Jeremy Maddux’s Reviews > Augusto Pinochet: The Life and Legacy of Chile’s Controversial Dictator > Status Update

'Weeks before his death, he insisted, “Today, I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.… I assume full political responsibility. If anyone should ask for forgiveness, it was the Marxists, communists.”

He's not entirely wrong.

“The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.…" - Pinochet being truthful before inevitable corruption of power warped his mind.