the us-leaders pushed cuba to the soviets and the soviets helped the cubans while the usa was blocking this tiny little island with the entire military might.
the sanctions are up till today
all the poverty on cuba is not the failing of socialism but the sanctions preventing cubans for generations to trade with the world, this is insane.
but listen what he says, he refuses to call himself a comunist but history will tell one day what he is.
@SisterBegonia Cuba is an island nation like most island nations they lack resources such as oil and other supplies, so they heavily rely on imports (which America was trading with Gen Batista) Castro ended the exploiting greedy thugs like the UFC that were exploiting their cash crop sugar cane The US responded by embargoing Cuba. It was such a horror because food and suplies were not coming in, so people fled also a lot fled when ussr crashed
@ST4leave - Oh, really? Do tell, please. There's nothing I enjoy more than hearing the history of my own country...from a gringo! BTW, you better let the Cuban government that they're not pumping a reported 812 millions barrels of crude oil. Also, please, remind that due to the crippling blockade they're not supposed to build so many multi-million dollar luxury resorts.
@ST4leave - You leftie gringos sound exactly like right wing nutjobs at FAUX News. You're given a script with six words (embargo, maffia, Batista, Fidel, revolution, healthcare and education) and you can't spew anything but that. How ignorant! How laughable, you're doing the bidding for the devil not knowing what you're doing. You are the only idiots on the face of the Earth that would swallow the most rudimentary propaganda ever...worse actually than FAUX News. Sad, sad, sad.
@ST4leave - Oh, really? How then do you explain the fact that Cuba had free healthcare BEFORE Castro appointed himself to power? Better yet, how do you explain the fact that today, healthcare is a much for profit endeavor in Cuba for which they have even formed a gasp! corporation to run? Any ideas, Einstein? Or does your Communist Propaganda Manual doesn't tell you that?
@ST4leave - So, the only time when people fled was when the USSR crashed? That would explain Camarioca in the early 60s, Mariel in 1980 and...Oh, but never mind. I'm stepping into *your* territory. Being Cuban doesn't entitle me to knowledge of my own history, of course. Only you self-brainwashed, mental defective idiots on the American left know our history. BTW, do you know that the crap you spew has never, ever once been mentioned in Cuba by Fidel? Why do you suppose that is?
If the U.S would of just keep trading with Cuba then Cuba would not have needed Russian goods in exchange for missiles. Just because Castro ended the greedy corporate UFC from exploiting Cuba’s cash crop sugar cane. Doesn’t mean we should of cut off trade with them. And don’t give me that crap about Castro killed people, Gen Batista killed over 20,000 and U.S had no problems being friends with him. Money was the motive.
@ST4leave - The reality is that if the US had left Cuba alone, the regime would have fallen within a few years. As for the killing, that's all a matter of who's doing the math. There are a reported 77,000 dead at sea trying to escape that horror. The other thousands that were killed en el paredon and jails haven't been counted. So, Batistsa's, 20,000 pale in comparison to Fidel's 100k or more.
All enemies of America play the charade of pretending to be friends of the American people but of being opposed to our government. Principle among these enemies our those from our own country. Nevertheless, their myopic cataracted eyes fail to any such problems with their totalitarian communist "friends". Pure hypocrisy.
@TorrentesDeFe Fidel is great man, he gave his people good healthcare, education and saved Cuba from what Haiti is now, ruined by capitalist dictators. People of Cuba love Fidel because he saved Cuba from horrible future of capitalist dictatorship and slavery.
@chickenwretch If you knew history you would know that before Fidel Cuba was totalitarian capitalist dictatorship where most people had no access to healthcare or education and they were basically slaves of US criminal corporations.
@Pvjinflight ...and then became slaves of Fidel where there wasn't any hope for upward mobility, unless you became a Party hack. That was then where the economic strata froze; the haves and the have nots. Yeah, real nice place.
