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# Collapse of Socialist 'Model'The Soviet policy vis-a-vis Chile emphasised cooperation in the political field, the forcing of an arti US front with Chile, Peru and Cuba, and expansion of trade and aid relations while ro fraining from polemics and interfering in Chile's Internal affairs (mainly through its influence over the Chilean Communist Party). The Chilean Communists were given moral and material support for widening the base of support of the regime, but it made no difference to the final outcome. The weakness of the Allenda regime, its fateful Internal contradictions, oficial connivance in the arming and violence of the ultra-left, the Weimar-type inflation and food shortages, the groving political polarisation and violence, and the fate fut alienation of the armed forces were the do-cisive conditions that triggered the coup d'état that led to Aliende's downfall and replacement by a militery junts on 11 September, 1973.Moscow was deeply disturbed but not especi ally surprised. TASS admitted on 20 September 1973 that the "Chilean experierice was bitter and dramatic," and Fidel Castro declared that he was 'vory upset by events in Chile" (the now military junta had immediately broken oll relations with Havana). Moscow savered diplomatic relations with Santiago and withdrow its ambassador and embassy staff because of alleged persecution of Soviet officials by the Junta. After less than a week in power, Chila's naw mliitary government began to teal the full blast of Sovint displeasure and frustration, expressed in a well-orchestratad and sustained propaganda campaign aimed at Isolating and discrediting the regiono.The Soviet media accused the junta of "per-socuting left-wingers with unparalleled cruelty" (Moscow Radio, 13 September 1973;. Thera were reports in Pravda on 26 September that "the streets of Santiago were flowing with biccd" and the radio spoke of "tens of thousands of Chilean democre:s" killed. Salvador Allende was alternatively reported to have been "murdered in coldWASHINGTON POST28 August 1974# Argentine# Manager# MurderedBUENOS AIRES-Gun men kilied the labor rela-tions manager of a French owned auto plant in Cor. doba yesterday, and s dent Maria Estela Peron spoke out against the recent "cowardly and mercenary assassinations" in Argentina.The extreme leftist Pero ist Armed Forces cline responsibility for theath of IK1 Renault offical R. cardo Goya, 55, sayi it was "the Peronist workers' answer to the enemies o! our class."A two-month zlordown at the Renault plant climaxed Monday with ouster of left. Ist leaders of the auto un Jon. Workers hattled police last night on the streets of Cordoba.Mrs. Peron, in her first speech from the palace balcony that her late husband, President Juan D. Peron of ten used as a rostrum, declared:"Many people link that because I am a wornan I cannot rule... but with this fragile appearance I have committed anyself." Her ile-runciation of the political khnes came in a talk earlier with provincial gover nois.blood" or to have died a hero's death, resisting the rebels to the very ead. Allende's residenco was alleged to have been "wiped off the face of the earth." The junta was shooting at women and children in an attempt to intimidate the people. On. 29 October TASS indignantly blamed the CIA. Chidean "reaction" and "Arnerican monopolies" for organising the military coup. And according to a Moscow broadcast even Leonid Brezhnev, not known for his devotion to Western democ. racy, expressed horror at the "monstrous, com. pletely open violation of a country's constitution, the unceremonious flouting of the democratic traditions of an entire nation."The overthrow of the Allende government was a bitter but not entirely unexpected setback for Moscow's united front tactics in Latin America, and had adverse repercussions for Marxist parties elsewhere in the West. Cornmunists and Socialists in France and italy who had earlier pointed to Chile as a model of the peaceful trans-ition to socialism moved to disengage themselves from the Allende disaster. Instead of leading to socialism, united front tactics in Chila ushered in a period of unparalleled political violence, encrmous suffering for Chila's workers and middie class, and the worst economic crisis in its history.Sovint designs for Chile to serve as tho van. guard of the anti-US front in Latin Arnerica ended in a complete fiasco and left a deep impression on the non-Communist political partias and the armed forces in the region. It reminded them of the grave risks of entering into an alliance with totalitarian parties. Despite protestations to the contrary, Marxist governments are driven in-exorably to violate pledges to uphold the con-stitution, to destroy the private sector of the economy, and ultimately to install a totalitarian dictatorship.Authoritative statements of the Chilean Communist Party's position under the Altence regime can be found in Labarca's Corvalan 27 Mores and Luis Corvalan's Camino da Victoria, (Santiago, 1971).NEW YORK TIMES28 August 1974# SPARSE AUDIENCE# HEARS MRS. PERONOnly a Few Thousand Attend Her First Public RallyBy JONATHAN KANDELLSperial to The New YorJuan Domingo Perón, had drawh scores of thousands of: supporters on numeroUS OCCAsines.The event was marred hy the: Governmen's mounting proת Swims with leftoving industrial workers in Cordoba, 430 miles northwest of the capital.Early this more deri-ified terrorists gunned down the labor relations manager of Ika-Renault, a leading car manufacturer in Cordoba. as helBUENOS AIRES, Arg. 27- drove to the main plant that. 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