His dad would listen to Allende's last speech on cassette and drink by himself in the basement.
Now that's a vibe I can get behind.
People who were angry about that were also angry about: Germany 9/11 (which is on 9th of November), 1989 the wall falls due to the speaker for the central committee saying: "Everyone is allowed to cross the border without applying for visa first, [after being questioned about when it starts he says] to my knowledge immediate, now."
This led to many people visiting West Berlin, breaking down the wall and the sad part: The annexation of the East German part to the BRD even though 3/4 of the GDR people didn't want that to happen but just a more democratic socialism.
Original audio [in German obviously]
3/4 of the GDR people didn’t want that to happen but just a more democratic socialism.
Link? Genuinely curious
The link is one that is okay, but there is vast research, Of course the public conscious, the parliamentary conscious shifted and the "first free elections" (read the first with mass advertised elections semi Brexit style) were counted as marker that the unification was the goal of the people. However the joining of the GDR into the FRG was a thing that happened cause of political pressures, from the parliament/executive and the big players in the cold war - make no mistake here.
The people who were for democracy or democratic socialism - were sidelined.
To this day liberals will claim that Pinochet's coup was a purely Chilean affair that the US had no direct involvement in or prior knowledge of.
They base that on that one phone call between Kissinger and Nixon. Assuming those two didn't actually know about any foul play by some weird chance (as if they hadn't had their hands poking around Latin America beforehand), it never occurs to Libs that a national organ can act of its own accord.
Yep, whenever you need to demonstrate how thin of a line there is between neoliberals and fascists, just look at how many neoliberals will outright praise Pinochet.
:kitty-cri: :deeper-sadness:
Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever.
They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.
:sankara-shining: :sankara-salute:
Well, a communist will probably win the next Chilean presidential election, so for once we have something to be optimistic about.
I legit cry every time I listen to it. It is a good thing that the speech was recorded