@chickenwretch At least they get amazing healthcare and education for their work instead of nothing that they got in times of Batista. And also would you really think that USA would have allowed people to vote for socialism democratic way? No, thats why there was Batista as dictator.
@Pvjinflight Amazing healthcare? is that why their important citizens are treated overseas when its a matter of life and death? Education? or indoctrination? The US has a socialist president right now, and he was voted in. That's the problem; socialism ceases to work after it runs out of other peoples money. This is whats happening in Europe right now, after 50 years of socialism. Capitalism provides an outlet for the self-determined individual, make it or break it. At least one has a chance.
@chickenwretch Not really? Actually Chavez of Venezuela and many people from US and other western countries travel to Cuba for treatment. And here in Finland we have kind of socialist system (free healthcare and education for everyone and in high, equal quality), and we are rated better than in USA in terms of life quality and end result of education.
In reality in todays world poor man who borns to USA has no big chances to become rich no matter how hard he works as he cant get good education.
@Pvjinflight You live in America? you know this to be a fact or are you reading liberal sources that hate capitalism? Finland is a model, but most other nations aren't 90some% ethnically homogenous or have an advanced educated monocultural infrastructure, with efficient producers and small population. Chavez went to Cuba because Venezualas medical is even worse than their communist cousins in Havanna. I was a poor man but now I'm not; I used my brains and worked my ass off to propel a service.
@chickenwretch Actually some amount of socialism gives invidual better possibility to break away from poverty by getting good education with money of government and continuing from there.
@Pvjinflight Believe me, here in America there are plenty of subsidized assistance programs. Especially if you're an minority or have screwed up your health with drugs and alcohol. There is too much assistance and this takes away initiative and engenders ingraditude. Its not an inanimate object flipping these tabs its real people playing by the rules and getting stomped on for it. Come over here get plugged in and you'll see what I mean. America should get bad grades for its entertainment.
the regime of castro has brought many benefits for cuba but on the end of his life he has to ask himself why thousands and thousands of his compatriots prefered to try to go to usa by endangering their lifes than spend it in cuba
@zobielamouche1 Thats matter. Some people think that they can get happiness by becoming rich and buying matter around them, and thats what they can do in USA, when on the other hand they do not have access to great education or healthcare, and most of them will be just low class citizens of society for rest of their life.
I have the matter, but am I happy because of it? No. I would rather have ideology and respectable government and country than stuff around me.
@Pvjinflight For all your claims of travel don't you see that you are sheltered. You live in Finland, there are no risks. Yet you dump on those who have to take chances, use their wits, make it or break it. Corporations are evil? who told you that? Who makes your toothpaste, packages your food and delivers it? Who provides employment for these commodities and makes a way for people to have a roof over their head? and gets taxed so that healthcare is paid for? Cuba is a monocultural disaster.
@chickenwretch At least it seems that lots of US americans and such prefer cheap and good quality healthcare of Cuba to what they could get in USA as lots of medical tourism goes to Cuba, cant be all bad.
I still believe that Cuba would be like Haiti without Castro.
@Pvjinflight Where did you hear that? Americans going to Cuba for health tourism? Bet you heard it from a left-wing blog that has an obvious agenda. I 've never heard this before and can assure you its not true. Come on, with all that education available over there why would you resort to preconceived angles on objective topics? What did Finland do for Haiti? and you can thank the leftwing UN for its corrupt oversight of US handouts, think we conservatives here in America like this shit too?
@chickenwretch Whatever idk if they were americans, but many foreigners do go to Cuba for cheaper but still high quality operations.
And Haiti was totally ruined to what it is today by 2 corrupted capitalist dictators, and USA did not do a shit to them as they were capitalists and allowed US corporations to continue in Haiti, no matter how many innocent lives they took.
@Pvjinflight So in your value system a capitalist dictator is more corrupt than a communist dictator? Come on now, you're the one praising the likes of Castro and his ilk. Looks as if a double standard is being applied, without any cohesive consistancy but that of an leftwing idealogue. If the US were to go in unilaterally and command a just accounting then you'd scream imperialism. Perhaps if everyone wore a uniform this would please you? of course you'd want an exemption cause you know it all.
