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Castro implemented a literacy campaign, which is a good thing in a vacuum. Mussolini made the trains run on time.
Neither acknowledgements are endorsements of the horrible things that both men perpetrated on their citizens.
Castro`s predecessor murdered 20,000 in the 7 years preceding the revolution but that was okay because he wasn`t a commie. Not many Castro haters could name his predecessor.
The left has been the source of the 99% of the genocide and misery of the 20th century. However, given the keen sense of revisionist history and ignorance of facts, the left continues to pine for a Marxist state.
The rest of us can read history and do not have to experience such horrors first hand. I do not need to directly experience the fact that if one puts your hand in a fire, it will get burned; reading about it suffices for most of us.
Castro`s predecessor murdered 20,000 in the 7 years preceding the revolution but that was okay because he wasn`t a commie. Not many Castro haters could name his predecessor.
Batista was not a good person-but he wasn't the butcher that Castro was.
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In 1958, Cuba was a relatively well-advanced country by Latin American standards, and in some cases by world standards.[93] On the other hand, Cuba was affected by perhaps the largest labor union privileges in Latin America, including bans on dismissals and mechanization. They were obtained in large measure "at the cost of the unemployed and the peasants", leading to disparities.[94] Between 1933 and 1958, Cuba extended economic regulations enormously, causing economic problems.[80][95] Unemployment became a problem as graduates entering the workforce could not find jobs.[80] The middle class, which was comparable to that of the United States, became increasingly dissatisfied with unemployment and political persecution. The labor unions supported Batista until the very end.[80][81] Batista stayed in power until he was forced into exile in December 1958.[96]
Fidel Castro shed blood on a scale unimaginable in American terms. His butchers executed perhaps 15,000 prisoners, according to academic estimates cited by Wikipedia:
British historian Hugh Thomas, in his study Cuba or the pursuit of freedom[22] stated that "perhaps" 5,000 executions had taken place by 1970,[21] while The World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators ascertained that there had been 2,113 political executions between the years of 1958–67.
Professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, Rudolph J. Rummel estimated the number of political executions at between 4,000 and 33,000 from 1958–87, with a mid range of 15,000.
That was in a country of 7 million. In per capita terms, that's the equivalent of about 680,000 executions in the United States of America with our population of 318 million. What's 680,000? The entire population of Denver or Seattle. Imagine taking every man, woman, and child of a major American city and murdering them. That's the scale of Fidel Castro's crimes.
The reason that people don't know much about Castro's predecessor is that the butcher has been dictator of Cuba longer than most people have been alive.
Yet here we are today with American youth clamoring for the ideology because their contaminated professors told them how great it is, and that America is evil as founded.
The left has been the source of the 99% of the genocide and misery of the 20th century. However, given the keen sense of revisionist history and ignorance of facts, the left continues to pine for a Marxist state.
Stalin was behind it. Why? There’s a bunch of reasons, and none of them are good.
That 10 million number is probably dubiously high. Still, there were at least a few million dead.
In any case, Ukraine is part of the European Bloodlands...a region that is synonymous with mass death on a biblical scale. The Ukrainians would inflict the same misery on its Jewish population as collaborators after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union.
Excellent post. Bonus points for writing all that in the small hours.
Castro`s predecessor murdered 20,000 in the 7 years preceding the revolution but that was okay because he wasn`t a commie. Not many Castro haters could name his predecessor.
Nor do many people know about the camps he sent all the gays to or what happened to the first president of Cuba after the revolution.
First comes the revolution....then comes the consolidation of power by removing the co-conspirators...for the people.
I read a great book on what Stalin did to Ukraine. It's beyond words. Wiped out their culture, language and all the best people...then continued wiping.
The thing is, this wasn't limited to Ukraine. The Russians "ethic cleanse" pretty much everywhere they touch. The recent wars in Chechnya were about the same thing. They already "succeeded" in many areas but most people will never know since now "ethic Russians" live there.
It's White Nationalism and Christianity (yes, the Church has a lot to do with it -especially now - as they share power with Putin) gone mad.
One can look at the results and determine if they like the Russian Way. It appears the answer is YES for many American Nationalists.
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