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year s/b 1975 not 2009
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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An essential piece of historical document that should be shown in schools everywhere in the world, about the rise of fascism in Chile and the power of people's resistance against the efforts of a reactionary bourgeoisie that used dishonest means to overthrow a legitimate government.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/14/23
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Historic documentary is riveting from start to finish.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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"Like writing history with lightning," as Woodrow Wilson once put it. Guzman delivers a harrowing blow-by-blow of the period immediately leading up to the '73 coup, the coup itself, and the period immediately following the coup, all with remarkable, how-did-they-get-that footage of events as they were occurring.
Part 1, in particular, runs the gamut, beginning with revolutionary optimism and ending with... oh, man, I can't even begin. Astonishing, disturbing, that's what it is.
Part 2 is a bit more repetitious: as the nation is divided by the extreme right-wing National Party's machinations, discourse is reduced to sloganeering, sound bites, and smugly proffered opinions masquerading as fact. (Sound familiar?) It all ends with the infamous coup d'etat, the institution of a military tribunal as the heads of state (televised, with some truly frightening cognitive dissonance/doublethink on display i/r/t "democracy"), and the systematic hunting and slaughter of the proletariat.
There's also a Part 3 that documents the aftermath of the coup. I've not seen that yet.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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An epic, outstanding examination of class struggle. A demonstration of the creativity, responsibility, humanity of the proletariat and the destructiveness, irresponsibility, inhumanity of the bourgeoisie (i.e. the "mummies"--"Wrecking the country and getting well paid to do it!"). Absolute, damning proof that the bourgeoisie (agents of capitalism and imperialism) don't respect their own official political, legal, economic rules, that they don't really value freedom, democracy, or even "homeland". Next time smash the bourgeois state (parliament, the judiciary, the military, the universities, the media--depending of course on circumstances).
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/24/23
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Tim G
Wow this is long. Two hours about the struggle of the workers might have been okay, 5.5 hours is just too much. And, amazingly, there isn't enough context provided in those many hours, just talking and talking and talking.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
06/03/10
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