@chickenwretch Nope not always, but Fidel was really not corrupt dictator or totalitarian, he actually cares about his people and instead of taking all money to himself like Batista did Castro has invented free healthcare and education for everyone with it.
The truth is that life quality of average cuban worker has risen very much from the days of Batista thanks to Castro. Of course rich elite lost their stuff, but thats what they deserved.
@Pvjinflight Is that why he created Soviet-style re-education labor camps for his people? Or a secret police that made sure everyone thought and acted just the way Fidel thought they should? It would do you good to live in a dictatorship so you could get your mind right. Fidel didn't raise the bar he lowered it for egalitarian purposes. Would you like to have 90% of what you make taken and dispersed without recourse? Or do you have skin in the game at all? Most leftys don't,they want others stuf
@Pvjinflight - Fidel cares for his people? What people? Are you on drugs or do you live on an alternate reality? If he cared so much for his people why have 1 million left, another 77,000 dead at sea and another 11 million trying to get out? Man, talk about clueless!
@SisterBegonia Thats because of embargo. Fidel gave his people good quality healthcare available for everyone, and good quality education, and thats why now really every Cuban with no any kind of disease can read well when during Batistas times big part of Cubans could not read and he did nothing to that. Also life expectancy has risen from less than 60 to 78, same that USA has, all thanks to Fidel.
@SisterBegonia However like said embargo has created lots of problems and has kept Cuba poor. Lots of people have left because they want to have chance of getting better life quality with more matter and money around them, but the fact is that really money & matter does not give you ultimate happiness.
Also your numbers are bullshit and you are from United States which means that I cant expect anything but US propaganda from you.
Kinda expected castro to sound a little.....less retarded? No offense to castro's supporters but really he sounds like one of those hippies from the 70's or so idk
@SoleCitizen33 I already said no offense to insure no trolls are gonna be throwing shit at me for an opinion of my own. So what the fuck is wrong with you? Is annoying people your sole purpose of living on this damned world? And yeah. An 80 - 89 year old man can whoop my ass. I have nothing against castro and will never. He has his own reasons for wanting to imprison cubans and i am enjoying my life. He can do whatever the bullshit he wants for all i care. So why don't you ''FUCK OFF!''. :I
Fuckin U.S., the root of all evil in the world. He's wrong about the people, they are the ones who elect their leaders and should all burn in hell for the crimes they have committed.
@crapfacejoe The people of the US dont elect their leaders, they are already pre selected by the elites. And a person that thinks hundreds of millions of people should burn in hell because of the decisions of few people truly is a retard.
@Samseal16 100 million people voted in the last few presidential elections for either Republicans or Democrats, one party with two heads. The 100 million that voted elected a tyrannical government and the remaining 200 million who did not vote are complicit for allowing their country to fall in the hands of tyrants. In the U.S., it's the people who elect their leaders, therefore, the countless crimes perpetrated by their gov't falls squarely on the electorate, which are the American people.
@Samseal16 That's interesting, but what if, like Peter the Great inspecting British parliament, Fidel decided to gather information about the capitalist nation by renting out a room in Hollywood with two Americans? Check out "Hanging with Fidel".
Search Matter of chance productions. It's hilarious!
@TheClone3000 no, i said ghadaffi didnt do anything, the cia planned his capture because he was another opponent of america. thats all there is to it. the media lied so people can buy it and let their country invade libya. and u did argue against the fact that america broke laws during the cold war
@TheClone3000 america used the same technique yet people like u are too blind and stupid to take the responsibility in disapproving your governments actions. why would the government do something like that again? haven't they learned enough? NO THEY"RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE
@TheClone3000 listen, nato is doing the same bullshit every time. soviets took over afghanistan in 1979 and then america decided to give weapons and money the mujaheddin and osama bin laden was part of it. after that this group called the"taliban" split from that group and they're being funded by the cia. now america has a "war" against the taliban. and in libya protesters wanted ghaddafi down. those protesters say they're on al qaedas side yet america still supports them.this is the same thing
They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls.
