re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

Exactly. What he killed was a grossly corrupt regime propped up by a hugely corrupt capitalist society.
What he replaced it with is an entirely different argument.
Those who were at the bottom of either regime society probably didn’t notice much of a difference.

They did notice, I’m sure, since under Castro the organs of state repression became a good deal more efficient.

And its worth remembering how many people fled Cuba rather than remain under Castro.

The Bastista regime was rotten, but what followed really was worse. Fidel and Raul Castro are not heroes. They’re assholes, its just that when they came to power they were Moscow’s assholes.