Talk:Luis Corvalán

Luis Corvalán is currently a Politics and government good article nominee. Nominated by Chetsford (talk) at 23:02, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

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Short description: Chilean politician (1916–2010)

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Would not something about the Allende government and the PCC's role in it be just slightly relevant to this article? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 10:25, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Place of birth

I think that Mr. Corvalan was born in Puerto Montt, 300 miles south of Tomé. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.180.26.147 (talk) 15:29, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 01:09, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Corvalán (pictured, foreground) with Erich Honecker in 1977

... that the anti-Pinochet dissident Luis Corvalán (pictured) had his appearance surgically altered by Soviet doctors before returning to Chile?

ALT1:... that, in 1975, the KGB planned an attack on Chile's Dawson Island to rescue the anti-Pinochet dissident Luis Corvalán (pictured)?

ALT2:... that, when KGB officers presented a plan for a Soviet invasion of Chile to rescue Luis Corvalán (pictured), Kremlin leadership looked at them as if they were crazy?

Source: "The Soviets also assisted top PC leaders in returning to Chile, providing Corvalán (a well-known public figure) with plastic surgery, and helping in the development of documentation and in the logistics of their return." [1]

"Shmelev’s story is also surrounded by speculation: he’s been called the USSR’s “secret plastic surgeon”, suspected of working for the country’s secret services, and his unexplained death in 1986 (from blunt force trauma to the head) was rumoured to have been connected to the plastic surgeries which Shmelev had carried out for the KGB. Several journalistic investigations have also claimed that it was Shmelev who carried out the rumoured plastic surgeries on prominent Chilean communist Luis Corvalan when the latter found refuge in USSR after being freed from the jails of Augusto Pinochet." [2]

"Corvalan lived in Moscow with his wife and daughters until 1988 when Russian secret service agents helped him get back to Chile clandestinely via Argentina, after plastic surgery and with a false name and CV. The restoration of democracy the following year allowed him to come out in the open." [3]

Source for Dawson Island: [4]

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5x expanded by Chetsford (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 161 past nominations.

Chetsford (talk) 01:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Article is long enough. The hook is interesting and cited in the text but there are several citation needed tags throughout the prose that need to be addressed. Additionally, this article is too old to fall under the "new enough" criteria. It could meet the "expanded fivefold" criteria, but isn't quite there yet. The article was at 5,149 bytes at the beginning of expansion and would need to be at 25,745. It is currently at 24,735 bytes, so it's not far off; maybe an expansion on the early life section? Krisgabwoosh (talk) 06:19, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Krisgabwoosh - thanks very much! I've made these updates to the article. Please let me know if I've missed anything. (Also, I added one alt hook). Chetsford (talk) 06:56, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good now! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 22:48, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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SilkPyjamas (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SilkPyjamas - the copyedits look great! Thanks very much! Chetsford (talk) 19:42, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are very welcome! SilkPyjamas (talk) 19:46, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]