the owners Castro is referring to are the rich bankers that own everything
George Carlin - ""The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, . The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
see the thing is your going agenst fact here , ghaddafi did kill unarmed people ,the civilans didnt have wepons are anything before nato gave it to them. am glad ghaddafi is dead he was a murrderer to. am begining to think your just one of thoughs people who supports people like this just for the sake of rebeling no matter if the outcome is good are bad.
@TheClone3000 What facts? Where is the evidence? Why is that before NATO intervened these "protesters/civilians" had T-55, T-72 tanks. Why are these "protesters/civilians" hanging up Al-Qaeda banners? I am beginning to think you believe whatever your government tells you. Those protesters are armed extremists
I dare you to research the kind of lives Libyans had under Ghaddagi, especially women. Compare their lives to other Muslim countries, and compare them to Today's Libya. I FUCKING DARE YOU!
@Sinvx there is plenty of fact that ghaddagi had his men fire on unarmed civilians i dont know how you dont see it. and if ghaddagi country was so great why were they protesting in the first place?
@TheClone3000 You're the one with all the facts, why don't you tell me why they were protesting? Libya had the highest living standards in all of Africa, better then most European countries too. Do what I dared you to do, Research about the Living conditions for people in Libya, especially women, and compare them to today's Libya.
Going to make something clear hear, I don't think Ghaddafi was great, but he wasn't as bad as media says. The pretence to intervene was also fabricated bullshit.
@TheClone3000 you gotta see the patterns with the US governments expressions. ghaddafi exposes americas issues with russia, blames them for terrorism and controls libyas oil. what else would nato want but to invade libya
@airborne4lf cause ghaddafi was a dictator who killed his citizens for no reason. and they we protesting because the government was out of control , ghaddafi killing people is proves that.
@TheClone3000 Where is the evidence? 2 days after the protests, protesters started pulling tanks out of their asses. Sorry bud, but the lack of evidence, and the tanks coming out of the protesters asses does not add up to what the media is saying.
It's like when the US talked about Russia invaded Georgia un-provoked in 2008.
@TheClone3000 You want to see truly disgusting things going on in Libya? Search Libyan Rebel War crimes. That's all I ask, look into it. You see what NATO bombings, and Libyan Rebels have done. If you can't even do that much, just stop what you're doing. I've watched your video and it doesn't show anything, just people screaming.
@Sinvx well my video has person from lybia talking about how bad it is. and it shows a lot. i dont think you understand i dont like any murderer even if they fight for the rebles, they should be punished to. but you act as if that gives gaddafi the right to kill and it doesnt!
@TheClone3000 Cops in your country were beating and pepper spraying protestors.. obama attacked two countries during his presidential office.. and continued the war in iraq.. he hasn't lived up to any of his promises.. guantanamo bay is still open... their is still an american military presence in iraq..
@TheClone3000 nothing has changed for the better.. in fact it's much worse now.. face it USA is the best at one thing.. terrorism.. you know when ahmadinejad gave his speech at the non nuclear proliferation meeting.. he made a great statement. nuclear energy for all.. nuclear weapons for none. but USA France and UK reps walked out of the meeting.. hypocrites
stop believing that fox news drivel. all the media stations are controlled by the bankers and corps.. fascism
@DarkprinX2500 it does not matter if things got wores after the protest because the protest and the aftermath were made by the bad and evil leadership of a dictater, and yes cops pepper spray "violent" protesters yes but the dont unleash ak-47 on them. and yes i lisen to fox but im enoff to check all the facts from every news network.even people that dont watch fox think of Gaddoffi the way I do . The fact is gaddoffi alowed his men to kill inocent protesters in mass numbers. the people hate him
@TheClone3000 gadaffi didnt kill many people just a couple like if america doesnt kill hundreds of thousands every year. and many protesters in new york are innocent
@TheClone3000 no i just added the protesters as another subject because u were wrong about it. they're still beating and arresting many innocent protesters
@airborne4lf how does that matter ,your right than thats roung to but you want to say cockdaffi was a great man, when all the evidance shows he wasnt , DONT EVEN SAY ITS PROPAGNADA cause its not , see what you belive is "oh there saying he did this, well i guss i better not belive that ,EVEN THOUGH THERE IS 100 PONDS OF EVIDENCE FOR IT". you just want to belive that the us is terible just so you can bitch! i mean shit there are videos of gaddafi doing this stuff you ass.
