Chapter 956 Torn Brazil

Juan Peron has a famous saying: Do what Mussolini did, but don't make the mistakes Mussolini made.

In this time and space, he should not think that Mussolini, the new Caesar of Rome, has made any mistakes. This is probably why he is determined to be the South American Mussolini and is willing to go to war with Brazil for this.

From this famous saying of Peron in history, we can basically see his essence - he is a South American Mussolini, who is more advanced than the traditional "Caudillo" leaders in South America and knows to care about the lives of the working people, but fundamentally represents the interests of the bourgeoisie.

The reason why he later became the South American Hitler and raised the "half-red" flag was actually because of his wife Evita Peron, the world-famous Mrs. Peron.

Peron was a dictator who listened to his wife very much. Many of his policies and routes for social reform came from his second wife, Evita, who climbed up step by step from the bottom. His third wife Isabella simply became the vice president of Argentina, and became the president of Argentina after Perón's death... In history, Evita almost became the vice president. If she had not died young at the age of 33 due to some disease, the vice president and president of Argentina would have been in her pocket sooner or later.

However, Evita's status was not due to her beauty and Perón's unprincipled promotion. She was indeed a very inflammatory female politician who could turn herself into the spokesperson of the Argentine working people.

From a certain perspective, Perón is the Mussolini of South America, and Evita is the Hitler of South America - her line and inflammatory ability are close to Hitler. In addition to the two of them, South America also has a figure similar to Franco in this era, and he is the current Brazilian President Getulio Vargas.

Like Franco, Vargas was not elected to power. He took advantage of the "lieutenant faction" (Argentina had a colonel coup and Brazil had a lieutenant uprising) coup to come to power. However, he himself was not a warlord - Vargas was also a lieutenant in his early years, but he was not a figure of the lieutenant faction. When the lieutenant faction rose, he had already entered politics for more than ten years - but he was the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The reason why he is like Franco is mainly because his political and diplomatic lines are similar to Franco.

Both of them are dictators, neither of them practice democracy (Hitler was elected), both rely on the army (Mussolini also has the Fascist Party), both practice elite governance (Hitler and Mussolini represent the lower class to a certain extent), both follow independent economic nationalism (Franco's Spain is now forced to join the European Customs Union, but still practices state control at home), neither of them wants to participate in the world war, and has no interest in aggression and expansion.

Basically, Vargas and Franco are representatives of old-school elite politics who can do things. They are not on the same path as Nazis, fascism and GCism.

Because he relied on the army and pursued elite rule, but he was not a big military leader, and his political and economic lines conflicted with the interests of the great powers in Brazil.

Therefore, Vargas's ruling foundation in Brazil was not solid. In this respect, he could not compare with Franco who fought his way out of the bloody sea, and he lacked the prestige to lead Brazil to participate in the world war.

For him, the most ideal choice was to remain neutral between the United States and Germany, to benefit from both sides, and to balance the pro-American and pro-German (pro-German is mainly German and Italian Brazilians) to maintain domestic stability.

In history, although Vargas joined the Allied camp because of the prospect of the defeat of the Axis powers and sent an expeditionary force to Europe, he still did not win the support of the United States and the pro-American faction at home. In October 1945, just one month after the end of the World War, he was overthrown by a democratic military coup. In 1954 (he was elected president again in 1951), he committed suicide again on August 24... His fate was much worse than that of Peron, who listened to his wife. Peron himself was a military leader, and he won over the working people through land reform (Argentina's October land reform, forcibly distributed 93% of the land in the country) and increased wages and benefits. So the Americans can support the coup to overthrow him, but they dare not kill him, otherwise they will definitely cause an Argentine revolution.

In this time and space, the rule of Brazil's "Franco" Vargas was also in a precarious situation by February 1944.

If Vargas's regime cannot gain widespread support in a short period of time, it will face collapse!

However, this does not mean that some Peron-style "German fans" officers will launch a coup to overthrow Vargas... Because the situation in Brazil is completely different from that in Argentina. Argentina is a country where white people oppress white people, and "German fans" can incite the lower class to deprive the upper class.

Brazil is a country where white people oppress black people and Indo-European people. 3% of the people (all white) own two-thirds of the land in Brazil. The poor farmers (mostly Indians, blacks and Indo-Europeans) who make up 60% of the population lack land and can only become hired farmers or rent land.

