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Re:Chile searches for those missing from Pinochet dictatorsh... by Georgelemental on Saturday January 20, 2024 @03:47PM (#39072137)
> Salvador Allende [...] his democratic government

While not as bloody as Pinochet, Allende was no great saint or democrat. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chiles-allende-myth-lives-on-am...

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Re:Chile searches for those missing from Pinochet dictatorsh... by jtr1 on Saturday January 20, 2024 @03:53PM (#39072194)
I think I am going to take the WSJ Opinion Page’s assessment of Salvador Allende with a grain of salt.
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Re:Chile searches for those missing from Pinochet dictatorsh... by pi-e-sigma on Saturday January 20, 2024 @03:52PM (#39072188)
His greatest sin was getting too close to the Soviet Union. That's it. Comparing him to Pinochet is like saying that Roosevelt was just like Stalin because he was fine with putting the Japanese in the US in the internment camps during WW2.
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