@TheClone3000 omg but why cant we do the same to our government. was ghaddafi's libya a superpower? no, u have to look at the main idea. who caused all these wars. who keep blaming others for self gain?
@airborne4lf we do every day ,am not going to get into the "we started wars thing" even if the police did kill someone ,i bet you obama didnt order it. ghaddafi did and ghaddafi did not care. are police dont go and shot there guns in a crowed of "peacful" protesters at least not most of them ,there are a few bad eggs that might.
@TheClone3000 the cold war was started by the US and costed many vietnamese, cuban, angolan, russian, and korean lives. and all of them were just backing their government. how is it right to launch a war against another nation, but the ones who die are actually people trying to help end poverty. but no, westerners need to have the freedom to hoard and use money the way they want to.
@airborne4lf this is wy i dont wont to get into the war thing because your just trying to chang the subject. you are roung about most of that btw (but thats all i have to say) you were trying to say that gaddafi was great and i proved he was not and you chang the subject. im not saying that all of the people fighting for there country were bad ,am saying what the government did was bad.
@airborne4lf No ,they planed his captor because he was an enemy of freedom ,and his people had enough . The media would have no reason to lie about this , I hate to tell you but the government does not control what the people say. There is video evidence that proves this on you tube (not saying everything on you tube is true).
@TheClone3000 no the same will happen in iran and syria. the government is trying to eliminate its opponents. they cant let russias allies exist any longer. if they dont there will definitely be complications during ww3
@airborne4lf The NKoreans crossed the 38th parallel into a sovereign country upon Stalins permission. These 2 nations were created by joint treaties between the US UN and USSR. Communist aggression.N and SVietnam were also created in the same fashion. Ho,again with PRC and USSR nods invaded a sovereign nation. Communist aggression.Proxy wars were waged by the superpowers always after communist agitation and civil unrest fanned by communism. You don't know the facts only grudges get over it.
@chickenwretch Also lets not forget that Cubans themselves wanted Castro. If USA had not supported Batista & and had allowed free honest elections to Cuba Fidel would have got into power completely democratic way, people were tired of slavery and corrupted government of Batista.
In real democracy if people want some system, even communism, they are allowed to get it. But of course USA did not allow communism to spread and went against democracy.
@Pvjinflight 2 wrongs never making a right, how many anti-communist rallies, parties, popular uprisings were smashed by a minority communist ruling class? Hungary 1956 Poland 1956 Germany 1953 Poland 1980 Prague 1968 to name a few. These were sovereign nations invaded and re-shackled by their Soviet overlords. Your selective moral outrage is reserved for the oppressed from the so called right, though a look further would show oligarchies and statesubsidizing clans, not capitalism. Homework done
@chickenwretch ahh coming on to castro turf too? ho chi minh was a rebel leader who wanted to wipe out french colonization in vietnam. why did france inhumanely colonize vietnam? this is exactly imperialism. this is what satan promotes. french scum making investment they make me sick. and then america backs them up? they try to make imperialism stay in place in southeast asia. how is this right? and after france loses america themselves start a war with poor vietnamese people. god bless vietcong
@milad930 im afghan too but our people fought against the soviets. russia shouldnt have invaded afghanistan. it was also a bad mistake because thats how they collapsed
@airborne4lf that isnt the reason they collapsed, it was a contributing factor but wasnt the main reason, the main reason was the fact that after stalin died Soviet leaders were getting less and less strict and the people began to loss faith and took power into their own hands, thus the collapse of the soviet union
@airborne4lf but the soviets did not invade afghanistan, the socialistic govt of afghanistan called the soviets for help to fight the uprising and rebellion from radical islamists, which were funded by saudia arabia and usa to topple the socialistic govt and make a regime change to a us friendly regime..
