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Desmalvinización
Argentine social concept / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Desmalvinización (Spanish, translated as de-malvinisation) is a concept in Argentine society and politics that appeared after the defeat of the Falklands War in 1982, whereby the media refrained from mentioning the war and returning soldiers were almost ignored. It contrasts with the nationalistic, anti-British fervour that proceeded and accompanied the war, encouraged by the military junta that ruled Argentina at the time.[1]
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The des-malvinisation rhetoric stripped every heroic act committed on the islands and the conflict was taken as a "product of the dictatorship". As a consequence, Argentine nationalism rapidly vanished after the war and taken as shameful. Those who consider the war as a patriotic cause or as an anticolonial struggle, were seen as dictatorship apologists.
It gets its name from the Spanish denomination for the islands: Islas Malvinas.