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>>20193770
>Implying Cuba wasn't trying to turn Chile into a communist colony.
Colony is literally what the USSR called Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. You're blind to the cold war retard. The cold war was a thing. The USSR and Cuba were colonizing the world. Allende was a KGB agent. Get your head out of your ass. They found his plane full of weapons. They found his foreign agents. They found the ship full of weapons that Castro sent. Allende was trying to turn Chile into a communist colony. He wanted to become the Chilean Stalin. The junta said from the beginning, they would re establish order, and go back to democracy, and that's exactly what they did.
> Hurr durr America made Chile into a colony by preventing 12,000 armed paramilitary communists from establishing a communist dictatorship

>>19626639
For another counter example, le based helicopter ride man Pinochet led Chile during the 80s and focused on market liberalization (Reagan era conservative economists loved him). The results were underwhelming. Meanwhile, Lenin oversaw break neck GDP growth and a surge in life expectancy.

Point being, not that communism is good, but that shit is contextual and nuanced and you shouldn't get your history from partisan hack YouTubers who don't know shit.

People go full retard on this shit. Like somehow Mao killed 100 million of 500 million people in his country, but somehow he had added almost 500 million people, doubling the population, by 1975, despite having killed everyone...