Only Jesus Christ blood can cleanse us of are sins come to Jesus Christ today Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void. The Holy Spirit can lead you guide and confort you through it all Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
What else can they do if their art sucks and fails to sell? They have no trade to fall back on. It's a logical move, just take over the entire country.
@@fernandodolz9247 More penniless commies, you mean? Allende was a KGB operative. With the fall of the USSR, we know this now. Good fukin riddance to him! To paraphrase _It's a Wonderful Life,_ whenever a commie dies, an angel gets its wings.
Kenneth Lay did the same thing after the Enron scandal. Died on vacation before sentencing. On May 25, 2006, Lay was found guilty on six counts of conspiracy and fraud by the jury. In a separate bench trial, Judge Lake ruled that Lay was guilty of four additional counts of fraud and making false statements. Sentencing was scheduled for September 11, 2006 and rescheduled for October 23, 2006. He died on July 5th.
On 22nd August 1973, Pinochet didn’t become chief of staff of the armed forces. He became COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY. The armed forces didn’t (and it still doesn’t) have a joint command structure, the Chief of Staff as the top commanding officer does not exist, there is a joint coordinating organization but there is no chief of staff of the armed forces, just Commander in Chiefs. One more thing, Pinochet joined the Coup last. The most adamant was the Navy commander in Chief but the chiefs of the armed forces and the military police considered the Navy as non representative enough so they had to convince Pinochet to become the de facto leader and thus securing the loyalty of the army and a more popular support.
@@ruleten9575 There is a difference between a coup and a revolution. The second one took a place with a huge people's support. Of course, it doesn't mean that communism is a good system. However, in this case it was better than previous regimes and that's why people still loved Fidel and fought for him when CIA tried to take him down.
@@CS88528 I met one Cuban in Chile. He doesn't like Castro at all but also he said it was even worse before. It's clear Cubans in the USA hate him because most of them were wealthy people who most their wealth and power after revolution. But many Cubans loved Fidel because communism was a change for better for them. It doesn't mean that it's a great system. On the contrary. Just the previous system was worse. Really great achievement, to establish worse system than communism. There was authoritarian regime and oppression before the revolution so it didn't change too much. But if it comes to economy. Most of Cubans were peasants. Under Batista and before peasants had a job just a couple of months in the year on cane plantations. A job for very small money. So they couldn't save anything for later. Many of them didn't own any land to cultivate something on their own and survive. So they lived in extreme poverty and starving pretty often. No money for education or healthcare. Communism offered them very little but still it was much more than before, full employment for a whole year (for low salaries which provides very modest life but enough to fulfill basic needs without starving), access to education (level of illiteracy was really high before and under Castro's regime it was around 0 after a while) and free healthcare (on poor level due to inefficient system and trade embargo on Cuba but still better than no access at all due to the lack of money). This is why people loved Fidel and CIA failed trying to overthrow him.
Give it a try on me big man😂 I'm Chilean and my daughter's uncle was killed by Pinochet's govt. This is my real name. I live in Pacifica, CA Please contact me. I'm EAGER to "Make your acquaintance" and see if you have the courage to say this to my face. Shitstain.
You are wrong, Mrs. Thatcher great admiration for Pinochet was because the Chilean stateman was a pionner in the economical policies that England will apply later in democracy in the UK with her in 10 Downing street. Argentina wanted to invade Chile after the Falklands, thats why informally Chile sided with England in that conflict in the south Atlantic.
America also sold a bunch of weapons and airplane fuel to Britain, they also did Britain a big favor by not asking them to call off the task force as Galtieri had requested of Alex Haig
The british special commando troups based in Chile to head out from the cordilleras to operate in Argentina during the Falklandcrises. Offcourse Argentina wanted to retaliate though to the fact these brother-countries being having a beef since day one. Chile have been involved long time in Europes politocs, many would say that without Chile no first nor second ww and dont forget Chiles landsfather name O´Higgins. I wouldnt call it admiration but sou´ll scratch mine an ill scratch yours, in other words to be frank just simple corruption.
@TheJughead77 This implies Chile somehow wasn't part of the West - the civilised world. Sure, it was still underdeveloped back then and with a socialist president, but that president was democratically elected, thus he surely did not came to power in the way Soviet puppet socialist regimes did.
@TheJughead77 Chile is also in Western hemisphere, most developed countries are on the Easrern hemisphere, yet the still are a part of the West. And there is no Hell or Heaven either. Yeah, I'm sure you did not imply anything or get anything either.
My family lived through that too, except we realize if Pinochet hadn't done the coup millions of Chileans would've died. Chile under capitalism wasn't perfect, but it was the most successful country in Latin America for a short time. Not sure about now but it had to be done, unfortunately.
Just to share, my grandpa lived in a small town in the south of Chile, he was one of the only people who can afford a truck at the time, he told me that after the coup, the police come to his house to borrow his truck for reason, then, they gave it back with the pickup full of blood, tell him to not ask and go to clean it up to the fire station, like it was nothing, apparently, more than one time
I have a Chilean immigrant friend who’s family has a picture of Pinochet on their living room wall. In their view, he’s the hero who saved their country from communism and so they respect and honor him for that
Whilst my family was imprisoned and escaped to sweden to survive his dictatorship after 2 of my uncles where shot in the street, very different views and I find that interesting
Dictators are as dictators do. They all seem to have been brought up under weird circumstances. Also, quite a few wanted to be artists and joined their countries militaries.
so, in consequence, in order to curb extremist and dictatorial tendencies all we'd have to do was fund art programs better? definitely sounds good to me
@@jthemagicrobot3960 Ever wonder why the Christian cult, once persecuted for shits and giggles by the Romans, ended up as Constantine's and Rome's official religion? Because it's perfect for indoctrinating people into sheep not capable of critical thought and enables the sort of power concentration by singular individuals rivaled only by Confucianism.
@@hughmungus1767 by natural cause you mean: >Having a stroke and your colleague refuses to provide you with medical care and they gather around to watch you die in agony in person. >Having your wife and relatives wiped out once you die. Worst still you know this will happen but are too weak to do anything about it. Politics were messy
@@augustuswade9781 the reasons the doctors didn't treat Stalin was because they were terrified of him and thought that he would have them and their families sent to gulag or straight up murdered
As someone living in Chile and being raised hearing scary stories about Pinochet, the whiplash I'm getting by hearing Simon call him "The Donkey" is spinebreaking
@@noone3272 Well, it depends a lot where you look at it. Many people disappeared during the "dictatorship" (it's still debated if it is) whos causes may have been related to him, and at least I was told that he actively chased some families that may have been related to communism. That's kind of the great divisive point, however, because it's simply what my (and other) family tells, those who were negatively affected by his governing. Other families' situations were improved significantly, and as such they hear of him exactly like that, as a great guy, and because (my, at least) school focused far less on the topic than it should've, it's still rather unclear. Tl;dr: Yes, _some_ think.
@@noone3272 Yeah, that's why it's debated if it was an actual dictatorship. He improved economy, but in terms of living conditions, only some were helped while others starved. Now, the communist thing was a process much like McCarthysm, were the accused likely weren't communists - most were forced to leave the country, in fact, and with very little money. Why I said "scary stories" is because of those people. And, well, isn't calling any political figure the "good guy" an inherently absurd thing? Pinochet was neither a good or bad guy, just a guy who simultaneously improved the economy and made it harder for some people to live here. What I mean with divisive, however, is that even nowadays there's much political discussion about the topic, especially surrounding the Constitution made under his command and what should be changed (as a new Constitution was approved, wether I like that or not) or completely remade, and as such there's much conflict and protesting from both parts which causes plenty of damage - again, be that justified or not, I'm not the one to say. I'm merely saying that explains the "good guy - scary stories" mechanic, if that makes things clearer!
@@imdrum6881 yeah. But I'd prefer fascism over communists. He's a lot like Francisco franco. Franco too came because he saw Republicans being puppets of communists and communists take over the nation. I think Communism has a better reputation than fascism because the main fascists lost the war.....
Chiang Kai Shek, formerly the leader of the Republic of China in China, and then in Taiwan is a character even more divisive than Pinochet. Could Biographics consider doing a bio on him?
@@michaelquinn8064 without Chile's help we would have lost many more men and ships, Argentina had far superior man power but they used mostly conscripts on the Falklands and kept their proper soldiers to defend the borders against Chile and us (Britain)
@@michaelquinn8064 British authorities have said, since the declassification of the documents, the task force couldn't have won without Chile's help. The Argentinian air-force was actually good, and the Brits were losing planes at an equal rate as the Argentinians, which the expeditionary force couldn't afford. This was only stopped thanks to the intel from Chile with radar, so the Brits knew when the Argentinians were coming. Chile also placed a lot of troops at the border which made Argentina worried so they put their professional elite mountain troops (which would have come handy in the Falklands, evidently) on the chilean border, instead sending conscripts to fight the professional British troops.
@@michaelquinn8064 I'm guessing your pretty young because never in all of mans existence has war/conflict been that black and white, there are so many different factors involved and then there's cost, war is extremely expensive, but Chile deserves some credit here, as thanks largely to their help it stayed a conflict and didn't become a war
@@summitlb123 Sure. Over 300 children. Pregnant women whose babies never were found. Musicians guilty of creating children orchestras and singing about poverty and injustice. Chile was a country where miners were massacred for asking a raise. 1970 was the first year all adult population had the right to vote, and one of the first ocassions the landowners couldn't force their tenants to vote for their preferred candidates. There was still babies dying from hunger, and barefoot kids begging in the streets. Allende's government pioneered in things like having the farmers becoming the owners of the land they worked, increasing the access to education, giving milk to every Chilean child. Sure, the horrible communists deserved death for that.
would be too complimentary to him. People LOVE to straw man their enemies. Personally I think Pinochet rightly so hated communists and their ilk. I'd be so angry if I lived through the ww2 era of monarchy assassinations and socialists of Europe domination.
@Franc Usually one defines "up" as the positive direction along the z axis. Under this convention, the acceleration of a commie heading towards his proper fate is, in fact, -9.8m/s². The acceleratiion vector switches back to positive z value at the fateful moment, but only for a millisecond.
@@bpj1805 This is clearly the correct answer, and it's a shame that you only have roughly the same number of likes as the ignoramus you're responding to.
