Passions according to Pinochet

50 years ago, on September 11, 1973, in Chile there was one of the most dramatic and historically significant coups d'etat of the XX century. Military led by Augusto Pinochet overthrew the president-socialist Alyende Salvador, and in the country for decades dictatorship was established. Thousands of Chileans became mode victims, tens of thousands passed through prisons, about one million appeared in emigration. Thus for one Pinochet — the bloody dictator, and for others — the creator of an economic miracle. newspaper "Kommersant" decided to remind why there was a revolution as military then struggled with dissidents and rescued economy, than ended...