Posted on 09/04/2023 12:07:39 PM PDT by karpov
With so many Americans now saying that they prefer to live under socialism than capitalism, it’s good to get a strong reminder about the true nature of socialist regimes. I’ve just read a book that does so.
When I was much younger – in the 1960s and 70s – there was quite a lot of news about Cuba: Fidel Castro’s seizure of power, the Bay of Pigs debacle, the Cuban Missile Crisis, people escaping by sea (and many perishing in the attempt), suggestions that Castro was behind JFK’s assassination, and so on. Today, however, one hears rather little about Cuba, and what we do hear is largely leftist propaganda favorable to the country’s socialist regime, especially how it has supposedly achieved equality and high standards in medical care. Otherwise, few Americans give Cuba a thought.
Dr. Miguel A. Faria, Jr. seeks to enlighten us about the actual state of affairs in Cuba. His interest is deeply personal – as a teenager, he and his father escaped from Cuba in a small boat. After settling in the U.S., he went to medical school and became a neurosurgeon. Dr. Faria has written several books including America, Guns, and Freedom. His latest book is Cuba’s Eternal Revolution Through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage in which he relates much about Cuba’s history that needs to be known, and disabuses readers of the carefully cultivated idea that his homeland has turned into a tropical paradise due to socialism.
Let’s begin with the history. After the end of Spanish rule in 1898, Cuba began modernizing rapidly and by 1950 was among the most prosperous countries in Latin America. The Cubans adopted a constitution in 1940 that gave them stability and freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
“I’ve read a lot on Ayn Rand and her life was pretty sad...”
Not a lot has changed either.
There’s a passage in the Gulag Archipelago in which the local Bolshevik revolutionaries were described as to be made up of “the village lazy bones”.
I worked with a lady who came to the US from Russia back in the 80’s. Took her family about 10 years of applying, interviews etc. before they were allowed to go. At security on their flight out, they took a family album because it had pics of her husband in his military uniform and her grandmother’s weeding ring stating it belonged to the state. Asker her if she could have appealed & she said it would be starting all over with the process & who’s to say security wouldn’t take it again.
Watching Dr. Zhivago should be required in every high school.
Agree!
However, at that age I’m afraid at that age they would only concentrate on the love story part.
Beter movies
1984
As Far as My Feet Would Carry Me
The Way Back
From Out of the Ice
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