There’s been plenty countries which managed to get economic growth without being ruled by a full death squad dictator.
Reminds me about these clowns who gloated about “free helocopter rides” for their left-wing opponents.
Pinochet restored the free market
By nationalizing copper mining?
traditional Western values
I didn’t knew that forced bestiality for political dissenters before throwing them from airplanes was ever a part of these “traditional Western values.”
“Pinochet, I believe, is the only dictator in Western contemporary history, during this century and the last century, who, 50 years after his coup, is still appreciated by 30 or 40% of a country’s population
Until the late 1960s, a majority of West Germans thought that, without WW2, Hitler would have been a great German leader; in the early 1950s, 10% thought that Hitler would be a leader whose greatness would be recodgnized by history. Similarly, around 2007, more than 30% of Russians thought that Stalin was an efficient manager.