He was not "Santo Allende"

A few months ago we wrote about General Pinochet of Chine.  We admitted that Pinochet made mistakes.    However, I am fed up with the left’s canonization of Salvador Allende.

Let me repeat it: He was not Santo Allende!

See Augusto Pinochet: The Untold Story by Humberto Fontova:

“When Salvador Allende visited Moscow in December 1972 among his longest meetings were with Boris Ponomariev, the Kremlin’s head of “irregular warfare” for the Western Hemisphere.
By 1973, 60% of Chile’s arable land had been confiscated by the government, often with the aid of these death squads. Rolando Matus and Jacinto Huilipan were among the many farmers who protested Allende’s “Agrarian Reform” and would up kidnapped and murdered.”
In the final analysis only armed conflict will decide who is the victor!” added Allende’s governmental ally, Oscar Guillermo Garreton.

“Without the complete destruction of the bourgeois character of the state we cannot march on the path of socialism! The class struggle always entails armed conflict. Understand me, the global strategy is always accomplished through arms!”
Allende’s deputy economic minister, Sergio Ramos, didn’t mince words either: “It’s evident,” he proclaimed in mid-1973, “that the transition to socialism will first require a dictatorship of the proletariat.”
“We have no choice,” declared Chilean Communist Volodia Teitelboim, “but to act with resolution and a civil war is not a careful affair. It draws targets on both the political and the apolitical”.
His Communist comrade Luis Corvolan followed up with: “We have never considered the path of the Chilean Revolution to be exclusively an electoral one.”
By the time of Pinochet’s coup, an estimated 31,000 Cuban, Soviet bloc and Communist operatives infested Chile, including Castro’s top terrorist spymasters, Antonio De La Guardia and his (nominal) boss Manuel “Barbarroja” Pineiro.”

Among the hundreds of Soviet personnel were KGB luminaries Viktor Efremov, Vasili Stepanov and Nikolai Kotchanov.”

Yes, Pinochet probably cracked a few too many heads. At the same time, Allende tried to force a leftist revolution that Chileans did not vote for in 1970.

Was Pinochet perfect? I said that he wasn’t!

Was Allende a Saint? Not at all.

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