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62. Exactly. Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, and Latin America all stopped short of doing just that

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 11:06 PM

Dec 17

In some cases, prosecuting the top brass from their former fascist regimes and some of the most brazen cases - but not the fascist judiciary figures, yes-men and such.

In many cases, what resulted is that within a generation or so, these same miscreants (or, more often, their children) would come back to either interfere with their hard-gain democracies...

or - like in Argentina - basically re-establish the same dictatorship but under a "democratic" guise (complete with show trials, etc.).

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Exactly. Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, and Latin America all stopped short of doing just that peppertree Dec 17 #62