Talk:Great Depression in Latin America

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19 October 2008 Discussion

Getúlio Vargas wasn't a fascist, he was a patriot. There was no "black or brown" shirts, there was no racism, there was no corporativism. People should know the difference.

There was a movement that could be called fascist although without racism, the "integralists". He put many of them in jail. Yeah, well, he was no democrat, granted. But he started the industrialization of Brazil. Without him we would be only a coffe (or soybean) plantation to this date. Prof.Maque (talk) 22:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention that he helped to defeat fascism. The Germans didn't sink Brazilian ships in the Atlantic before we entered the war just by mistake. Getúlio allowed the U.S. to build a base in the northeast of the country witch was essential to the airplanes that didn't had the autonomy to cross the Atlantic to North Africa from the U.S. Some people say that the Americans did threat invasion if he wouldn't allow that. Well I would just say that this people are bad character judges, or worse. Prof.Maque (talk) 22:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A documented historical fact: The German ambassador in Brazil before the war wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler stating that Getúlio Vargas was an enemy of the ideology of the Third Reich.Prof.Maque (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]