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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Weekend at Fidel's
I am OK with Cuba for Cubans.
However, the Communist Castro regime nationalized US assets in Cuba that were bought legally from the Cuban people.
If the government came into your home; ordered your eviction and stole all of your property -- would you just go and harbor no resentment?
People invest their money in the US and Western Europe because there are laws that are above any government -- your investments are safe from arbitrary government confiscation.
Castro really failed his people -- for 50+ years Cuba had no international investment and survived off the scraps of the old USSR. Today there would be shiny Island Resorts in Cuba and real work. Today, ancient US made automobile roam Cuba's tattered streets. Cuba looks like 1960 America did -- I fail to see how the Cuban people have prospered. The Cuban people themselves are industrious -- Castro's government retarded Cuba's economic growth. Socialism can work with Capitalism -- Communism cannot -- we see the result in Cuba.
What good there is in Cuba could have evolved on a Socialist Democracy.
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unfair argument...the capitalism they knew at the time was very different than the one today...for example in the USA black people sat at the end of the bus...in the UK children worked with their parents in coal mines...the 3rd world knew capitalist expolitation all too well and had no illusions about the good will of the white man <---important point to keep in mind...so the people of the 3rd world did not know a good capitalism <---important point to keep in mind...
along came communism...new...idealistic...untested at the time...people tired of being slaves or serfs...the establishment was the enemy...communism was the peoples choice and they had a right to try...americans will not understand the brainwash in the USA is too strong
I understand that you do not mention US sanctions...it is completely detrimental to everything you wrote...but you can not teflon the USA of guilt in the situation in cuba...you imposed 50 years of economic terrorism upon them and I find it hilarious that anybody blames castro...
as for property confiscation it was a very different time...people were homeless and starving...my grandmother lost property to the communists...she had a huge house, she got a flat...the house was filled with homeless people, my grandmother went to visit them and help them finish the house...it was post WW2...you make it sound like commies put the $$ in their pockets...not so...capitalist propaganda would want you to believe otherwise...capitalism's worst fear is communism...so it did everything it could to undermine communism...eg. the sanctions...
castro is a hero...a freedom fighter...a symbol of resistance for small countries that stood up to the USA...the planet lost one of its freedom fighters and the world is poorer without him...we will continue to resist US invasion and fight for freedom inspired by the life and work of fidel castro...