the americans destroyed afghanistan two times not only once :)
@horror11 i like the soviet union better than america but afghans didn't like communism because of their disagreement with religion. this is why they rebelled. they weren't radical, just performing jihad. the problem was that they took americas hand during the war. the mujahideen didn't know what they were doing when they took the west's side. in this case, both the soviet union and america was bad.
no im talking about the people that are (A) so poor they have to leave (B) there familys were killed by fidle (c) they are chared with a crime of speaking out (D) they are carged with a crime they did not commet (F) are they want to get to america but the govenment wont let them leave. dont try to say that all of the people who come here are crimanal. your not cuban nor do you know anyone who is cuban , you act like you know more than the cuban people who are there you sick fuck.
communism is literally for the people and only for the people. Mao tse tung fought for communism most likely because he was sick of how the rich were leeching off of the poor and he fought for those poor people. Yes, he killed a lot of people, but america is responsible for that as well; crime is only really happening in capitalist societies which kills many people because money is such a factor on them. Either way, governments have to kill their people because either they love money or equality
wow u guys are stupid. dont come here if you think communism is wrong. do you know that what the US government does worse. well i shouldnt say worse becuase castro didnt do anything wrong. but if you got like forgeign international news they'll tell you what america does. they abuse every 3rd world country to make money and relations. look what they did to iraq and afghanistan. the US has an imperialistic gov
@airborne4lf When was the last time the u.s killed gays in work camps ,when was the last time someone got killed for playing music, when was the last time a u.s citizen left the country by raft at the risk of being eaten by sharks to go to Cuba. DON’T YOU EVEN TELL ME THE USA IS WORES! YOU ARE SICK IN THE HEAD!
@TheClone3000 you're fuckin stupid. i said that the US government hurts foreign people not our people. plus they should be blamed for what they did to the blacks and native americans, but lets not talk about that. the american government is lying, this harsh dictatorship accusation is fake, america wants the government of china overthrown, russia, overthrown, iran overthrown, cuba overthrown, venezuela overthrown, etc. they are hungry for imperialism. dont believe their propaganda.
@TheClone3000 when was the last time communist cuba invaded another country. when was the last time they killed 15 pakistani soldeirs randomly? when was the last time they persecuted china and iran? when was the last time they harvested drugs from afghanistan? when was the last time they killed innocent people in iraq? when was the last time they financed iraq during the iraq-iran war? when was the last time they stole oil? yeah never they never do the evils the american government does.
@airborne4lf omg all your reasons are idiotic ,most of what you say is crap,"yah the u.s.a totaly did all thoughs things". we never stole oil. Iran you have to be kidding me,its a war zone that we had know chouse but to go,when a country with a crazed dictater says they have nuks that does not leave many options.everything you say can be dibunked. your an idiot if you think a that a government were a leader can kill someone just for shits and giggles ,is better than a free country!
@TheClone3000 this free country shit blinds all of u. you think only so much about your freedoms(and yes im american) that you leave all the foreign issues for the government to think about. we need a revolution. you dont understand the government as much as i do. they do steal oil, you think the iraqi people actually give it up. and why do most middle eastern countries have pro-american thrones? you think the other arabs would give up what they have too. what about the imports from south americ
@airborne4lf we do not take there gold you lier , if there selling oil to us we are not taking it were buying it ,your so full of it. you have it backwards i understand government more ,because i know that communism alwase fails it has never worked out for anyone,just try to name one time were it has ,you cant.and you have to be kiding me. how about you get out of the us and go to cuba were it is so great,no one is making you stay unlike in cuba when you get in you cant get out.
