Chris Doss writes:>
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> I did not say I felt more sympathy for Mussolini's Italy than Castro's
> Cuba. I said the former was probably less repressive than the latter.
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Which at least implies more relative sympathy for the regime judged to be
"probably" less repressive. In fact, the repression conducted by Mussolini's
paramilitary blackshirts and the Italian fascist state was aimed at the
mass-based trade unions and socialist parties while the Cuban repression was
directed, for the most part, against a much smaller number of supporters of
the old regime and of US efforts to isolate and strangle the country and
roll back the social gains of the 1959 revolution.
A political neophyte in Chile, noting Chris' comment above, might have well been inclined to support the pro-fascist Pinochet junta as a "lesser evil" against the pro-Cuban government of Salvador Allende and the workers, peasants, and students who supported it.