Renown English historian, Hugh Thomas, who wrote an scholar “History of Cuba, The Pursuit of Freedom” from the Discovery to the beginning of Castro’s revolution, referring to Castro’s Cuba affirmed in The Spectator (7/12/1986): “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there as 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.”
To maintain his reign of terror in Cuba, Castro counted with 297,000 active forces in addition of over 60,000 Soviet troops. Under Batista there were 11 major prisons in the whole Island, Castro counted with 597 major prisons and concentration camps where over 500,000 Cubans were imprisoned and tortured for periods from a few years to more than 35 years sentences. During the war, in Hitler’s Germany there were 548 prisons and concentration camps inside their territory. Germany had over 30 million inhabitants, Cuba just over 6 million. Before Castro there were not Cubans leaving their country for political or economic reasons. Under Castro over 2 million Cubans fled their beloved island for political reasons.
It's more than the mind and spirit can comprehend.