini, ensured that Argentina gave refuge to far more FUGITIVE ex-nazis than any other country in the world.
BTW - Werner Von Braum was not "responsible" for the deaths of thousands of POWs and jews in concentration camps. In fact, there are many eyewitness accounts of Von Braum's disgust at what was being done, while there are only a very few that said he was an accomplice. He, like most scientists, was forced to work for the State. In fact, he was arrested at one point because he made comments about wanting to build a space ship as opposed to building war rockets.
In Hitler's own words (taken form his diary on May 13, 1944):
"In the matter concerning B. I will guarantee you that he will be exempt from persecution as long as he is indispensable for you, in spite of the difficult general consequences this will have."
Yeah, that sounds like Von Braum was behind the Nazis 100%.
Some would say people in situations like that should have just refused to cooperate and taken death. I say that one never knows how one would act in these situations until one is actually in them. I don't know that I could just calmly accept death for myself, even if it meant the death of others at someone else's hands. I would hope that I would have the courage not to pull the trigger myself.
But even taking into account that Argentina was looking to profit from the end of a war that it sat out, being friendly with those who started the war to begin with, somehow more than scientists were imported into Argentina - en masse. Including some pretty notorious war criminals like Eichmann and Mengele. We're talking many hundreds or even thousands of ex-Nazis, many of whom were the people who had ordered much of the really bad crap that went down during the war.
So Malbec, again, no comments on the attrocities committed by Argentina? My stated point below was not to say that the US was better than anyone else, but that everyone else is about the same, in different ways.
And Orwelian, sorry, I don't accept your arguments. Mussolini was fascist. He may have belonged to a socialist party at some point, but he was fascist. And of course, Peron, having come up through the military and participated in the coup against the civilian government, himself took power and everything was peaches and roses. He never once tried to control industry and bully people into doing what he wanted done.
Also, I never said that Argentina was fascist, I said there were fascist elements. Considering that the Kirchners literally buy the votes of the poor and WOULD be dictators if they could manage it, try to bully farmers and industry and banks into doing what they want, saying that Argentina is more democratic than the US is a typical statement from you. Considering that they employ elements like D'Elia to intimidate and get their way quite openly, they have many of the trappings of fascists - they just aren't as successful as Peron was. IMO, your defense of the Kirchners is not very well based in fact at all. Of course, how can it be anyway, when you see the world through conspiracy blinders.