Desmalvinización

Desmalvinización (Spanish, translated as dismalvinisation) is a concept and phenomenon in Argentine society and politics that emerged after the defeat of the Falklands War in 1982 and the early years of the return to democracy.

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] When the soldiers returned, they were almost ignored by society, being regarded by the collective imagination as mere "war kids" and victims of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentine during that time.

The dismalvinisation rhetoric stripped away every heroic and patriotic act that took place in the islands, as well as encapsulating the prevailing social and political climate in Argentine at the end of such a conflict which was taken as a "product of the dictatorship".

In the years leading up to the thirtieth anniversary of the war in 2012, the Argentine society and media started to renew the claim of the nationalist Falklands cause.

The Scalabrini Ortiz , formerly known as Canning on remembrance of British statesman George Canning , was shortly named as April 2 Station during the war.