Man, I’m chilean, and I’m happily willing to answer any questions . While facing the eve of the 50th remembrance of the day in which the coupe took place in 1973, watching the government palace of my nation engulfed in flames and being bombarded by Hawker Hunters shivers me, as well as the last speech given by Allende by radio minutes before he pulled the trigger against himself. In an unfortunate series of events, the Chilean nation was put in the situation in which there was only two options to choose, and both of them were nefarious. That date still divides the entire society when it comes to politics and elections. Sadly, the consequences of both paths would end to be ultimately nefarious. Once again, the people had to pay the price for having unsuitable rulers
Also, it should also be noted that the Allende’s administration’s legal observance of the Chilean 1925 constitution is a controversial topic. In spite of that, there is a general consensus within the legal community that the Fundamental Charter was infringed due to the persistent invocation of Legal Decrees (“Decretos Ley” in our legal jargon, which lack of democratic legitimacy, here referring to Böckenförde ideas about the topic) as a legal base to justify affecting property rights (mainly referred to industrial property), in order to accomplish the transition to a socialist economy. Obviously, this situation enraged private national and American actors (specially those who had rights and interests over the national copper and gold mining industry), reaching the point in which even powerful Chileans such as Agustín Edwards began contacting the White House - I mean, Henry Kissinger - to overthrow Allende. That is an important part of the story not mentioned in this video, although the thoroughness of the investigation demonstrated astonishing, they tell historic facts that I didn’t even know about
@@lcdream4213Nope, socialists are seen as bad people in the cold war sense. Chile, day by day, becomes more and more right wing and even sadder, leans into fascism
@@lcdream4213 yeah it's so stupid, bc like always none of the people who hate socialism know how it works. They think socialism is when the government helps people
Look Rex, we know you have a hard-on for Simon. We all do. He's never going to do one of himself, so you have to do your own digging like the rest of us with huge hard-ons for Simon. Unfortunately, he uses Nord VPN. So far, I've discovered he has nice watches.
@@Victor.-.E Stay safe. Use Nord ;). I use it to access Skillshare while, while wearing my GlassesUSA glasses, while drinking a glass of wine from Bright Cellars. No doubt.
There was a Tory party member interested in necrophilia and peodophilia. His name was jimmy saville. Doesn't mean theyre all sick fuckers though does it
wow, what an incredible mind you must have for making that extremely low-hanging connection. please, write some more comments about it. the world must know how good your brain is at making extremely easy connections.
Do a vid about Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov aka "Turkmenbashi" and Gurbanguly, both crazy leaders. Comparable to North Korea but replace nukes with natural gas
@@johncarlisle2755 I wrote this up for another purpose, but it focuses on some of the reasons that Allende´s government was a threat to the Chilean people and the situation wasn't black and white. I thought maybe it would help you. 1) Congress, upon electing Allende president, did so on the condition that he sign a formal document declaring that he not bring the country into Socialism & Communism. I’m pretty sure it stated that such acts were grounds for removal from office too. (As Allende didn't achieve an absolute majority, the decision of who would be president fell to congress) 2) Allende was overstepping his authority to forcibly bringing Chile into a fully socialist and communist nation. 3) Left wing extremists were assassinating their political opposition throughout the time that Allende was in Power. 4) Congress and the courts declared that Allende was overstepping and requested that the military remove him from office. Meaning that in this case, the coup was legal and constitutional. (For example, would you say that it was illegal if Trump lost in his impeachment process, didn’t step down, and the military was forced to remove him? This is actually a pretty close parallel to what happened in Chile.) 5) When this decision was taken, there were arms being shipped from the Soviet Union and their puppet states in order to arm Allende’s army effectively initiating a civil war. 6) The Chilean economy was collapsing under Allende, there was a food shortage, and malnutrition was a real threat for many. 7) The justification for not having elections after the coup was that democracy had just failed to provide a government which adequately protected the population. This may not be enough to justify the removal of democracy, depending on where you stand. But, for many Chileans (maybe even a majority at the time), it was. 8) After like 18 years, and after a vote, Pinochet peacefully and willingly returned the country to democracy. This is something that I don’t think has ever happened under any other Latin American Dictatorship (even if it may have been overdue after 17ish years - this issue is still hotly debated in Chile). 9) While it is undeniable that Pinochet was brutal in his treatment of his political opposition, so was his opposition. Many here in Chile believe that Pinochet saved Chile from a worse fate, that being communism. This position is seconded by many who live in other Latin American countries where dictatorships haven’t relinquished power and the consequences of those regimes were much more dire (Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, etc…).
@@jonm3024 Hey, where did you find that Allende signed a formal document declaring that he not bring the country into Socialism & Communism? Can i have a link please? I would love to share that with my chilean family.
@@jonm3024 there's a lady I know from Chile.She describe to me was going in they declared Marshall law or similar came into there home said they needed only one vehicle took the other.Any bedrooms empty had to be used for others .Her family exiled to US I guess this was under Allende she didn't say but in that time period.
Strange aspirational take on Allende in this. Not one mention of the things his government did, no explanation for why a coup in a country with a long democratic tradition was successful and accepted. Maybe do a bit more on why Allende's government was not popular (same old communist story: land collectivization that was supposed to uplift the peasant classes did exactly the opposite, famine, political executions, etc. You get the idea) And the idea that pinochet was in some way more heinous than other people of his type. His dictatorship was bloody, but resulted in democracy and one of the best economies in Latin America. Which is again portrayed in a negative light. Look, income inequality is an issue, but would you rather everyone be poor and starving and therefore there is no income inequality? Or would you rather there be a wealthy class, a middle class, a lower class, and a poor class? Under Allende they had all the corruption and violence, but none of the food, the prosperity, or stability of Pinochet's dictatorship, which eventually gave way to a stable democratic society with a functioning economy. I love these, but this one seems a bit one sided.
Can you make a video about admiral general Aladeen? Nah just kidding, but a vid about L. I. Brezhnev would be interesting. Edit: Thanks for the Aladeens!
Gus don't look like a Chilean at all. Also, the military officers are pretty picky with your family origins so is uncommon to find someone with dark skin i the high ranks.
Make a vid about Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, man who led Finland througt ww2 or President Risto Ryti who took all the blame for allying Finland with Germany so others wouldnt need to suffer from the consequences
Mannerheims military career is amazing. Aristocrat badass Hitler siding with. Also handels policy and politics amazing. National father of Modern Suomi-Finland
With you making biographics for all these dictators and monsters (and some other, more nice people), you could make a biographic about "El Presidente de Tropico" as an april fools' joke!
I showed this to a great friend of mine I met on a flight who is 92 years old and Chilean. He said he laughed the whole way through and said, let me guess a bunch of Marxist made this video...
US: We are here to guarantee every country in the Americas holds free and democratic elections. Chile: Cool, we want Allende. US: ... wat the FUUUUUUKK?
You mean the one who fucked Argentina's economy so bad that they are still screw for it even to this day and accepted Nazis and Fascist from Germany and Italy after WWII? Yep it would be interesting
You omitted one big thing about the 1988 referendum, Pinochet was so certain he was going to win that he actually let the remaining left-wing figures go on TV to speak for the 'No' side in a political debate. Ricardo Lagos represented Pinochets opponents in that debate and spent several minutes absolutely dominating the discussion and ripping Pinochet apart on his crimes. Watching it Pinochet was said to be 'climbing the walls' in rage but Lagos had become the figurehead of the opposition and he knew he couldn't disappear him without inciting mass riots
@@GBWallace In fact, he allowed all the opposition to publish anti-Pinochet magazines and newspapers. More than 50% were of that ilk. Only the communist party was absolutely illegal until 1989. All parties were suspended until 1988. The present is just misinformed or lying.
@acammtt yeah Venezuela is facing decades of US economic war and political meddling and they're doing incredibly well surviving and providing when most other regimes would have collapses
@@sufimuslimlion4114 Yeah. America is the whole reason that any country fails...keep believing that. Have you ever noticed that America's allies are rich? Have ever noticed that socialist countries are poor?
Vanities what? Chile’s economy was booming under Pinochet. Whatever Pinochet did is the reason why Chile is one of the best countries in South America.
My dad lived through these events and emigrated into Australia with his mum and 4 siblings at the time. Pinochet is the reason why I've never met my grandpa. My grandma is half mapuche and half atacama, but was sent to retiro, one of those country towns the caravan of death drove through (retiro is also a place where the government forced indigenous people into). In 1978, Pinochet's forces kidnapped my dad, his brother and two of his sisters, his dad and my dad's grandpa. They forced my 10 year old father to watch his grandfather be hung, his sisters be raped and killed and his brother shot. He and his dad went through weeks of torture after that, and then were kicked out on the streets of Santiago. After being thrown around they survived miraculously in the warzone that was the streets of santiago at the time, hopped on the back of a truck going south and arrived in Retiro where they found my grandma, and started the immigration process to Australia. Something many latin americans might relate to this, but the generational trauma passed down to me and my siblings in australia has been awful. My grandma was very against white people, especially french people, when she moved to australia, and got really mad at my dad for marrying my mum (my mum is anglo australian). The things my grandma has told me sticks with me. Things like "White people can always turn on you". Honestly, I think it's the reason why I don't surround myself with white people commonly, unless its my family (obviously). I tear up whenever my dad tells me the stories. As a kid, I'd find my dad crying holding pictures of his siblings and grandparents and ask what was wrong but to think of the struggles he went through to get to where we are makes me so proud to be his child. Also how powerful my grandma is, which doesn't relate to this (she was taken from her family when she was 17 to try to "fit in with white people" because she is lightskin). She went through weeks of wondering if her family was killed. Whenever I've gone back to Chile my dad brings up things he went through in specific areas, my favourite and hardest hitting story of his being when he arrived at Cerro Santa Lucia in santiago, where he felt at peace for the first time in months. Unfortunately though, my dad's dad died of a heart attack at only 44, while still in his mother-in-laws house in Retiro. My dad has said this is because "A piece of his heart was ripped out in those weeks", referring to him watching three of his eight children murdered, as well as his father. That's my relation to Pinochet, and my thoughts. have a great day/night
I'm so sorry for your family's pain and all they had to go trough. The wounds this f*cking monster (and his wife, who was probably as bad or worse) left in Chilean society are still bleeding. I don't remember if it was last year or the year before that, but I heard my father for the very first time, referring to what my grandad had to go through as torture, even being rushed to the hospital to stabilise him, and then back to prison for more torture. Before that I knew he had lived in exile, and kind of deduced he had been tortured, as he was arrested for being leftist, but it was never truly said out loud. My grandad was "lucky", as he survived and went into exile. It freaking sucks that so many Chileans today are still denying everything, or worse, they recognize it, and still worship that m*therf*cker Pinochet as a savior of the country. Monsters all of them.
