You are obviously too young to remember the USSR when communism was in place and cannot possibly understand that what they have today is far better.
Certainly, the Russian are better that under Stalin, but undoubtedly far from being a status to be envied for.
In Cuba’s case we have indeed a brutal Stalinist regime frozen in time for over 56 years. Castro’s have killed and imprisoned more Cubans that during the worst of the Stalin terror era in relation to its population.
It is a fact that Castro has sent more than 20,000 Cubans to death at the “paredón” (firing squads) and that he is responsible for the death at sea of more than 40,000 men, women and children who fled the Cuban hell in fragile makeshift rafts preferring certain death at the Florida Straits rather than continue living in slavery. Castro is also responsible for the imprisonment and torture of over 500,000 Cubans (including children) during his 56 years of tyranny.
According to the best world authority in Cuba’s History, English scholar Hugh Thomas, referring to the Cuban tragedy, (The Spectator, 7/12/1986) he affirmed that: “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there are yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares’ account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of ‘life’ in Manthausen. Nor should one forget that the brutalities in Nazi Germany lasted at most 12 years and the gross cruelties in the Auschwitz camp continue for four years.”
It is despicable that Obama embraced and legitimized the most brutal tyranny in the history of this hemisphere, and a swore mortal enemy of U.S. that tried to nuke our cities and spread communist terrorism all around Latin America and Africa.