# @itsaihistory on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Da9GYRgp3zV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67989947-itsaihistory-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-19T00:41:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Parker Gordon (@itsaihistory) — https://gondola.cc/itsaihistory

## Caption

🇦🇷 Argentina: A Century of Collapse | Part II

What you’re seeing:
Perón returns after eighteen years in exile, but Argentina’s political violence deepens. A military dictatorship follows, democracy returns, and money begins to lose its meaning.

Part II follows Perón’s exile and return, the Ezeiza massacre, the 1976 coup, los desaparecidos, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, the 1978 World Cup, the Malvinas/Falklands War, and the beginning of hyperinflation.

Why did this happen?
Perón built an enduring mass movement, but his rule was also marked by concentrated power, political repression, state patronage, and corruption. After his removal, military and civilian governments repeatedly failed to establish lasting authority.

His return did not resolve the conflict. At Ezeiza, right-wing Peronists opened fire on left-wing Peronists. Perón died in 1974, leaving Isabel to govern a country sliding into violence.

The 1976 junta used systematic abduction, torture, and disappearance to eliminate its opponents. It used the 1978 World Cup to project order, then invaded the Malvinas/Falkland Islands in 1982.

The seventy-four-day war, including the sinking of the General Belgrano, ended in defeat. Democracy returned in 1983, but by 1989 inflation was destroying the value of money almost as quickly as people could earn it.

Notes:
The visuals combine restored and colorized archival photographs with AI-generated historical recreations.

Archival sources:
Ceaușescu–Perón meeting, Olivos, March 6, 1974: Romanian Communism Online Photo Collection, digital ID 37620X5X16 (Fototeca online a comunismului românesc), ANIC, unknown author. Date of access: (18.07.2026).
HMS Hermes with HMS Broadsword: UK Ministry of Defence photograph, licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Additional archival images: Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina), public domain; Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

🎥 All visuals are original AI-assisted recreations produced by @itsaihistory for educational and documentary purposes.

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