On November 25, 2016, one of the oldest communist dictators of the world died - Fidel Castro.
Socialism, having lost in reality, won the battle for the minds of the intellectual elite. Therefore, as every self -respecting modern liberal knows, a corrupt dictator of the Batista, a poor cube of the Cuban Cuba.
So - this is a lie.
Until 1959, Cuba was one of the richest countries of Latin America, with the highest capitalization of the stock market. Yes, it was not a free country, and the battles' regime was corrupt. But it was Las Vegas-it was a suburb of the United States, where tourists, money and gambling flocked. Las Vegas also created the mafia.
Anyone who wants to imagine a Cuba without a revolution can look at Las Vegas.
Immediately after the revolution, Cuba completely nationalized all enterprises and collected agriculture. And the economic prosperity of Cuba is over. Before the death of the USSR, Cuba still lived on Soviet subsidies, and after the collapse of the USSR in one of the most blessed countries in the world, where the stick is planted - hunger came. People physically starved how they were starving in Vietnam after the victory of Ho Shi Mina.
The cards are still valid in Cuba. Each Kuban has a book with cards and BODEGA, an official store to which it is attached. Bodega looks exactly the way the agricultural sector looked somewhere in Ust-Zaplyuysk in the 1970s: empty shelves and a rolling ball. Card norms - five eggs per month.
The brightest sign of the socialist Cuba is the fleet of the 50s. Cars are the little that remained in private property, and their happy owners still use the same cars that they used during the terrible and terrible batista, supporting their life with the help of unthinkable tricks. Who has a car is lucky. He can carry tourists and earn money in order to buy food on the black market.
Only under President Raule Castro, Casters were allowed to own their apartments, and they gained access to household appliances. At the same time, the state is still responsible for repair, water and electricity. As a result, even the central streets of Havana are pouring houses, the remains of the former colonial greatness.
The population depends on the state in everything - from birth to death. 70 percent of the population work for the state. Cuba boasts of his free healthcare system, and the myth of the beautiful Cuban healthcare system does not leave the pages of the left press. In fact, this system was created using the USSR in the 60s and looks exactly the same as a rural hospital in Uzbekistan in the USSR in the 60s. There is no modern medical equipment in Cuba, modern treatment methods and doctors who can use them.
You ask: how does the population voluntarily put up with such a life at the beginning of the 21st century? Answer: With the help of propaganda and repression.

The system of concentration camps began to be created in Cuba back in the 60s, in parallel with the construction of socialism.
This is always with socialism like this - its construction begins with a concentration camp and usually ends with it.
Kubinsky Gulag was called UMAP.
Anyone who refused to voluntarily engage in work for the good of the revolution could get into it, opposed collectivization, and was also a homosexual, the seventh -day Adventist and Jehovah's Witness. In addition, they got Catholic and Protestant priests. At one time, the camps totaled 350 thousand people. Under the population of the island, 6.4 million, despite the fact that in the Soviet Gulag in 1953 2.5 million people were held at 190 million people. At the gates of the camps, the same thing was written as at the Aushwitz’s gate: “Work will make you people.”
Of course, not everyone fell into concentration camps. Critics of the monstrous dictator of Pinochet, who could hardly scrape three thousand people killed for political reasons (they included 600 MIR militant terrorists, government soldiers killed by MIR, and even passers-by who accidentally died during organized MIR attacks) will be curious that the organization under the name of the Cuba archive even in the super-covered The totalitarian country was documented by 3615 cases of revolutionary executions plus 1253 extrajudicial murders.
These are only proven cases. The Black Book of Communism assesses the number of executions of 15-17 thousand people.
With the right hand and the main executioner of these revolutionary shooting brigades was the idol of the left around the world Ernesto Che Guevar. Every romantic who wears a T -shirt with his physiognomy should be familiar with the words of this Cuban Dzerzhinsky: “To send a person to shoot, the court is not needed. The court is a relic of the bourgeois past. The revolutionary should become a cold -blooded car for murder, driven by pure hatred. ”
This is not about secret executions. Many of the executions were public.
Let's say the truth - these executions remained in the past. The ability of the nation to resist the totalitarian dictatorship, alas, is infinite. The thirst for freedom has to burn with fire and sword only for the first thirty years. Then there is enough propaganda.
Nevertheless, political prisoners in Cuba still exist. Everyone knows about the terrible American base in Guantanamo. The crimes of the bloody Americans against the peaceful Muslims contained there are documented by every left -handed newspaper. We know well that the halal menu in this bloody citadel of American imperialism is only once every two weeks, that Pepsi-Cola and Ice Cream prisoners allow only twice a week, and the prison library has only 17 thousand books.
Ask any human rights activist at night what Guantanamo is, and he will answer you: this is a place where Americans torment Muslims without trial, forcing peaceful Islam to fight against America.
Few people know that in the province of Guantanamo, from the Cuban side, there are 94 (ninety -four) prisons. In total, the free cube has about 300 prisons - with a bloody batist there were 12 of them.
It is still impossible to leave Cuba: you need a visiting visa. From the beginning of the construction of socialism, approximately 1.2 million people fled from this paradise on Earth, including the leader’s sister and daughter. The death of Castro caused an attack of glee among these emigrants.
This holiday, however, is premature: there is no reason to believe that the Cuban regime is going to change. After all, any reform, saving the country, threatens the death of the ruling elite, and the ruling totalitarian elite always prefers the preservation of power to save the country.
This is clearly seen by the way the events in Cuba developed after the collapse of the USSR. At first, the end of the Soviet subsidies brought some sobering: after hunger began in the country, Fidel Castro allowed small business and even walking the dollar. However, Castro quickly found a new sponsor - Hugo Chavez. After that, in 2004, the dollar was banned again, and Castro began a cultural revolution, sending young hunweibins as its agents in the country.
In 2008, the seriously ill Castro as president, and then the first secretary of the Communist Party, was replaced by his brother, a hard -stone Marxist Raul. Of course, there was no question of any free election. Raul announced that his goal was to make the construction of socialism “irreversible”, and appointed his adviser to 81-year-old Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, a hard-stone Stalinist.
There is an old phrase: "Capitalism is an uneven distribution of wealth, and socialism is a uniform distribution of poverty." This phrase, alas, is not entirely fair.
Socialism does not at all exclude inequality and corruption. He simply means that the ruling elite lives under communism and receives free everything that is due to her by status, and the rest of the population lives in one large Gulag. It also means that the entire state of the state actually works to protect the status of those who already live under communism. And that the closer the person to power, the more his possibility of enrichment.
One typical example: Max Marambio, the former main bodyguard Allende, who, after the 1973 Chilean coup, managed to flee to Cuba. There - despite the abolition of private property - this closest friend Fidel Castro became the head of the successful commercial enterprise Rio Zaza. The reason why a warrior warrior who does not know how in business managed to become a millionaire was very simple: Rio Zaza received a monopoly from his friend to the sale of juices and pasteurized milk.
The end of the successful business Marambio came only when Fidel was replaced by his brother Raul. Marambio escaped from the island and received in absentia 20 years for unparalleled corruption.
Cuba, like North Korea, belongs to the number of relict countries in which the construction of socialism has led to total impoverishment, massacres and the transfer of power inherited in one sacred family.
Despite the fall of the USSR, these countries managed to survive at the expense of state terror and propaganda, as well as due to the radical decrease in the resistance of the nation of this propaganda in the second generation. And nothing indicates that the death of Fidel Castro will bring Cuba some changes.