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Judi Lynn

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4. Absolutely right. Propagandists always inform the uninformed that it's proof socialism doesn't work.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 02:03 PM
Aug 2021

They point to Cuba as a prime example of how and why socialism is deeply wrong for people, and NEVER acknowledge that any leftist leader is going to get hell on earth from the US until he has been destroyed, usually. The people of Cuba are unusually resiliant, and for decades there were enough Cubans who clearly remembered the US-favored bloody, torture-loving, death squad patron, Fulgencio Batista, for whom death squads like "Masferrer's Tigers" haunted the streets, snatching suspected leftists up and hauling them off to be tortured, sometimes cut into pieces and hung from trees, as in Santiago de Cuba.

When the Cuban people rose up against Batista, THAT really offended Washington, D.C. Washington never forgave them, only accepted the racist elites who flew here to avoid having to live in Cuba, expecting the US to grab the island back and return them to their lives of luxury in the midst of so much poverty and widepspread suffering.

Weird, isn't it?

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