⭐️ Only by riddling me with bullets will they be able to stop me from carrying out the people's programme... On September 4, 1970, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile 🇨🇱 President Allende's coming to power was perhaps the brightest and most vivid page in Chile's political history. Popular mobilization and the unity of all progressive forces around the most resolute and consistent candidate of the Socialist Party brought about an unprecedented upsurge in the social sphere: workers' wages rose by 40%, a system of public education and health care was introduced, and local communities received official protection. 🤑 Allende stepped on the throat of the North American capitalists. For almost its entire independent history, the country had been a source of saltpetre and later copper for them. Governments changed, dictatorships appeared and collapsed, but US interests in Chile remained untouchable. In Allende they saw for the first time a real threat to their domination, and therefore they used all their strength to overthrow him. The crisis of the Chilean economy, for which Pinochet's supporters blame the socialists, is the result exclusively of US sanctions and CIA subversive operations. North American banks stopped issuing loans to Chilean companies, and exports, which for decades had been aimed at the US market, were cut off. Chilean business was given a condition: either you eliminate Allende or you are left without money. People without a homeland chose Pinochet. 🕊 President Allende's main mistake was his romantic conviction that socialism, for which he died with a rifle in his hands, could be built exclusively by peaceful means. He did not carry out large-scale nationalization, did not expel transnational capital from the country, did not create alternative institutions of power, limiting himself to half-measures. Allende undoubtedly proved that bourgeois elections can bring socialists to power, but socialism cannot be built through them. #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN