Mussolini was the greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his errors.
—Juan Peron, Argentina, 1943-1979: The National Revolution and Resistance" by Donald C. Hodges.
Juan Peron was the President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and then from 1973 to 1974.
Early life
First Presidency of Argentina
Removal from Power
Second Presidency of Argentina
Death
Private Life
Peronism
Italian Fascism led 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 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
—Juan Peron, Los mitos de la historia argentina 4 by Pigna Felipe (page 28).
