yakov_a_jerkov | Очень ЖЖ-разговоры про СССР напомнило

Дочитал "Distant Star" Боланьо. Этот отрывок о Чили до Пиночета меня почему-то очень рассмешил. По-моему, абсолютно то же самое, как бесконечные разговоры на тему "Вот в СССР Х было лучшим в мире! -- Да ты чего?"

[...] and the conversation turned to his years in Chile, the country as we remembered it, and the Chilean police force, which Romero (to my astonishment) regarded as one of the finest in the world. You're a fanatic and a chauvinist, I said to him over dessert. Not at all, he replied. When I was in Criminal Investigations, there was no such thing as an unsolved murder case. And the boys who went into Investigations were well educated; they'd all finished secondary school with good marks, then they had three years in the academy with excellent teachers. I remember the criminologist Gonzalez Zavala, Doctor Gonzalez Zavala, God rest his soul, saying that the two best police forces in the world, at least as far as homicide was concerned, were the British and the Chilean. I told him not to make me laugh.