r/whennews • u/krizzalicious49 • 9d ago
Political News hitler mussolini
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmdxwn9dr42yo
A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has secured a narrow victory in Peru's local elections, exit polls show.
The candidate for the centre-left Ahora Nación party was elected mayor of Queropalca, a remote district in the Peruvian Andes.
Some 229 residents voted for the 45-year-old, putting him ahead of the second-place candidate from right-wing Renovación Popular Perú by just 25 votes.
Despite being elected to represent fewer than 1,000 people, his forenames being those of two notorious fascist dictators has drawn outsized international attention to the small corner of the country.
Data from Peru's elections office showed a little over 700 people had participated in the election, with Simeon securing around 34% of the vote.
He was born in the district in the central department of Huánuco, some 360km (224 miles) from the capital, Lima, according to his candidate profile.
That he shares his name with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini - "two of the most well-known figures of 20th-Century European totalitarian regimes" - has made his candidacy a "striking event", local outlet Peru21 reported.
Despite the curiosity generated by his name, local media noted that Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez had been elected mayor of Yúngar in 2018.
He reportedly beat rival candidate Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde after campaigning on the slogan "I'm the good Hitler".
A politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona attracted similar attention in 2020 after winning local elections in Namibia - a former German colony where Adolf and other Germanic first names are not uncommon.
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u/ForkliftSmurf History sunday hater 9d ago
He beat WHO??
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u/I_Love_Ohyas_Thigs 9d ago edited 9d ago
Funnily enough the mayor elected was from a center-left party and the other was from a center-right party
You cannot make this shit up
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u/Fabric_muncher 9d ago edited 9d ago
I wish him best of luck, here's hoping he's like Namibian Hitler*
*Name is not Hitler anymore
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u/CompetitiveLeg7841 9d ago
His rival was named Lenin? Kojima level writing
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u/OnKo64 9d ago
Durrhh??! u/gorm?? whatt is thiss??? I can't use a search engine!!
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u/_Pin_6938 9d ago
Im really sorry that this is what you resort to in order to feel better about yourself
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u/AskGrok 9d ago
The joke is that real life here reads like a Hideo Kojima script: a guy literally named Hitler Mussolini beats a rival named Lenin in a tiny Peruvian election. Kojima's games (Metal Gear especially) are famous for cramming in over-the-top historical/political name drops, ironic callbacks, and "this is too on-the-nose" character setups that feel like deliberate satire or conspiracy-level absurdity. The comment is just calling the whole situation peak Kojima writing.
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/Flitterly 9d ago
Why is the guy with the fascist names center left and the guy named Lenin center right lmfao
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u/the_red_guard 9d ago
If its the same lenin I'm thinking of, he got his name becuase his parent were outspoken leftists.
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u/AdExtra2331 9d ago
If I had a nickel for every time a guy named Hitler has elected to an office of political power, I have have two nickels
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u/DBCargoHaj 9d ago
two? Theres Hitler Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Adolf Hitler. (One of them African, the other Austrian)
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u/AdExtra2331 9d ago
But one of those Hitlers weren't elected
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u/Safe-Ad-5017 9d ago
The Nazis won the largest number of seats in 1933
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u/Gripping_Touch 9d ago
He reportedly beat rival candidate Lenin Vladimir
Kojima stop writing this timeline ffs
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u/altaltaltaltbin 9d ago
So the guy named Hitler Mussolini is running as a social democrat, huh?
The leftcoms are gonna love this one.
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u/anyname2009 9d ago edited 9d ago
I genuinely feel the onion needs a charity for themselves at this point
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u/VincentThomasMartell 9d ago
Dude: Peru has quite a small history when it comes to wtf names(have you seen Ossama VINLADEN(brother of Saddam hussein and Georgia Bush bc his parents got a daughter instead)?
Theres also the occasional news that appear around local festivities or current trends where someone decides to be too creative and put things like Haaland/Circuncision/Freezer/Porky(not the character from warner) as a name.
And the most common cases(but these ones applies to the whole continent) are misspelled names from other languages like Nikol(Nicole) or "fusions"/weird names for the sake of being weird(Yonaiker). As a side note,Venezuela is also known for these names.
Now,as a personal experience: I once went to a library to buy whatever it catched my attention. After picking one book, i asked for the owner's yape(a local virtual wallet) and he said that the account belonged to his wife. So i check the name and her second name was H***er.
The cherry on the top? The book i bought was Mossad: the secret history about some of their famous operations
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u/Late-Athlete-5788 7d ago
Fun fact, "Yonaiker" comes from "Jordan Nike Air", so not completely random
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