Therefore, Argentina's "Nazi and Fascist Movement" can solve social contradictions, while Brazil's "Nazis and Fascists" (all white, of course) cannot deprive white people of their land and give it to people of color. This is too un-Nazi.

The Brazilian Nazis, who cannot solve Brazil's social contradictions, naturally cannot become a political movement with a broad social base like the German Nazis, the Argentine Nazis, and the Italian Fascists.

In Brazil, the lower class society is insulated from the Nazis, and it is the territory of the left.

If Vargas wants to maintain his rule now, he can only cooperate with the Left!

Only with the support of the left can Brazil join the Axis powers. Otherwise, the day Brazil joins the Axis, civil war will be raging everywhere.

"Hahaha, this is ridiculous!"

At the same time that Colonel Peron was a guest in Berchtesgaden, in the presidential palace in Rio de Janeiro, a guest from prison was talking to President Vargas.

This guest led the Weiguan faction uprising in the 1920s and conducted the legendary Prestus Column March (which took place after the failure of the Weiguan faction uprising. This long march moved to 13 states and traveled more than 25,000 kilometers. After 28 months, he finally ran out of ammunition and food and retreated into Bolivia) Luis Carlos Priestes, leader of the Brazilian Communist Party and chairman of the Brazilian National Liberation Union.

He led another armed uprising in eastern Brazil at the end of 1935. After the failure, he was arrested and imprisoned to this day. However, his popularity among the Brazilian bottom people and the left is growing day by day.

"President," Prestes, who was a little thin and unkempt but still looked unruly, looked at the agitated Vargas with contempt and ridicule, "you want us to join you. Government, don’t you think it’s ridiculous to support your government but at the same time be unwilling to carry out land reform?”

"Mr. Prestes!" Vargas shook his head repeatedly, "Now the motherland is in crisis. Argentina's Vice President Peron is in Germany. He is very likely to get the support of Germany. You know what this means to Brazil... …”

"Wait, wait," Prestes waved his hand, interrupting Vargas, "Perón is going to defect to Germany, and you are also ready to defect to Germany, right?"

"Yes, it's necessary," Vargas said. He has actually made up his mind to enter the shaft!

"Peron has always claimed that he would raise wages and distribute land to the undressed men. What are you going to do?"

"No, no, no... This is not in line with Brazil's national conditions." Vargas looked embarrassed and said in his heart: If Brazil can divide land and carry out land reform, why should I ask you to do it? I can’t change myself?

"Same as joining the Axis powers, Argentina can carry out land reform, why can't Brazil?" Prestes asked.

"The national conditions are different..." Vargas looked a little angry, "You know this is impossible! Brazil is not Argentina. The two countries are completely different. Even the Nazis in Brazil have never made such ridiculous suggestions."

"Well, send me back to prison." The leader of the Brazilian Communist Party shrugged, "Or... you can also order me to be shot!"

It is also impossible to shoot him. Priestes is the recognized leader of the Lieutenant faction and has many sympathizers in the army (the radical faction of the Argentine army is the Right Pai, and the radical faction of the Brazilian army is the Left Pai). Vargas How dare you shoot him?

"Mr. Prestes, do you want to watch your beloved Brazilian motherland being torn apart because of the struggle between the United States and Germany?" Vargas also wanted to make a final effort, "Now there is only unity, left Only by uniting the Pai, the centrists and the right can Brazil be saved from disaster.”

"Okay, unity, right?" Prestes smiled sarcastically, "No problem. Although I am a communist, I am not loyal to Moscow. As long as you can allocate two-thirds of Brazil's arable land By giving landless and landless farmers, Brazil can be united. This is also the purpose of my leadership of the revolution and the Long March.

If you can't do it... Then I would like to ask you, is Brazil a country loved by the 60% of poor people who have little land and live in dire straits? Don’t those 3% of big landowners and big capitalists have the obligation to love the country? Can't they contribute their land out of patriotism? "

"This is impossible!" Vargas patted the table and told the truth, "Because Brazil has never been a whole, it is divided. The upper-class white people and the lower-class Indo-European mixed race, Indians, and blacks have never been a whole. Not my compatriots! If I want to distribute the land of the superior white people to the inferior people, the country will still be divided!”