I know you’ve done 2 Roman emperors already but could you guys possibly do Constantine? He basically is the founder of Christianity in Europe. Rome went from persecuting Christians to making it the state religion.
LOL! Someone has been watching conspiracy videos I see. Religion for breakfast covered this. Constantine just decriminalized Christianity he did not make it the state religion. Stay off the tinfoil hat websites. Emperor Theodosius I made it the state religion in 391 long after Constantine. You're welcome.
Would you like to live in a country where anyone like you can be killed, and your body made disappear, and your whereabouts never revealed to your family, and your very existence denied, without any crime proven in a court of law? Oh, you think it would never happen to me, I am no communist. Most of the executed weren't communists either, many had no political affiliation and over 300 were children. You don't have the least idea what you are talking about. But, if you are American, and Trump isn't expelled soon enough, you might know, in yourself, or in anyone who you love. Assuming you are capable of that emotion.
@@AlphaFoxAdam Neither were a great many of the people he killed. Of course, none of it mattered, because Chileans vandalised his corpse after it was interred. They had to cremate him. Then his gravestone was vandalised too. The people he fought to "protect" hate him.
Turning your subtitles on at 6:39 states that "Trying to win elections as a socialist was like trying to win Mr. Universe *when you look like a Biographics scriptwriter*" XD
So the moral of the story is: If someone sucks at everything but art, and they even end up failing at art, keep a very close eye on them because there is a high probability they will become a dictator.
Chilean here. My 4 grandparents all agreed that Pinochet saved the country, which was at the brink of communism at the time. Obviously, my 4 grandparents lived there and were there while everything went down, so they have a clear internal view of the facts. Same with my dad and mom. Under Allende, people were making kilometric lines to buy sugar, tea, and other basic necessities, only to get there and find nothing left because there wasn't enough of anything. If it wasn't for Pinochet, Chile would have easily ended up a Cuba 2.0. How do I know this?? because under Allende, Fidel Castro smuggled into Chile over 5,000 Cuban and Russian communists, ready for battle, who also smuggled thousands of weapons. They were going to do a communist takeover of the country anyways. I don't know about you, but prefer to have sugar in my tea, while not getting invaded by foreign communists at that. You sitting from the comfort of your home, making videos from your capitalist-based country, which gives you the opportunity to make money through an internet platform, would have never been able to do this under a communist regime. Also, you don't seem to be able to grasp what people in Chile went through during that time period. Chile was falling into a point of no return, and it wasn't gonna be a good one.
Fun Facts: Poverty skyrocketed in Chile after Pinochet came in. The economy collapsed massively TWICE. After that he massively CENTRALIZED the economy to save it. Also Allende had NO plans of taking over the country, that is an old lie from the cold war days we know to be false today.
Oh yes why not have every democratic country taken over by a fascist CIA plant. Genius. If your grandparents support Pinochet then I'm sorry to break this to you but they were almost certainly fascists, or at the least members of the owning class who stood to benefit from his regime
You blame people for wanting basic human rights and treatment as communist enemies? Sorry you had to hear it from me but your family are actual facists, i'd be willing to bet you're quite well off economically in chile and that came thanks to the murder of thousands of nornal people who wanted a normal life
Mine also, I lived there then and this video is the common ignorant "well-researched" outsider view. It was a difficult situation and the guy had the huevos to do what needed to be done.
It's worth noting that Chile's copper industry was kept nationalised and that one reason Chile's economy was terrible under Salvador Allende was that the Americas tried to screw it up by basically cut them off from loans and a lot of foreign trade. So when Chile got access to capital and more trade (so the copper the government owned could be traded) the economy improved. So that likely had a huge effect on its recovery
@Dumisani Nkosi what are you trying to say? They guy at that timestamp isn't holding an FN FAL if that is what you are thinking... look at the curved mag.... not FN FAL...
@@Sugarsail1 which brutal methods did Allende use? I am genuinely curious. And if you think America wasn't busy trying to destroy the Chilean economy I have a bridge to sell you.
It should be said that as Allende had just 36,6% of the votes in 1970 election (less than 50,01%, or absolute majority), according to the Chilean Constitution needed to be confirmed as president by the Senate. So in order to get the vote of the Senate, Allende signed a document to the Christian Democracy party promising to be respectful to democracy and Constitution. But after being confirmed as president, Allende said in an interview that he had signed that document just for tactical reasons, because his main goal was to transform Chile from a liberal democracy into a socialist regime. So Allende was the real traitor in the story. He betrayed the Chilean democracy he had already promised to respect. I will add some more information that is well known in Chile about other ideas of Allende. The title of his thesis for becoming a doctor was "Mental hygiene and delinquency" where he stated that jews and gypsies were prone to delinquency. Moreover he also proposes a massive sterilization for alcoholics and persons with mental problems. These ideas would seem very weird today, but in the year in which Allende presented his thesis seemed very advanced, the year was 1933! The same year in which Hitler won the elections and got the power in Germany. All this appears in the book "Salvador Allende, antisemitismo y eutanasia " (published in 2005) by the Chilean historian and philosopher Victor Farias. Apart form that, there are other pieces of information about Allende's simpathies with the nazi, being president of Chile, Allende denied to Simon Wiesenthal the extradition of the nazi criminal Walter Rauff who at the time lived in the city of Punta Arenas in the south of Chile. So Simon, here you have more information for your biography of Allende.
Opino lo mismo ...deja de justificar al asesino. En 1933 las ideas racistas y de esterilización eran parte de un paradigma dominante. Después del holocausto dejaron de serlo. Este señor nacido 1940 Víctor Farias ha dedicado su vida a estudiar el nazismo y según él " derribar mitos" ....rencor, envidia, rivalidad política....en fin. Sr o Sra. Supongo que sabe que los países vencedores se pelearon a los científicos nazis, muchos países, ayudados por el Vaticano recibieron nazis. Latinoamérica es conocida por ser el punto final de la ruta de las ratas. Finalmente, veo en usted, un intento más de justificar lo injusticable. Feo, feo.
@@rxnlfr7664 Hartas falacias en su posteo. Primero científicos nazis no significa planificadores de muerte en serie, a esos no se los "peleó" nadie, y tampoco eran científicos, sino charlatanes criminales. Es curiosa su línea de división de ese "paradigma dominante" porque en ese mismo tiempo había mucha gente que se oponía a las justificaciones demagógicas del antisemitismo. Por ejemplo las miles de personas, incluyendo al Vaticano, que ayudaron de algún modo a esconder o trasladar a personas judías fuera del alcance nazi. Así que ese antes y después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial como evento para abrir los ojos frente al racismo antisemita es puro cuento y justificación de lo injustificable. Y sobre lo otro, es simple, en 1973 la gran mayoría de los chilenos queríamos vivir en democracia, no queríamos ser forzados a ser parte de ninguna revolución, tal como supongo usted mismo no querría vivir en estos momentos en la Venezuela chavista.
Hey Biographics! Since you guys are doing some videos on South American controversial leaders. I’d love for you to look just north of Chile to Peru. The same year Pinochet stepped down Alberto Fujimori began running Peru. The controversies of his legacy (and his current status in house arrest) still send ripples through the country. It’s a juicy story. I think you guys might like it
@@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622 He overthrew a democratically elected government, destroyed the democratic structures in Chile and established a fascist military regime, sold his country's land and property to American billionaires, destroyed unions and worker's rights, indebted his country to the IMF, drove over 40% of his country into poverty, caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people and created one of the worst refugee crises in 20th century Latin American history. Basic history.
I recognise that Pinochet was all that you said; however, if you criticise the current situation in Venezuela today, you should speak about the tough times that Chileans that do not belong to the left had to endure under the allende's regime.
Those "tough times" are caused by US sanctions and frozen assets in US banks. The US hate socialism and will stomp out the fair treatment of humanity wherever it can
@Spartan 506 Nah chief, Obama really likes helping the kids being treated in the Middle Eastern hospitals. He gave supplies, which just so happen to be sent by F-15s and UAVs.
Customs official father? Religious mother? A momma's boy? Mediocre student with a talent for art? BRO HE HAD ALL THE SIGNS THAT HE'LL BECOME A FUTURE DICTATOR
That Guy “hey that guy’s gonna rob for 15000 dollars...” Proceeds to rob the person for 10,000 dollars.” Whether or not chile would have become a communist dictatorship isn’t known... (if u argue this point... can I also have tomorrow’s lottery numbers?)... Allende was way more peaceful with and respectful of opposition figures. This is why he did nothing while certain generals were OPENLY calling for him to be assassinated. The opposition party may claim to support free speech, but make no mistake... they’d killed you if they had the chance. Something smarter socialists and capitalists dictatorships learned. The US was arguably extremely close to this reality under john adams, and during the civil rights movements. Just say the opposition are criminals, who’s gonna prove it?... This is why socialists have purges and why America today lists BLM as terrorists and why the most influential black panthers were shot in their sleep/died to bombs.
DB Cooper historically Marxist governments have killed off an average of 10% of the population of the countries they take over. Hence, communist murder factories. Allende NOT getting a chance to kill 10% of the population is a victory for Chile. In a choice of evils, a few thousands is preferable to hundreds of thousands. A video that uses the term “red scare” is usually leftist propaganda. US foreign policy in Central and South America was a choice of evils and preventing Marxist slaughter was a legitimate goal.
@@procinctu1 So to prevent what idiots like you thought would be "Communist murder factories" they overthrew leaders to put dictators into power, who then killed millions and destabilized entire countries? That's the lesser of two evils? And the cold war era US was Red Scare 101. Anything left of a conservative was seen as a socialist/communist and was put on a hit list. I would also be interested in reading your research for Marxist governments killing "10% of the population."
