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Recent Cuban immigrant and college student shocked by peers' perception of socialism, seeks to dismantle it
Fox News via yahoo.com ^ | January 20, 2022 | Peter Aitken

Posted on 01/21/2022 6:47:10 PM PST by grundle

A Cuban student enrolled at Syracuse University said he was stunned by the way his fellow students perceived socialism.

Justo Antonia Triana studies Classical Civilization and Political Science and writes poetry, articles, and narratives in both Spanish and English. He also moved to America in 2019 after his father filed for a family reunification after leaving Cuba five years earlier.

In a column for The College Fix, Triana highlights the most startling thing he found in his new home: A sharp misconception about politics in Cuba.

"Many could only think of the palm trees on a beach, but the first impulse of others was to repeat the magic words with which the international left justifies the tyranny: ‘free healthcare, free education, American embargo,’" Triana wrote of what he called the "distorted idea" people had of life in Cuba.

Nobody knew about the constant mental siege in which Cubans survive: the strong political indoctrination and the forced cult of the personality of the leaders, the communist propaganda thrown at us by all the media, the absolute repression of individual thought, the impudence with which the government dictates and controls everything in our lives," he explained.

His interactions with fellow students and his teachers, and hearing what they thought of life in Cuba and the socialism the leadership enacted, drove Triana to share his life experiences – a privilege he noted would land him in jail in his homeland.

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KEYWORDS: americanvalues; communism; cuba; education; socialism
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To: packagingguy

The most ardent anti-commies I know are from a couple of the old Soviet east block countries. You are not going to bs them about the “glories” of socialism.


21 posted on 01/22/2022 1:57:38 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: packagingguy

I can see why he feels that way!


22 posted on 01/22/2022 3:42:53 AM PST by dkGba
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To: Inyo-Mono

bkmk


23 posted on 01/22/2022 3:51:26 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: grundle

I am surprised the woke crowd hasn’t had him removed from the university and committed to a mental institution.


24 posted on 01/22/2022 4:09:00 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: grundle

Cuban man going to Home Depot for the first time. Tears up looking a tar paper, Tar Paper!.

If only he could fix the roof on his mother’s house.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cuban+man+going+to+a+homedepot+for+the+first+time&view=detail&mid=B06A630AE49B619B9208B06A630AE49B619B9208&FORM=VIRE


25 posted on 01/22/2022 6:35:00 AM PST by Vinnie ( L g Brandon)
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To: TigerClaws

Ever notice how no one ever says Hitler’s Nationalist Socialism was not real Nationalist Socialism? Once was enough for that abomination.

But Marxism? 100 years of failure, trying it over and over again! “We’ll do it right the next time!”


26 posted on 01/22/2022 8:11:51 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK IN FACEBOOK JAIL, Another 30 days. On GAB now. Some real cranks there!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Exactly.

If anyone says they are socialist, I always ask, “National Socialist or International Socialist?”


27 posted on 01/22/2022 10:05:58 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: packagingguy

People in Florida knew.

After that commie pig Castro took over we would see the bodies of the unlucky escapees wash up on our beaches. Castro ordered his thugs to shoot people trying to escape.

Another tip off that people in our country who support communism know better? It’s THAT NONE OF OUR HOME GROWN COMMIES MOVE TO COMMIE HELLHOLES “TO ENJOY THE FREE HEALTHCARE AND ‘EDUCATION’... They stay right here.

Why?

Because communism is paradise for the very few commie thugs who run things - it’s hell on earth for everyone else.


28 posted on 01/22/2022 10:50:25 AM PST by GOPJ (Joe and Mika are bullies - they get off on fantasies of being able to push people around. )
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To: Vinnie

That’s a great video! Thanks for the link.


29 posted on 01/23/2022 10:41:38 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Check out his other ‘firsts’. Grocery, car dealer, ball games.
We take all our abundances for granted.


30 posted on 01/23/2022 11:00:39 AM PST by Vinnie ( L g Brandon)
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