So then, your argument leans toward making the assertion that the Cuban people endured 58 years of the Castro brothers because they were intimidated by their firing squads????
I think that’s right but what does that say about the Cuban people when you contrast them to any number of “people’s” around the world who rose up and through off tyranny even though thousands of them died in the process?
From the Gulag Archipelago:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
That is the answer: AWARENESS.
Leaving the benign dictatorship of Batista, the new revolution of Castro seemed like a good thing for a while.
Hell, he was even on the Tonight Show in New York as I remember. He was new and glamorous.
Many, many countries have fallen under dictatorships or totalitarian regimes. It happens because the people are not “aware” of its happening. Visit your local junior college.
Some of my ancestors were serfs in 1600s in what later became Germany. One was fortunate and smart and immigrated here in 1709. Who knew the outcome?