Pinochet was anti-Marxist and prevented Chile from becoming like Venezuela. Today Chile has one of best economies and standards of living in South America while Venezuela has one of the worst.
And I am absolutely sure that the southamerican miracle could never have been posible without human rights violations or a fat swiss bank account(yes, I am being sarcastic).
I have recently read a biography of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald. He was an extremely fascinating character with an amazing career! I wanted to request a video about him specifically here because of his part in securing Chilean and Brazilian independence from Spain and Portugal. If I recall correctly, the Chilean government still lays a wreath upon his tomb in Westminster every year.
Great man. Allende was running his country to the ground and Chile would've been in the same situation as Venezuela is today. Thanks to Pinochet, Chile is one of the few countries worth living in South America.
This is hilariously wrong. Pinochet was a nobody who became a mass murderer. Hardly a "great" man. Everything he was he owed to the CIA, from the manipulation of Allende's economy to the massive financial support he received to keep his failed inflationary policies from completely collapsing the Chilean economy. Chile is what it is today in spite of this monster, not because of him.
Pinochet nearly prevented Chile's national football from playing in the 1974 World Cup, after they qualified against the USSR, who withdrew because they claimed Santiago was a city under siege. The 2nd and final was supposed to be played at the National Stadium in Santiago, but was being used as a detention center where people were imprisoned, tortured, and executed. FIFA sent a delegation to the stadium, where they looked around and saw nothing irregular. The prisoners were hidden away while the delegation was present. The USSR national team was convinced otherwise and urged the game to be played elsewhere. FIFA delivered an ultimatum, to either game to Santiago or forfeit. The USSR ended up forfeiting and Chile qualified by default.
"You're fit to stand trial!" "I'll show you fit to stand trial!" Promptly dies.
Pinochet was a madlad to his death
@@edwardblom4217 He adored power and exercising violence against whoever didn´t obey his rules.
@@veronicasanacion Thank fucking god
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Lame af
Chilean Authorities:
“We’re going to arrest you now.”
Pinochet:
*goes beast mode and dies*
Based the only two times I have cried in Chile is when I saw Michael Jackson die and Pinochet die
900th 👍
gets 4ucked by the grim reaper is more like it.
What the hell is it with possible artists becoming dictators
Because painting with blood is more fun.
What else can they do if their art sucks and fails to sell? They have no trade to fall back on. It's a logical move, just take over the entire country.
They are idealists with big visions, not pragmatists
And momma's boys. Them being messed up in general. (Dolfi, Pino, the guy who made furniture from women...)
Look at so called stalinist antifa in usa. All liberal arts students.
I lived in Santiago starting in 1996. Pinochet was a very polarizing figure. Chileans either loved him or hated him there was no middle ground.
yes, but more people hate him to be clear
@@fernandodolz9247 not rly
@@el.vicho.de.la.sierra oh believe me jsjs
@@fernandodolz9247 More penniless commies, you mean?
Allende was a KGB operative. With the fall of the USSR, we know this now. Good fukin riddance to him!
To paraphrase _It's a Wonderful Life,_ whenever a commie dies, an angel gets its wings.
@@bcubed72 no, overrall in the population i mean
I'm so glad that Bob Ross never was handed the reins of power. We would all be dead.
Happy little people (said in a soporific voice)
no, no no he was not a FAILED artist. Only the ones that fail....
He was in the military before he was an artist, so I could see it happening lol
And imagine Mr Rogers as torturer in chief.....
Internet Wonder Builder what lol
Dying shortly after hearing you're medically fit enough for standing trial? What a powermove
🇨🇱 Absolute Chad 🇨🇱
Over 90 years old, sure.
Love the Rhodesia photo!
Kenneth Lay did the same thing after the Enron scandal. Died on vacation before sentencing.
On May 25, 2006, Lay was found guilty on six counts of conspiracy and fraud by the jury. In a separate bench trial, Judge Lake ruled that Lay was guilty of four additional counts of fraud and making false statements. Sentencing was scheduled for September 11, 2006 and rescheduled for October 23, 2006. He died on July 5th.
LOL !! No kidding !!
On 22nd August 1973, Pinochet didn’t become chief of staff of the armed forces. He became COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY. The armed forces didn’t (and it still doesn’t) have a joint command structure, the Chief of Staff as the top commanding officer does not exist, there is a joint coordinating organization but there is no chief of staff of the armed forces, just Commander in Chiefs.
One more thing, Pinochet joined the Coup last. The most adamant was the Navy commander in Chief but the chiefs of the armed forces and the military police considered the Navy as non representative enough so they had to convince Pinochet to become the de facto leader and thus securing the loyalty of the army and a more popular support.
Watanabe Carcass all the coup leaders were traitors and rabid dogs.
@@mattharvey4770 What about Fidel and Raul?
@@ruleten9575
There is a difference between a coup and a revolution. The second one took a place with a huge people's support.
Of course, it doesn't mean that communism is a good system. However, in this case it was better than previous regimes and that's why people still loved Fidel and fought for him when CIA tried to take him down.
@@CS88528
I met one Cuban in Chile. He doesn't like Castro at all but also he said it was even worse before.
It's clear Cubans in the USA hate him because most of them were wealthy people who most their wealth and power after revolution.
But many Cubans loved Fidel because communism was a change for better for them. It doesn't mean that it's a great system. On the contrary. Just the previous system was worse. Really great achievement, to establish worse system than communism.
There was authoritarian regime and oppression before the revolution so it didn't change too much. But if it comes to economy.
Most of Cubans were peasants. Under Batista and before peasants had a job just a couple of months in the year on cane plantations. A job for very small money. So they couldn't save anything for later. Many of them didn't own any land to cultivate something on their own and survive. So they lived in extreme poverty and starving pretty often. No money for education or healthcare.
Communism offered them very little but still it was much more than before, full employment for a whole year (for low salaries which provides very modest life but enough to fulfill basic needs without starving), access to education (level of illiteracy was really high before and under Castro's regime it was around 0 after a while) and free healthcare (on poor level due to inefficient system and trade embargo on Cuba but still better than no access at all due to the lack of money).
This is why people loved Fidel and CIA failed trying to overthrow him.
@K MB brrrrrr
Give a man a parachute and he'll fly for a few minutes
Take away he's chute and he'll fly for the rest of his life
Funny meeting you here.
@@augustopinochet1670 Based
Give it a try on me big man😂
I'm Chilean and my daughter's uncle was killed by Pinochet's govt. This is my real name. I live in Pacifica, CA
Please contact me. I'm EAGER to "Make your acquaintance" and see if you have the courage to say this to my face. Shitstain.
Commies and helicopters go hand in hand
Thatchers admiration with Pinochet most likely came from the fact he was the only world leader to assist Britain during the Falklands war.
You are wrong, Mrs. Thatcher great admiration for Pinochet was because the Chilean stateman was a pionner in the economical policies that England will apply later in democracy in the UK with her in 10 Downing street. Argentina wanted to invade Chile after the Falklands, thats why informally Chile sided with England in that conflict in the south Atlantic.
@@fernandodelacuadra9703 you did not disprove his point
America also sold a bunch of weapons and airplane fuel to Britain, they also did Britain a big favor by not asking them to call off the task force as Galtieri had requested of Alex Haig
The british special commando troups based in Chile to head out from the cordilleras to operate in Argentina during the Falklandcrises. Offcourse Argentina wanted to retaliate though to the fact these brother-countries being having a beef since day one. Chile have been involved long time in Europes politocs, many would say that without Chile no first nor second ww and dont forget Chiles landsfather name O´Higgins. I wouldnt call it admiration but sou´ll scratch mine an ill scratch yours, in other words to be frank just simple corruption.
@@fernandodelacuadra9703 He's not wrong, but neither is your point...there are lots of good reasons to love Pinochet.
When you have one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it? Or just let it slip?
-Pinochet, 1973.
Said with mom's spaghetti on his shirt.
TheJughead77 nationalism is for indoctrinated people
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down the crowd goes so wild
@TheJughead77 This implies Chile somehow wasn't part of the West - the civilised world. Sure, it was still underdeveloped back then and with a socialist president, but that president was democratically elected, thus he surely did not came to power in the way Soviet puppet socialist regimes did.
@TheJughead77 Chile is also in Western hemisphere, most developed countries are on the Easrern hemisphere, yet the still are a part of the West. And there is no Hell or Heaven either.
Yeah, I'm sure you did not imply anything or get anything either.
the vote:
Yes, for him to stay.
No, for him to not leave.
Pinochet did nothing wrong
@@edwardblom4217only mistake leaving power and not killing all the commies
Yes. Let him stay.
piti tops You’re an idiot
@Lemur Monkey Spoken like a true communist
September 11 1973. I was only 4 years old but I remember that day clearly.
Wasn’t it wonderful
LUCKYYY
The answer to 1984 is in 1973
My family lived through that too, except we realize if Pinochet hadn't done the coup millions of Chileans would've died. Chile under capitalism wasn't perfect, but it was the most successful country in Latin America for a short time. Not sure about now but it had to be done, unfortunately.
@@rexruther4864Yeah, yeah. Up is down, black is white and hate is love.
Cuba : you’re fit for trial
Pinochet : nah I die now
Dead is better than jailed.
He was literally scared to death
Pinochet for life
@@HeyGuy4321 hes rotting in hell
@@hueyfreeman1983
He’s waiting for you.
After all, there aren’t any leftists in heaven to torment.
Just to share, my grandpa lived in a small town in the south of Chile, he was one of the only people who can afford a truck at the time, he told me that after the coup, the police come to his house to borrow his truck for reason, then, they gave it back with the pickup full of blood, tell him to not ask and go to clean it up to the fire station, like it was nothing, apparently, more than one time
@Wyatt Earp You must missed near the end of video where there was embezzlement discovered done by the dictator.
@Wyatt Earp if you're willing to commit genocide you're corrupt
Gruesome.
@Wyatt Earp would you prefer mass killing instead? Plus you ignored the the guy who commented below you, and my statement about corruption.
Blessed be your grandfather for borrowing them his truck!
In a Dictablanda, you get your truck back.
"Get to the chopper"
-Augusto Pinochet
I see military uniforms isnt the only thing Chile has taken from the Germanic people.
No
@@ieatgremlins Yes
"Get to the Pinochet"
- Augusto Chopper
Mo Fuggar GrossDeutchland!
