And sorry if this offends you (not meant sarcastically, I actually mean I'm sorry if it offends you) but Eva "should have had her brains bashed out at birth"? I'm learning about Communist Russia in school Modern History right now, and Stalin was, *in my opinion at least*, much worse than both of the Perons. My opinion is that if anyone, any political leader should have had their brains bashed out at birth, they are Hitler (not trying to stir up debate about Nazism, just saying) and Stalin. Juan Peron's regime was repressive (the cult of personality, the secret police that you mentioned), as Che says in "The Lady's Got Potential" in the musical, he "saw Mussolini's rise from the very front row", and passed fascist laws although he was elected democratically. BTW I didn't learn this in school and haven't done much research on it, so I am not an expert, but my opinion of Eva is that she is one of those historical figures that no-one seems to have a balanced opinion about. No-one ever says "She was human- she was both good and bad." Instead it's,"She was a saint- how dare you have a different opinion of her!" or "She completely ruined her entire country! How can you think she did anything good during her adult life while she was in politics?" BTW, this is my opinion, but I don't think this song glorifies her at all. The whole musical portrays her as this callous, power-hungry "woman with the whip". She was a significant part of the repressive Peronist regime, but she was human.