I recently heard that interview with Lee Harvey Oswald from 1962. When asked “are you a communist?” Oswald is vehement. “No. I’m a Marxist-Leninist.” I chuckled when I heard that, but upon further reading I discovered he became disillusioned with his “utopian” Russia and thought Cuba would be paradise. It’s because it’s the right kind of marxism in Cuba. Or so he thought.
If you’re going to be under a brutal totalitarian regime, there should at least be nice beaches.