I have a Chilean immigrant friend who’s family has a picture of Pinochet on their living room wall.
In their view, he’s the hero who saved their country from communism and so they respect and honor him for that
Whilst my family was imprisoned and escaped to sweden to survive his dictatorship after 2 of my uncles where shot in the street, very different views and I find that interesting
Lmao most Chileans hate Pinochet
@@slavicemperor8279 i don't think so
Not really
As they should
Lived with mom,wanted to be an artist, became a soldier...sounds like another dictator...
don't forget - brought up Catholic
Dictators are as dictators do. They all seem to have been brought up under weird circumstances. Also, quite a few wanted to be artists and joined their countries militaries.
So were you saying that Pinochet has also enraged his father, who punished him severely?
so, in consequence, in order to curb extremist and dictatorial tendencies all we'd have to do was fund art programs better? definitely sounds good to me
@@jthemagicrobot3960
Ever wonder why the Christian cult, once persecuted for shits and giggles by the Romans, ended up as Constantine's and Rome's official religion? Because it's perfect for indoctrinating people into sheep not capable of critical thought and enables the sort of power concentration by singular individuals rivaled only by Confucianism.
>35k tortured during the regime
Stalin and Mao:"Look at this virgin boio xaxaxa"
Fernando M Wasn’t the ex president of chile... literally raped by a dog under Pinochet’s watch lmao. Yeah, no ur lying lmao.
Kisen Liang - Stalin and Mao each tortured and killed MILLIONS of people and died in their own beds of natural causes.
@@hughmungus1767 by natural cause you mean:
>Having a stroke and your colleague refuses to provide you with medical care and they gather around to watch you die in agony in person.
>Having your wife and relatives wiped out once you die. Worst still you know this will happen but are too weak to do anything about it.
Politics were messy
@@augustuswade9781 the reasons the doctors didn't treat Stalin was because they were terrified of him and thought that he would have them and their families sent to gulag or straight up murdered
@@devourofkidneys980 that was pretty obvious I'd say
“The most repressive regime on the continent”
Alfredo Stroessner has entered the chat
Emílio Médici
And General Videla.
Trujillo: am i a joke to you?
Fujimori:LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
until the moment when communism has not yet triumphed
As someone living in Chile and being raised hearing scary stories about Pinochet, the whiplash I'm getting by hearing Simon call him "The Donkey" is spinebreaking
Wasnt he great guy?
@@noone3272 Well, it depends a lot where you look at it. Many people disappeared during the "dictatorship" (it's still debated if it is) whos causes may have been related to him, and at least I was told that he actively chased some families that may have been related to communism. That's kind of the great divisive point, however, because it's simply what my (and other) family tells, those who were negatively affected by his governing. Other families' situations were improved significantly, and as such they hear of him exactly like that, as a great guy, and because (my, at least) school focused far less on the topic than it should've, it's still rather unclear.
Tl;dr: Yes, _some_ think.
@@noone3272 Yeah, that's why it's debated if it was an actual dictatorship. He improved economy, but in terms of living conditions, only some were helped while others starved. Now, the communist thing was a process much like McCarthysm, were the accused likely weren't communists - most were forced to leave the country, in fact, and with very little money. Why I said "scary stories" is because of those people. And, well, isn't calling any political figure the "good guy" an inherently absurd thing? Pinochet was neither a good or bad guy, just a guy who simultaneously improved the economy and made it harder for some people to live here.
What I mean with divisive, however, is that even nowadays there's much political discussion about the topic, especially surrounding the Constitution made under his command and what should be changed (as a new Constitution was approved, wether I like that or not) or completely remade, and as such there's much conflict and protesting from both parts which causes plenty of damage - again, be that justified or not, I'm not the one to say. I'm merely saying that explains the "good guy - scary stories" mechanic, if that makes things clearer!
@@imdrum6881 yeah. But I'd prefer fascism over communists.
He's a lot like Francisco franco.
Franco too came because he saw Republicans being puppets of communists and communists take over the nation.
I think Communism has a better reputation than fascism because the main fascists lost the war.....
@@noone3272 That is not my place nor my intention to argue about. I simply hope I could make my comment clear!
Chiang Kai Shek, formerly the leader of the Republic of China in China, and then in Taiwan is a character even more divisive than Pinochet. Could Biographics consider doing a bio on him?
broke roc
woke qing
@@rhodesianwojak2095 many say he lost China
I went looking for that one today hope they do it soon ;)
Sun Yat-sen
I agree that would be a good watch
You missed out the part where only general Pinochet and Chile would help Britain during the Falklands conflict
SO? LIKE WE COULDNT BEAT ARGENTINA ALONE LOL
ARGENTINA NO GOOD AT FIGHTY
@@michaelquinn8064 without Chile's help we would have lost many more men and ships, Argentina had far superior man power but they used mostly conscripts on the Falklands and kept their proper soldiers to defend the borders against Chile and us (Britain)
@@michaelquinn8064 British authorities have said, since the declassification of the documents, the task force couldn't have won without Chile's help. The Argentinian air-force was actually good, and the Brits were losing planes at an equal rate as the Argentinians, which the expeditionary force couldn't afford. This was only stopped thanks to the intel from Chile with radar, so the Brits knew when the Argentinians were coming. Chile also placed a lot of troops at the border which made Argentina worried so they put their professional elite mountain troops (which would have come handy in the Falklands, evidently) on the chilean border, instead sending conscripts to fight the professional British troops.
@@michaelquinn8064 I'm guessing your pretty young because never in all of mans existence has war/conflict been that black and white, there are so many different factors involved and then there's cost, war is extremely expensive, but Chile deserves some credit here, as thanks largely to their help it stayed a conflict and didn't become a war
Pinochet: *exists*
Commies: Why do I hear helicopters in a distance?
Edgy
Why am I falling freely??
Most of the people who were executed were only dissidents to his rule or his former friends, not proven Communists.
@@nguyenhuy2163 no it was mostly commies and less than 2000 people. He was a great man.
@@summitlb123 Sure. Over 300 children. Pregnant women whose babies never were found. Musicians guilty of creating children orchestras and singing about poverty and injustice.
Chile was a country where miners were massacred for asking a raise.
1970 was the first year all adult population had the right to vote, and one of the first ocassions the landowners couldn't force their tenants to vote for their preferred candidates. There was still babies dying from hunger, and barefoot kids begging in the streets. Allende's government pioneered in things like having the farmers becoming the owners of the land they worked, increasing the access to education, giving milk to every Chilean child.
Sure, the horrible communists deserved death for that.
I know this is 4 years old but Simon really missed a grand opportunity to say "the donkey ruled with his iron hooves " 😂😂
would be too complimentary to him. People LOVE to straw man their enemies.
Personally I think Pinochet rightly so hated communists and their ilk. I'd be so angry if I lived through the ww2 era of monarchy assassinations and socialists of Europe domination.
"-9.8 meters persecond squared" Augusto Pinochet
@Franc Usually one defines "up" as the positive direction along the z axis. Under this convention, the acceleration of a commie heading towards his proper fate is, in fact, -9.8m/s². The acceleratiion vector switches back to positive z value at the fateful moment, but only for a millisecond.
@@bpj1805 This is clearly the correct answer, and it's a shame that you only have roughly the same number of likes as the ignoramus you're responding to.
You forgot to mention that Salvador allende was a USSR informat before he was elected.
You got a source for that, cause I would be very careful making those types of claims with the amount of disinformation the junta and the CIA put out.
@@kingofbadgers3019 The source of that claim is KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin. Christopher Andrews wrote a book about it.
@@RobertIsMusic cheers I'll give it a look
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ok that justifies a bloody coup
Would love to visit Chile one day.
Very beautiful country with good people. It's worth the visit
If you ever do, check the South, thats the beauty of Chile
The South of Chile is an absolute treasure. Santiago is beautiful as well.
Hope you have a taste for mayonnaise.
Yep, Chile is a beautiful country, just like most of South America. Though, I don't know how stable Chile is.
2:38 last time we had an aspiring artist turned soldier turned head of state, it did not go well...
Could you do a video about Fransisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War?
Very interesting video as always Simon!
I would love to see a video about revolutionary Catalonia tbh
@@yungyahweh And Euskadi (the Basque Country of Northeast Spain), of course!
Euskara bihotzean baina erdara ezpainean!
@Zero Cool "se lo gano , selo ganoooo!!!!!.".....jajajaja...
yeah this should be "dictators and monsters" week!
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House arrest? He was 90, where was he going 😂😂
We're not certain.
His turn signal was on for hours; he seemed oblivious...
@@kerriwilson7732 😂😂😂
@@kerriwilson7732 sounds like a regular 90 year old, dont know why its a big thing
Old Country Buffet
If there was any justice prison
Finally, a video on Mr. Helicopter
Davidatomic: Who, Vic Morrow?
Are you referring to their helicopter executions? Be careful- Zelensky might steal his ideas!
Man, I’m chilean, and I’m happily willing to answer any questions . While facing the eve of the 50th remembrance of the day in which the coupe took place in 1973, watching the government palace of my nation engulfed in flames and being bombarded by Hawker Hunters shivers me, as well as the last speech given by Allende by radio minutes before he pulled the trigger against himself. In an unfortunate series of events, the Chilean nation was put in the situation in which there was only two options to choose, and both of them were nefarious. That date still divides the entire society when it comes to politics and elections. Sadly, the consequences of both paths would end to be ultimately nefarious. Once again, the people had to pay the price for having unsuitable rulers
Also, it should also be noted that the Allende’s administration’s legal observance of the Chilean 1925 constitution is a controversial topic. In spite of that, there is a general consensus within the legal community that the Fundamental Charter was infringed due to the persistent invocation of Legal Decrees (“Decretos Ley” in our legal jargon, which lack of democratic legitimacy, here referring to Böckenförde ideas about the topic) as a legal base to justify affecting property rights (mainly referred to industrial property), in order to accomplish the transition to a socialist economy. Obviously, this situation enraged private national and American actors (specially those who had rights and interests over the national copper and gold mining industry), reaching the point in which even powerful Chileans such as Agustín Edwards began contacting the White House - I mean, Henry Kissinger - to overthrow Allende. That is an important part of the story not mentioned in this video, although the thoroughness of the investigation demonstrated astonishing, they tell historic facts that I didn’t even know about
Are the majority chileans still socialist to this day?
