Allende Friends Some Quotations Upon Stalin s death in 1953 Chilean Communists held a Homage to Stalin in Santiago s Baquedano theater Salvador Allende declared that Stalin was a banner of creativity of humanism and an edifying picture of peace and heroism Everything he did he did in service of the people Our father Stalin has died but in remembering his example our affection for him will cause our arms to grow strong towards building a grand tomorrow to insure a future in memory of his grand example In January 1971 his minister Carlos Altamirano boasted that We re following the example of the Cuban Revolution and counting on the support of her militant internationalism represented by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara Armed conflict in continental terms remains as relevant today as ever Hear me loud and clear We will employ revolutionary violence In the final analysis only armed conflict will decide who is the victor asserted his governmental ally Oscar Guillermo Garreton Without the complete destruction of the bourgeois character of the state we can not march on the path of socialism The class struggle always entails armed conflict Understand me the global strategy is always accomplished through arms His deputy economic minister Sergio Ramos noted mid 1973 It s evident that the transition to socialism will first require a dictatorship of the proletariat We have no choice asserted Chilean Communist Volodia Teitelboim but to act with resolution and a civil war is not a careful affair It draws targets on both the political and the apolitical Luis Corvolan declared We have never considered the path of the Chilean Revolution to be exclusively an electoral one All above quotes and incidents are fully documented in La Agresion Del Oso Intervencion Sovietica y Cubana en Chile by Gonzalo Rojas Sanches a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at Notre Dame who heads the History Department at Chile s Catholic University