Posted on 11/27/2016 6:38:30 AM PST by C19fan
Everybody is equal when they’re dead.
Is this the same Fidel Castro who called Obama a stupid monkey?
And how many in his inner circle were black?
How much political power do blacks have there?
If indeed Castro was a champion of racial equality, that would put him a step above American progressives.
But was Batista actually a mulatto?
Castro was an equal opportunity opressor
The is a distinction between words and deeds. Leftists are great with words-”THE MEDIA,”and “MOVIES” but are murderous tyrants with their deeds.
Well stated!
:-)
He was typically Spanish. As in Mexico and most Central American countries, the Spaniards rule as the mestizo and indian populace is ruled.
And in this case Castro was hard core commie to boot.
He was mostly Caudillo, “commie” was the suit he wore so the western liberals would support & adore him!
Mass killings occurred under some Communist regimes during the twentieth century. Estimates of the death toll vary widely, depending on the methodology used. Scholarship focuses on the causes of mass killings in single societies, though some claims of common causes for mass killings have been made. Some higher estimates of mass killings include not only mass murders or executions that took place during the elimination of political opponents, civil wars, terror campaigns, and land reforms, but also lives lost due to war, famine, disease, and exhaustion in labor camps. There are scholars who believe that government policies and mistakes in management contributed to these calamities, and, based on that conclusion combine all these deaths under the categories “mass killings”, democide, politicide, “classicide”, or loosely defined genocide. According to these scholars, the total death toll of the mass killings defined in this way amounts to many tens of millions; however, the validity of this approach is questioned by other scholars. In his summary of the estimates in the Black Book of Communism, Martin Malia suggested a death toll of between 85 and 100 million people.[1]
As of 2011, academic consensus has not been achieved on causes of large scale killings by states, including by states governed by communists. In particular, the number of comparative studies suggesting causes is limited. The highest death tolls that have been documented in communist states occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, in the People’s Republic of China under Mao Zedong, and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. The estimates of the number of non-combatants killed by these three regimes alone range from a low of 21 million to a high of 70 million.[2][dubious – discuss] There have also been killings on a smaller scale in North Korea, Vietnam, and some Eastern European and African countries.
Cuba Archive President Maria Werlau says the total number of victims could be higher by a factor of 10. Project Vice President Armando Lago, a Harvard-trained economist, has spent years studying the cost of the revolution and he estimates that almost 78,000 innocents may have died trying to flee the dictatorship. Another 5,300 are known to have lost their lives fighting communism in the Escambray Mountains (mostly peasant farmers and their children) and at the Bay of Pigs. An estimated 14,000 Cubans were killed in Fidel’s revolutionary adventures abroad, most notably his dispatch of 50,000 soldiers to Angola in the 1980s to help the Soviet-backed regime fight off the Unita insurgency.
Oh Lordy....some forms of stoooopid just can’t be fixed
It’s true. Other than his own elite supporters, Fidel wanted blacks, whites, and Hispanics all to be dirt poor.
LOL!!!! GMTA.
It is going to be so fantastic to see him leave!
The New York Daily News is indistinguishable from the old Daily Worker. It is a rallying point from America haters and old dumb ass Democrats too stupid to realize it is they whom the NYSW hates not just Republicans. The NYDW is big in nursing homes.
University of Florida, late 1960s, the Chemical Engineering Department had several students who escaped form Castro. One spent time in a Cuban prison, captured in Bay of Pigs betrayal.
No nice words for the butcher. Mostly, it was “cabron”, “hijo de puta” and “maricon”.
Eh?
Take a look at the guys in charge in Cuba and high ranking party officials.
Notice a certain....oh how shall I put it..... lack of diversity?
Notice there are no females at all?
(BTW read Eldridge Cleaver's "Ice and Fire" for an interesting look at what it was really like in Cuba for the Black Panthers)
Eldridge Cleaver was the best example of how to cure somebody’s liberalism. Force them to spend a year in Cuba.
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