@@lcdream4213Nope, socialists are seen as bad people in the cold war sense. Chile, day by day, becomes more and more right wing and even sadder, leans into fascism
@@LOLelpepe damn
@@lcdream4213 yeah it's so stupid, bc like always none of the people who hate socialism know how it works. They think socialism is when the government helps people
So Pinochet had more integrity than the EU... Interesting.
Happy Brexit Day
Why are libertarians consistently morons
@@marisanya well, right-libertarians
Libertarian? That explains your stupidity.
Simon! At 1 milly, you gotta do one of yourself!
They said they have no interest on doing one on him. You can stop asking now.
Agreed!
Look Rex, we know you have a hard-on for Simon. We all do. He's never going to do one of himself, so you have to do your own digging like the rest of us with huge hard-ons for Simon. Unfortunately, he uses Nord VPN. So far, I've discovered he has nice watches.
@@Victor.-.E Stay safe. Use Nord ;). I use it to access Skillshare while, while wearing my GlassesUSA glasses, while drinking a glass of wine from Bright Cellars. No doubt.
Simon: Pinochet was a good artist
My mind: There was a man whi was also interested on art... his name is hitl....
You know that you can say the name right? We're not in North Korea...
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There was a Tory party member interested in necrophilia and peodophilia. His name was jimmy saville. Doesn't mean theyre all sick fuckers though does it
wow, what an incredible mind you must have for making that extremely low-hanging connection. please, write some more comments about it. the world must know how good your brain is at making extremely easy connections.
@@DrummerMatt4253 u talking to me you sarcastic prick ?
Hahaha! What he could have done if he converted to scienctology.
Do a vid about Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov aka "Turkmenbashi" and Gurbanguly, both crazy leaders. Comparable to North Korea but replace nukes with natural gas
Good choice
Dude builds an ice palace in the middle of a desert...genius
@@CodytheHun123 Yeah, building an ice mansion in a place where temperatures exceed 38°C ( 110°F ), really smart, NOT!
I think you could pretty much do a composite of Central Asian dictators! Great suggestion through.
Oh yes, Simon, you HAVE to do one on the guy from Turkmenistan! Almost makes the Kim's look sane and normal.
Not a fair or balanced analysis. You fail to discuss the role of the country’s congress and the coup.
Tell us
@@johncarlisle2755
I wrote this up for another purpose, but it focuses on some of the reasons that Allende´s government was a threat to the Chilean people and the situation wasn't black and white. I thought maybe it would help you.
1) Congress, upon electing Allende president, did so on the condition that he sign a formal document declaring that he not bring the country into Socialism & Communism. I’m pretty sure it stated that such acts were grounds for removal from office too. (As Allende didn't achieve an absolute majority, the decision of who would be president fell to congress)
2) Allende was overstepping his authority to forcibly bringing Chile into a fully socialist and communist nation.
3) Left wing extremists were assassinating their political opposition throughout the time that Allende was in Power.
4) Congress and the courts declared that Allende was overstepping and requested that the military remove him from office. Meaning that in this case, the coup was legal and constitutional. (For example, would you say that it was illegal if Trump lost in his impeachment process, didn’t step down, and the military was forced to remove him? This is actually a pretty close parallel to what happened in Chile.)
5) When this decision was taken, there were arms being shipped from the Soviet Union and their puppet states in order to arm Allende’s army effectively initiating a civil war.
6) The Chilean economy was collapsing under Allende, there was a food shortage, and malnutrition was a real threat for many.
7) The justification for not having elections after the coup was that democracy had just failed to provide a government which adequately protected the population. This may not be enough to justify the removal of democracy, depending on where you stand. But, for many Chileans (maybe even a majority at the time), it was.
8) After like 18 years, and after a vote, Pinochet peacefully and willingly returned the country to democracy. This is something that I don’t think has ever happened under any other Latin American Dictatorship (even if it may have been overdue after 17ish years - this issue is still hotly debated in Chile).
9) While it is undeniable that Pinochet was brutal in his treatment of his political opposition, so was his opposition. Many here in Chile believe that Pinochet saved Chile from a worse fate, that being communism. This position is seconded by many who live in other Latin American countries where dictatorships haven’t relinquished power and the consequences of those regimes were much more dire (Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, etc…).
@@jonm3024 Hey, where did you find that Allende signed a formal document declaring that he not bring the country into Socialism & Communism? Can i have a link please? I would love to share that with my chilean family.
@@jonm3024 there's a lady I know from Chile.She describe to me was going in they declared Marshall law or similar came into there home said they needed only one vehicle took the other.Any bedrooms empty had to be used for others .Her family exiled to US I guess this was under Allende she didn't say but in that time period.
Strange aspirational take on Allende in this. Not one mention of the things his government did, no explanation for why a coup in a country with a long democratic tradition was successful and accepted. Maybe do a bit more on why Allende's government was not popular (same old communist story: land collectivization that was supposed to uplift the peasant classes did exactly the opposite, famine, political executions, etc. You get the idea)
And the idea that pinochet was in some way more heinous than other people of his type. His dictatorship was bloody, but resulted in democracy and one of the best economies in Latin America. Which is again portrayed in a negative light. Look, income inequality is an issue, but would you rather everyone be poor and starving and therefore there is no income inequality? Or would you rather there be a wealthy class, a middle class, a lower class, and a poor class? Under Allende they had all the corruption and violence, but none of the food, the prosperity, or stability of Pinochet's dictatorship, which eventually gave way to a stable democratic society with a functioning economy.
I love these, but this one seems a bit one sided.
Can you make a video about admiral general Aladeen?
Nah just kidding, but a vid about L. I. Brezhnev would be interesting.
Edit: Thanks for the Aladeens!
Admiral General Aladeen, good choice 👌😂
No seriously he should do aladeen
That would be a great April fools joke
Very aladeen choice
😆😆😆😆 Aladeen
5:04 That really was the worlds worst picture lol
This video did not answer what role Gus Fring played in the augusto pinochet regime 😞
obviously crack and other kinds of drug dealing.
Gus don't look like a Chilean at all. Also, the military officers are pretty picky with your family origins so is uncommon to find someone with dark skin i the high ranks.
@@dres4n Well, there are blacks in Chile too.
@@PawelSorinsky sure, but is very rare in the officers ranks during the dictadure
I think Gus was born during the dictatorship and there is no birth certificate or something like thar.
Make a vid about Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, man who led Finland througt ww2 or President Risto Ryti who took all the blame for allying Finland with Germany so others wouldnt need to suffer from the consequences
I'm a big fan of Simo Hayha the white death best Finnish sniper in the world
@@gamingwithsniperboinyc1993 they did a video on the white death.
Mannerheims military career is amazing. Aristocrat badass Hitler siding with. Also handels policy and politics amazing. National father of Modern Suomi-Finland
@@gamingwithsniperboinyc1993 check out TIK video on him.
@@chip9649 link?
Tito to Pinochet: Those are some rookie numbers, you got to pump this numbers up
Stalin and Mao say how cute boy.
I mean...
He did give free helicopter rides
Socialists: Free stuff
Pinochet: Free Helicopter rides
In fact it is capitalists that need free staff. Socialists need what they work for. Nice try fascist
George A Way to show your ignorance. Socialism is all about the free stuff. Moron
Free helicopter rides are great for socialists.
@@Maximilian-Robespierre Can you hear the helicopters rolling in?
@@RevolverOcelot79 If only someone had told Pol Pot, he got it so wrong
Could you cover Vasily Grossman? One of history's greatest war correspondents. Who reported the war from Stalingrad. All the way to Berlin.
Have you read Anthony Beevor's book of Grossman's WW2 diary?
🎶I NEED A PINOCHET🎶
Easy peasy. Move to Ukraine.
With you making biographics for all these dictators and monsters (and some other, more nice people), you could make a biographic about "El Presidente de Tropico" as an april fools' joke!
I showed this to a great friend of mine I met on a flight who is 92 years old and Chilean. He said he laughed the whole way through and said, let me guess a bunch of Marxist made this video...
@@Erl0sung get in the heli
@@Erl0sung did you just tell a guy who actually lived through what to just drop dead? Are you an idiot?
US: We are here to guarantee every country in the Americas holds free and democratic elections.
Chile: Cool, we want Allende.
US: ...
wat
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FUUUUUUKK?
(Insert joke about helicopter rides here)
Damn Itmike *FREE helicopter rides
(Insert free car ride joke here in order to counter the helicopter jokes)
You could go rail and trai.....
This comment was stoped due to its possible anti semetic implications.
Who's joking ?
It's exactly what leftists deserve
@@jasonhenry5by5 you righties deserve some explosive car rides.
I studied art, but have no fear people of the world; I got a degree.
Fleur Agnes actually passed Architecture School. There’s hope for your career yet.
While we are talking about Latin America how about a video on Argentinian president Juan Domingo Peron?
You mean the one who fucked Argentina's economy so bad that they are still screw for it even to this day and accepted Nazis and Fascist from Germany and Italy after WWII? Yep it would be interesting
He is not worth it
@@leonzoful I personally disagree but even from that perspective it would be an interesting video
Peron is a really divisive character in Argentina and the world. He'd be perfect to cover in a video on this channel.
@@GasparB123 My exact reasoning
You omitted one big thing about the 1988 referendum, Pinochet was so certain he was going to win that he actually let the remaining left-wing figures go on TV to speak for the 'No' side in a political debate. Ricardo Lagos represented Pinochets opponents in that debate and spent several minutes absolutely dominating the discussion and ripping Pinochet apart on his crimes. Watching it Pinochet was said to be 'climbing the walls' in rage but Lagos had become the figurehead of the opposition and he knew he couldn't disappear him without inciting mass riots
El dedo de Lagos
Que No
So, the horrible dictator let the opposition in media alive? what a monster
@@GBWallace In fact, he allowed all the opposition to publish anti-Pinochet magazines and newspapers. More than 50% were of that ilk. Only the communist party was absolutely illegal until 1989. All parties were suspended until 1988. The present is just misinformed or lying.
@@GBWallace He was so arrogant and sure he was going to win he didn't think it would matter, turns out it did
And Chile lived happily ever after...wait what?
