When I was in Chile exactly a year ago, I picked up a calendar for 1973. The dates went September 8, September 9, September 10, September 11, September 11, September 11, September 11... Chile still lives in September 11, 1973. The trauma is alive as if it were today in the morning. In a country that then had, what, 9 million people, there were something like 1500 torture chambers. That is not something that easy to live down.
I am not saying that should be the only thing. But these things should never be forgotten - or forgiven. At the Memory Museum in Santiago I bought a biography of one Miguel Krasnoff. The grandfather served the Tsar, the father served Hitler, the grandson went for Pinochet. History is not a series of unrelated vignettes.
We should remember them all. South America is not another world: and they are aware of us. Some time ago I've quoted from Timerman
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Date: 2025-01-08 05:37 pm (UTC)I am not saying that should be the only thing. But these things should never be forgotten - or forgiven. At the Memory Museum in Santiago I bought a biography of one Miguel Krasnoff. The grandfather served the Tsar, the father served Hitler, the grandson went for Pinochet. History is not a series of unrelated vignettes.
We should remember them all. South America is not another world: and they are aware of us. Some time ago I've quoted from Timerman
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We should be aware as well.