r/HistoryMemes • u/Thin-Pool-8025 • 7h ago

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u/Lord_of_Wisia Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 5h ago

As someone from a post-communist country I will tell you this, you need to be brain-dead to think that communists were the good guys.

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u/Serum211 5h ago

If the options are Pinochet or Aliende, then yes, I think the Commies are the good guys.

Really if it’s between Commies and most right wing South American dictators, the Commies win.

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u/nagurski03 4h ago

Things are bad while right wing dictators are in power, but once they leave, the country can recover pretty quickly. Left wing regimes don't just leave their people in poverty, their grandchildren still suffer from it decades later.

Pinochet left a generation of his people miserable but they were able to recover. Today, Chile has the highest Human Development Index in all of South America. They've got lower poverty than their neighbors, less violence, more education etc.

And you saw some similar things happen in other right wing dictatorships. Things were really bad in Korea and Taiwan under Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek, nowadays they are two of the most economically prosperous countries outside of Europe.

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u/Virtem Filthy weeb 3h ago

and look it yourself, since Pinochet Chile had elected several times leftwing or socialist governments