@acammtt they are pretty much the same right now
@acammtt yeah Venezuela is facing decades of US economic war and political meddling and they're doing incredibly well surviving and providing when most other regimes would have collapses
I live in Chile, born in Chile and I can assure you that Venezuela is in a much worse situation than Chile
@@sufimuslimlion4114 Yeah. America is the whole reason that any country fails...keep believing that. Have you ever noticed that America's allies are rich? Have ever noticed that socialist countries are poor?
Vanities what? Chile’s economy was booming under Pinochet.
Whatever Pinochet did is the reason why Chile is one of the best countries in South America.
My dad lived through these events and emigrated into Australia with his mum and 4 siblings at the time. Pinochet is the reason why I've never met my grandpa. My grandma is half mapuche and half atacama, but was sent to retiro, one of those country towns the caravan of death drove through (retiro is also a place where the government forced indigenous people into). In 1978, Pinochet's forces kidnapped my dad, his brother and two of his sisters, his dad and my dad's grandpa. They forced my 10 year old father to watch his grandfather be hung, his sisters be raped and killed and his brother shot. He and his dad went through weeks of torture after that, and then were kicked out on the streets of Santiago. After being thrown around they survived miraculously in the warzone that was the streets of santiago at the time, hopped on the back of a truck going south and arrived in Retiro where they found my grandma, and started the immigration process to Australia.
Something many latin americans might relate to this, but the generational trauma passed down to me and my siblings in australia has been awful. My grandma was very against white people, especially french people, when she moved to australia, and got really mad at my dad for marrying my mum (my mum is anglo australian). The things my grandma has told me sticks with me. Things like "White people can always turn on you". Honestly, I think it's the reason why I don't surround myself with white people commonly, unless its my family (obviously).
I tear up whenever my dad tells me the stories. As a kid, I'd find my dad crying holding pictures of his siblings and grandparents and ask what was wrong but to think of the struggles he went through to get to where we are makes me so proud to be his child. Also how powerful my grandma is, which doesn't relate to this (she was taken from her family when she was 17 to try to "fit in with white people" because she is lightskin). She went through weeks of wondering if her family was killed.
Whenever I've gone back to Chile my dad brings up things he went through in specific areas, my favourite and hardest hitting story of his being when he arrived at Cerro Santa Lucia in santiago, where he felt at peace for the first time in months.
Unfortunately though, my dad's dad died of a heart attack at only 44, while still in his mother-in-laws house in Retiro. My dad has said this is because "A piece of his heart was ripped out in those weeks", referring to him watching three of his eight children murdered, as well as his father.
That's my relation to Pinochet, and my thoughts. have a great day/night
I'm so sorry for your family's pain and all they had to go trough. The wounds this f*cking monster (and his wife, who was probably as bad or worse) left in Chilean society are still bleeding. I don't remember if it was last year or the year before that, but I heard my father for the very first time, referring to what my grandad had to go through as torture, even being rushed to the hospital to stabilise him, and then back to prison for more torture. Before that I knew he had lived in exile, and kind of deduced he had been tortured, as he was arrested for being leftist, but it was never truly said out loud. My grandad was "lucky", as he survived and went into exile.
It freaking sucks that so many Chileans today are still denying everything, or worse, they recognize it, and still worship that m*therf*cker Pinochet as a savior of the country. Monsters all of them.
I surprised that he left out the name Paul Schaefer. He ran one of the most notorious death camps in Chile.
what ? david lettermans buddy?
It was a death camp with some brainwashed people living around it.
david lettermans band leader ran a death camp?
Still a lesser evil compared to communism
@@maximusmedia8412 Communism wants rights for the workers and the oppressed, is that a bad thing
The Comment Section is Epic.
And that @Biographics liked every Comment against Pinochet shows that he's a butthurt soycialist who distorts history to fit his personal narrative.
Frater ANPV BAiL-ShM highkey pinochet saved Chile his crimes are mild in comparison to Castro or Venezuela
@@gonzalodohrmanngareis2493 100% correct
Also communists aren't people
@@frateranpvbail-shm6912 based
@@gonzalodohrmanngareis2493 i don't think you can justify genocide no matter who you are
I find nothing ironic about Pinochet friendship with Thatcher at all. To me, it makes perfect sense.
Dan Harris amen - defeating communists is doing the lords work
@Mike Luke the phrase goes: better dead than red.
I’m glad Pinochet got to put that principle into action.
@Soumyakanti Panda any argument that starts with “so you’re saying” is a strawman
The Falklands is the only odd thing
@@foxbodyblues6709 you chose your nickname well.
>muh inequality 19:08
bruh
I know you’ve done 2 Roman emperors already but could you guys possibly do Constantine? He basically is the founder of Christianity in Europe. Rome went from persecuting Christians to making it the state religion.
LOL! Someone has been watching conspiracy videos I see. Religion for breakfast covered this. Constantine just decriminalized Christianity he did not make it the state religion. Stay off the tinfoil hat websites. Emperor Theodosius I made it the state religion in 391 long after Constantine. You're welcome.
Notifications are a blessing.
Yo I am so thankful for this video
I had a project that's due today and watching this video before it was a HUGE help
Not going to lie, Pedro Pascal's story of his family escaping Pinochet's Chile to the US.
So happy I did.
Pedro Pascal is a disgrace for our country chile, he represents those "leftards" who runaway as rats. Now he represents the leftards aka WOKEISM
The man knew how to use a helicopter, though!
Would you like to live in a country where anyone like you can be killed, and your body made disappear, and your whereabouts never revealed to your family, and your very existence denied, without any crime proven in a court of law? Oh, you think it would never happen to me, I am no communist. Most of the executed weren't communists either, many had no political affiliation and over 300 were children.
You don't have the least idea what you are talking about. But, if you are American, and Trump isn't expelled soon enough, you might know, in yourself, or in anyone who you love. Assuming you are capable of that emotion.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher yes...because I'm not a communist
@@AlphaFoxAdam Neither were a great many of the people he killed. Of course, none of it mattered, because Chileans vandalised his corpse after it was interred. They had to cremate him. Then his gravestone was vandalised too. The people he fought to "protect" hate him.
@@Eastcyning not all heroes...
@@AlphaFoxAdam ...get disowned by their own people and melted in a furnace?
Turning your subtitles on at 6:39 states that "Trying to win elections as a socialist was like trying to win Mr. Universe *when you look like a Biographics scriptwriter*" XD
Haha, yeah, this was in the original script. But I felt bad poking fun at someone ;)
your "Biographics" are so much better than Top Tenz in fact this is excellent well done Simon
So the moral of the story is: If someone sucks at everything but art, and they even end up failing at art, keep a very close eye on them because there is a high probability they will become a dictator.
High probability they will try and save their country from a Communist takeover
Start up the rotors!
Think the host needs a helicopter ride! Pinochet set Chile up for success
The Comments Section has Won🗣🗣
Long Live The Comments Section!
Death to Bolshevism
Chilean here.
My 4 grandparents all agreed that Pinochet saved the country, which was at the brink of communism at the time. Obviously, my 4 grandparents lived there and were there while everything went down, so they have a clear internal view of the facts. Same with my dad and mom. Under Allende, people were making kilometric lines to buy sugar, tea, and other basic necessities, only to get there and find nothing left because there wasn't enough of anything. If it wasn't for Pinochet, Chile would have easily ended up a Cuba 2.0. How do I know this?? because under Allende, Fidel Castro smuggled into Chile over 5,000 Cuban and Russian communists, ready for battle, who also smuggled thousands of weapons. They were going to do a communist takeover of the country anyways. I don't know about you, but prefer to have sugar in my tea, while not getting invaded by foreign communists at that. You sitting from the comfort of your home, making videos from your capitalist-based country, which gives you the opportunity to make money through an internet platform, would have never been able to do this under a communist regime. Also, you don't seem to be able to grasp what people in Chile went through during that time period. Chile was falling into a point of no return, and it wasn't gonna be a good one.
Fun Facts:
Poverty skyrocketed in Chile after Pinochet came in.
The economy collapsed massively TWICE.
After that he massively CENTRALIZED the economy to save it.
Also Allende had NO plans of taking over the country, that is an old lie from the cold war days we know to be false today.
Wow, that's a long way to say that you were brainwashed by your grandparents.
Oh yes why not have every democratic country taken over by a fascist CIA plant. Genius. If your grandparents support Pinochet then I'm sorry to break this to you but they were almost certainly fascists, or at the least members of the owning class who stood to benefit from his regime
You blame people for wanting basic human rights and treatment as communist enemies? Sorry you had to hear it from me but your family are actual facists, i'd be willing to bet you're quite well off economically in chile and that came thanks to the murder of thousands of nornal people who wanted a normal life
Mine also, I lived there then and this video is the common ignorant "well-researched" outsider view. It was a difficult situation and the guy had the huevos to do what needed to be done.
Do one on Rafael Trujillo (pretty please?)
Would be solid to see. Didn’t learn about him till I read a book called “The Dictators” by Jules Archer 1967.
Trujillo and Porfirio Rubirosa too...funny that you want Trujillo as I am Chilean and Domonican
Who?
It's worth noting that Chile's copper industry was kept nationalised and that one reason Chile's economy was terrible under Salvador Allende was that the Americas tried to screw it up by basically cut them off from loans and a lot of foreign trade. So when Chile got access to capital and more trade (so the copper the government owned could be traded) the economy improved. So that likely had a huge effect on its recovery
Pinochet is Evil dictator installed by USA that ofc ruined Chile for western agenda. Ez as that
Thats an interesting point.
Yeah, why would a capitalist government want to help out a communist/socialist one.
hahaha, Allende's bodyguard at 12:53 is using an AK47.... The Chilean military didn't use AK47s...
Did you watch this on mute
Those communist were armed to the teeth, they started violence in the country
He probably grabbed it off a dead commie that tried to kill a bunch of people. The dead traitor probably got the Kalishnakov through a KGB channel.
Allende's body guards where Cubans not Chileans so that explain something
@Dumisani Nkosi what are you trying to say? They guy at that timestamp isn't holding an FN FAL if that is what you are thinking... look at the curved mag.... not FN FAL...
the Chileans I have met think Pinochet was a hero
How many non rich chileans have you met? 🤔
It is also showing in the comments. Like Germans praising Hitler because of VW, the autobahns and the improved economy.
