Any ways for Soviets to intervene during Pinochet coup?

I doubt the Soviets would want to. An intervention would only lead to American counter-intervention in support of the coup, and escalate the whole affair. The Chilean UP government was never really that close to the USSR anyway for the Soviets to care enough. The best chance to end the coup militarily would have been to have a non-military armed force ready to defend the government against a coup, like a Spanish-civil-war type militia. IIRC there were actually some suggestions about creating something like this in the weeks leading up to the coup, but Allende rejected the idea.
 
I do agree, my first thought was to use one of the GSFG airborne units, but :happyblush actually there were none of them in the GDR. All of soviet airborne infantry were stationed in the Baltic states or near the Ryazan.

So, without any german-based immediate standby forces this controversial counter-coup would be buried in development hell, maybe weeks of drilling. No chance to change anything at this stage.
Yeah cos a Soviet Airborne Division flying across NATO airspace is just going to happen. And Pre positioning major forces in Cuba is sort of off the table as well.
 

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Yeah cos a Soviet Airborne Division flying across NATO airspace is just going to happen. And Pre positioning major forces in Cuba is sort of off the table as well.

I was wondering about a timeline where SU is able to launch campaigns like 1989 anti-Noriega 'Just Cause'.
 
I was wondering about a timeline where SU is able to launch campaigns like 1989 anti-Noriega 'Just Cause'.

For a soviet Just Cause they need a country which is a lot closer to their bases then Chile is. Deploying to Chile from the soviet union would be a bit of a chore, and probably take up almost all of their heavy lift and A2A refueling capacity for it to be even considered. Sending anything by ship, well by the time they got down there it would be over...

Besides, for that entire region the USSR security services got their information from the Cubans, or official contacts, for preference. The Cubans were much more inclined to sparking off random revaluations as a matter of policy, so if you want to coupe to have issues its a better idea to have the Cubans start arming a workers militia before the coupe with the intent of coupeing Allende from the left. Altamirano and the parliamentary parts of the party were certainly pushing for a more leftist approach, one that Allende was not comfortable with, in the days before the coupe. Given that both Beijing and Moscow had pretty much decided that Chile's credit was no longer any good before the coupe... well perhaps Moscow would have been interested in fixing that.
 
Allende did pay a visit to Moscow in 1972 to ask for aid but the Brezhnev government was actually unimpressed by him. After Allende left, Brezhnev said something like "This regime is doomed anyway". In other words, the Russians would have cared less about Allende in contrast to Cuba and even the DDR, which allowed pro-Allende Chileans into their country.
 
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