If I'm not mistaken, neither late (that is post-Stalin) USSR nor its client states (this excludes N.Korea and China) did the kind of shit that USA-backed Pinochet did.

Like throwing people in the sea, torturing civians by thousands, bombing presidential palace. The world was becoming a safer place, even on the wrong side of Iron Curtain, but this Chile thing was really a step backward. The guy was caught in UK and held behind bars for the rest of his life for a reason.

Nope, I don't understand. What's the use of liberty and democracy when you end up worse than commies?