Go figure.
@@Sugarsail1 which brutal methods did Allende use?
I am genuinely curious. And if you think America wasn't busy trying to destroy the Chilean economy I have a bridge to sell you.
Because he was
@@Sugarsail1 the man whose regime tortured innocent girls and raped women was a hero?
Nice one! Being from Argentina, we have a tendency to focus too much on our own history and forget that things were also fucked in the region as well.
It should be said that as Allende had just 36,6% of the votes in 1970 election (less than 50,01%, or absolute majority), according to the Chilean Constitution needed to be confirmed as president by the Senate. So in order to get the vote of the Senate, Allende signed a document to the Christian Democracy party promising to be respectful to democracy and Constitution. But after being confirmed as president, Allende said in an interview that he had signed that document just for tactical reasons, because his main goal was to transform Chile from a liberal democracy into a socialist regime. So Allende was the real traitor in the story. He betrayed the Chilean democracy he had already promised to respect.
I will add some more information that is well known in Chile about other ideas of Allende. The title of his thesis for becoming a doctor was "Mental hygiene and delinquency" where he stated that jews and gypsies were prone to delinquency. Moreover he also proposes a massive sterilization for alcoholics and persons with mental problems. These ideas would seem very weird today, but in the year in which Allende presented his thesis seemed very advanced, the year was 1933! The same year in which Hitler won the elections and got the power in Germany. All this appears in the book "Salvador Allende, antisemitismo y eutanasia
" (published in 2005) by the Chilean historian and philosopher Victor Farias. Apart form that, there are other pieces of information about Allende's simpathies with the nazi, being president of Chile, Allende denied to Simon Wiesenthal the extradition of the nazi criminal Walter Rauff who at the time lived in the city of Punta Arenas in the south of Chile. So Simon, here you have more information for your biography of Allende.
stop trying to justify dictators wtf
Opino lo mismo ...deja de justificar al asesino. En 1933 las ideas racistas y de esterilización eran parte de un paradigma dominante. Después del holocausto dejaron de serlo. Este señor nacido 1940 Víctor Farias ha dedicado su vida a estudiar el nazismo y según él " derribar mitos" ....rencor, envidia, rivalidad política....en fin. Sr o Sra. Supongo que sabe que los países vencedores se pelearon a los científicos nazis, muchos países, ayudados por el Vaticano recibieron nazis. Latinoamérica es conocida por ser el punto final de la ruta de las ratas. Finalmente, veo en usted, un intento más de justificar lo injusticable. Feo, feo.
@@rxnlfr7664 Hartas falacias en su posteo. Primero científicos nazis no significa planificadores de muerte en serie, a esos no se los "peleó" nadie, y tampoco eran científicos, sino charlatanes criminales. Es curiosa su línea de división de ese "paradigma dominante" porque en ese mismo tiempo había mucha gente que se oponía a las justificaciones demagógicas del antisemitismo. Por ejemplo las miles de personas, incluyendo al Vaticano, que ayudaron de algún modo a esconder o trasladar a personas judías fuera del alcance nazi. Así que ese antes y después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial como evento para abrir los ojos frente al racismo antisemita es puro cuento y justificación de lo injustificable. Y sobre lo otro, es simple, en 1973 la gran mayoría de los chilenos queríamos vivir en democracia, no queríamos ser forzados a ser parte de ninguna revolución, tal como supongo usted mismo no querría vivir en estos momentos en la Venezuela chavista.
5:04 wow, my grandfather.
Just kidding, but is cool to find someone of my distant family in the history
El Pino8
Great man. Still revered in Chile.
Make a video on Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator or Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator during WW2, plz.
Franco "El Caudillo" lol I heard so much of him on Cuentame Como Paso
Rafa Krz I’m making a video about Leopoldo Galtieri currently, it’s coming out in a couple of weeks when I relaunch my channel!
Hey Biographics! Since you guys are doing some videos on South American controversial leaders. I’d love for you to look just north of Chile to Peru. The same year Pinochet stepped down Alberto Fujimori began running Peru. The controversies of his legacy (and his current status in house arrest) still send ripples through the country. It’s a juicy story. I think you guys might like it
Pinochet not stepped down, he call to a Referendum in 1988. This process was set up in the 1980's Constitution.
I find it quite funny how you dub Pinochet a monster yet were far kinder to Che Guevara and Castro who were equally as brutal.
More brutal, because chile became rich and free. look at cuba now.
@@Lukeor Exacly
So much bias and so little actual info. Wanna free helicopter ride?
Pinochet byl hrdina
What ARE you still doing in Chile. Ukraine has such marvelous career opportunities for the ex DINA torturer. 😂
A great man and a great leader. We desperately need a new General, like him, in Poland right now
A horrible man and even worse leader.
@@rappakalja5295 how so?
@@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622 He overthrew a democratically elected government, destroyed the democratic structures in Chile and established a fascist military regime, sold his country's land and property to American billionaires, destroyed unions and worker's rights, indebted his country to the IMF, drove over 40% of his country into poverty, caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people and created one of the worst refugee crises in 20th century Latin American history.
Basic history.
I recognise that Pinochet was all that you said; however, if you criticise the current situation in Venezuela today, you should speak about the tough times that Chileans that do not belong to the left had to endure under the allende's regime.
Those "tough times" are caused by US sanctions and frozen assets in US banks. The US hate socialism and will stomp out the fair treatment of humanity wherever it can
@@kasiar1540 there where no overall sanctions imposed on Chile, you ignorant twat
Exactly
2:41 Pinochet's father looks like Josef Mengele when Mengele lived in Brazil
his family was french in origin.
3000 deaths,so cruel-chairman Mao
@Spartan 506 Nah chief, Obama really likes helping the kids being treated in the Middle Eastern hospitals. He gave supplies, which just so happen to be sent by F-15s and UAVs.
@Spartan 506 UAV is a Drone.
Customs official father? Religious mother? A momma's boy? Mediocre student with a talent for art? BRO HE HAD ALL THE SIGNS THAT HE'LL BECOME A FUTURE DICTATOR
Thatcher was always a shocking judge of character
Rich Mitch,old milk thief Maggie was a real scumbag her self.
I guess communist murder factories are preferable.
That Guy “hey that guy’s gonna rob for 15000 dollars...”
Proceeds to rob the person for 10,000 dollars.”
Whether or not chile would have become a communist dictatorship isn’t known... (if u argue this point... can I also have tomorrow’s lottery numbers?)...
Allende was way more peaceful with and respectful of opposition figures.
This is why he did nothing while certain generals were OPENLY calling for him to be assassinated.
The opposition party may claim to support free speech, but make no mistake... they’d killed you if they had the chance.
Something smarter socialists and capitalists dictatorships learned.
The US was arguably extremely close to this reality under john adams, and during the civil rights movements.
Just say the opposition are criminals, who’s gonna prove it?...
This is why socialists have purges and why America today lists BLM as terrorists and why the most influential black panthers were shot in their sleep/died to bombs.
DB Cooper historically Marxist governments have killed off an average of 10% of the population of the countries they take over. Hence, communist murder factories. Allende NOT getting a chance to kill 10% of the population is a victory for Chile. In a choice of evils, a few thousands is preferable to hundreds of thousands.
A video that uses the term “red scare” is usually leftist propaganda. US foreign policy in Central and South America was a choice of evils and preventing Marxist slaughter was a legitimate goal.
@@procinctu1 So to prevent what idiots like you thought would be "Communist murder factories" they overthrew leaders to put dictators into power, who then killed millions and destabilized entire countries? That's the lesser of two evils? And the cold war era US was Red Scare 101. Anything left of a conservative was seen as a socialist/communist and was put on a hit list.
I would also be interested in reading your research for Marxist governments killing "10% of the population."
Pinochet was anti-Marxist and prevented Chile from becoming like Venezuela. Today Chile has one of best economies and standards of living in South America while Venezuela has one of the worst.
And I am absolutely sure that the southamerican miracle could never have been posible without human rights violations or a fat swiss bank account(yes, I am being sarcastic).
Confirmo desde Viña del mar
There’s a video by Lindybiege that tells the true story why Chile was a great friend to Margaret Thatcher
Which one? How do I find it?
"International Arrest Warrant"
No thank you.
I do see a some pro-socialist bias, but still a good video
@Ham HEAD yeah true it's probably more than just a bit.
Give simon a free helicopter ride
I think Simon needs to go on a long helicopter ride....
Yes.
I have recently read a biography of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald. He was an extremely fascinating character with an amazing career! I wanted to request a video about him specifically here because of his part in securing Chilean and Brazilian independence from Spain and Portugal. If I recall correctly, the Chilean government still lays a wreath upon his tomb in Westminster every year.
@La Verdad As is said.
The title of the video announced fairness and objective journalism...
Great man. Allende was running his country to the ground and Chile would've been in the same situation as Venezuela is today. Thanks to Pinochet, Chile is one of the few countries worth living in South America.
This is hilariously wrong. Pinochet was a nobody who became a mass murderer. Hardly a "great" man. Everything he was he owed to the CIA, from the manipulation of Allende's economy to the massive financial support he received to keep his failed inflationary policies from completely collapsing the Chilean economy. Chile is what it is today in spite of this monster, not because of him.
You should made one video about Victoriano Huerta! The "decena tragica" it's another amazing betrayal history, you will love it!
Pinochet nearly prevented Chile's national football from playing in the 1974 World Cup, after they qualified against the USSR, who withdrew because they claimed Santiago was a city under siege. The 2nd and final was supposed to be played at the National Stadium in Santiago, but was being used as a detention center where people were imprisoned, tortured, and executed. FIFA sent a delegation to the stadium, where they looked around and saw nothing irregular. The prisoners were hidden away while the delegation was present. The USSR national team was convinced otherwise and urged the game to be played elsewhere. FIFA delivered an ultimatum, to either game to Santiago or forfeit. The USSR ended up forfeiting and Chile qualified by default.
my grandfather was held at that detention center & games were played while prisoners we're kept below the rafters.
@@fuentinho416 this really wrecked Chile's moral to compete in the World Cup, despite that they qualified through default.
@@fuentinho416 Damn, that's fucked up
And one of his most loyal men was a man called Gustavo Fring😂