| | In "White Nationalist Terrorism" Michael Dickey asserted that Allende's government in Chile was responsible for the deaths of 300,000 people. I have not been able to validate that. I have found these:
It's time to bury the myths
Carlos Alberto Montaner
The first hammer blow against the sugary memory of a heroic Allende came from Chilean historian Víctor Farías, the author of Salvador Allende: Anti-Semitism and Euthanasia. Farías unearthed the dissertation written in 1933 by Allende to get his medical diploma.
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The late Chilean president was a KGB collaborationist, who received money, transmitted information and contributed to Soviet plans for the conquest of Latin America.
Fascism and communism were not extremes that resembled each other, as has often been said, but close branches emerging from the same socialist trunk. Allende came from that authoritarian and cruel tradition. He did not believe in freedom or democracy, although he did use them to achieve power.
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Both sides face a clear history lesson: The nation's redemption and reconciliation are possible only through democracy, tolerance, the rule of law and a humble public admission that neither Allende nor Pinochet was a leader that the country deserved. Neither matched the image his supporters attempted to create.
It is time to bury all the myths.
http://www.firmaspress.com/564.htm
"Mark Falcoff, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, expert on Latin American history and politics, and author of "Modern Chile, 1970-1989: a critical history", has written an article titled "Who killed Latin democracy?"
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Allende's Socialists -- a somewhat sui generis party made up of social democrats, anarchists and Trotskyites -- were far closer ideologically to Fidel Castro's Cuba, which, by the way, maintained a remarkably outsized diplomatic and military mission in Santiago, and also the principal source of illegal weaponry that poured into Chile during these years. Intoxicated by their own rhetoric and ideology, and also deluded by the apparent proximity of total power, the Socialists and their allies on the farthest left (the so-called MIR) were impatient to move to a final confrontation with the "bourgeoisie". During 1972 and 1973 they actively took the initiative, seizing factories and farms, far exceeding the government's own program of reform and forcing the president to recognize their audacious strokes as faits accomplis."
"George's Views," 05 March, 2000 -- Author: George Irbe http://pages.interlog.com/~girbe/chile.html
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