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Pa i u Borhesovom slučaju je, koliko znam, politika umiješala prste. On je valjda bio gotovo siguran dobitnik, i onda je održao neki govor u kome je koketirao sa fašizmom, ili nešto slično, i to ga je definitivno diskvalifikovalo.
Ajd provjeri jos jednom, da li je "koketirao" sa fasizmom ili antikomunizmom...
A, Cosic...to je onaj senilni bivsi predsjednik? Nisam znao da on, pored toga sto se bavi politikom vec 70 godina, pise i knjige.

Davno sam čitao, u predgovoru nekoj njegovoj knjizi. Međutim, sad malo procunjah po Wikipediji:
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Some observers speculated that Borges did not receive the award because of his conservative political views; or more specifically, because he had accepted an honour from dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Citiraj:
Pinochet and his regime have been characterised as fascist. For example, author Samuel Chavkin, in his book Storm Over Chile: The Junta Under Siege, repeatedly characterizes both Pinochet himself and the military dictatorship as fascist. However, he and his regime are generally excluded from academic typologies of fascism. Roger Griffin included Pinochet in a group of pseudo-populist despots distinct from fascism and including the likes of Hitler (to a certain extent since Pinochet was not fanatically violent), Saddam Hussein, Suharto, and Ferdinand Marcos.
Iako nije bio strogo fašistički režim, nisam mnogo pogriješio, koketiranje sa Pinočeom je "akademcima" izgleda bio sasvim dovoljan razlog da Borhesa diskvalifikuju.