Cynical Swap
Socialist Press1977 1977-01-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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The main architect of the sordid deal in which Soviet Secretary Brezhnev and Chilean dictator Pinochet swapped the most famous of their thousands of political prisoners, was the United States government, which acted as go-between.
Kissinger and his successors hope to use the deal as a basis for the international economic rehabilitation of the Chilean dictatorship.
The event has predictably produced waves of liberal euphoria and Stalinist self-congratulation.
This hypocrisy is designed to obscure that it is Stalinism which bears the political responsibility for the imprisonment of both Soviet biologist Bukovsky and Chilean Communist Party leader deal to political extreme For the US cynical which nothing of the prisoner Chile an Luis Corvalan.
It is Stalinist repression in the USSR which has kept Bukovsky illegally jailed and in 'mental asylums' for ten years; it was Stalinist class collaboration in Chile which paved the way for the successful coup by the military dictatorship which has kept Corvalan in jail and concentration camps since 1973.
For Brezhnev himself this is no problem. Bukovsky's release and expulsion has not been mentioned in the Soviet press. And internationally Brezhnev is using the try to identify all his prisoners with the right wing.
Brezhnev, Pinochet and government the deal. is a diplomatic manoeuvre has done absolutely • to advance the interests thousands of political who remain both in d in the USSR.