@TheClone3000 they rip them off and take their produce for very cheap prices cus they'e poor. and in afghanistan they say the taliban are dealing heroin even though its actually them.they also take the gold they get from there. tell me, who does it actually belong too. how are you proud to say that your government literally takes from other countries? and as for iran they know this this is why they threaten us and israel.they want us to back off they wont hurt america until they make the1st move
@airborne4lf if you go to cuba you will see first hand how great it is . you will be poor just geting by to survive , you cant lisen to the music you like are you will get beat up by the secret polise. you right casto is a great leader ,killing gays is not roung ,your right cuba has never harmed anyone are done anything bad( cuban missle crisis) say what you want, but its all trash even in the usa darkest days like slavery we didnt do nerly anything close to cuba.
@TheClone3000 are you serious? you know nothing about cuba. its legal to be gay there and cuba is like a home of music. and castro helped cuba a lot. its too much to explain but his documentries can tell, he made the place better even when soviet russia toppled. this man is a hero, he took down that other dictator who sided with united states. the cmc wasnt a mission aimed at civilians but american bases, they bullshitting, he even called the reporters wonderful he wouldnt attack civilians
look at the link and do some reserch, he is not a hero, you are blind I dont know how anyone can idilize this man,yah he took down a dictater to put aother dictater in his place, a worse one, even if casro was a great leader ,eventuly there will be a leader like moa or hitler so on. your a fool. why havent you moved to cuba if it is so good.
@TheClone3000 those dictators are selfish and they didnt care about their people. castro has passion for his country. he made health and education better, and saying that this cuban dictatoship was worse than black slavery discusts me. how do you not recognize the 100s of years of torture and hard work that those people had to go through? do they kill you just for being another race in cuba? and who cares about homosexuals, that subject comes at the same time with westernization.
@airborne4lf slavery is in the past yes it is terible,there is no dening that but at that time everyone had slaves us, england ,even africans inslaved other tribes.castro has killed gays in work camps and you says he cares about the people....ok. castro is doing this now, the human race has evolved ,and become smarter seans then. i love america even if it has a bad history that,for some reason we get the blam and everyone did it. castro has not made helth beter that is myth.
@airborne4lf you can belive what you want but you and i know people would rather leave cuba by raft at the risk of being eaten by sharks,drowning ,or starving than staying in cuba.
@TheClone3000 exactly either your proposing your own opinions or you're just listening to some guy who ignorantly hates communism.you watch too much american news, u need to listen to international news even al jazeera tells more truth.its enough that america had 9/11 happen and made osama say he was the one who did it.and then america is in debt for trillions of dollars with china and they wont even pay them back.TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. face it the US government is corrupt you just a dumb patriot
@airborne4lf so in other words im right your roung, so you just start mud slinging I dont know how you can deiny that there are cuban leaving by raft from cuba ,thats fact in every country. AND HOW DID THE USA MAKE OSAMA SAY HE CAUSED 9/11 THATS JUST STUPID WE CANT MAKE SOMEONE SAY ANYTHING, EXSPESHILY WHEN HE WAS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY! it does not mater what news you lisen to every news network will tell you both of these statments are fact, unless its a comunnist because they countrol the meida.
@TheClone3000 Lmao, Bin Laden was trained by the CIA in the 80s. Al-Qaeda, and Taliban are a product of United States, it's common knowledge. You also don't know shit about Cuba.
@Sinvx i know that but that does not mean he is a cia agent or we caused 9/11 and am afrade your the one who dont know shit about cuba , i dont know how cuban people can come to the usa by raft say what a terible place it is and you still think its a great place .
@TheClone3000 you're so stupid you probably think ww3 would come in the form as an islamic terrorist attack. you probably think the cold war is over. go study before arguing but dont always read your school textbooks
@airborne4lf i see how you roll ,you start name calling after i put facts on the table and then tell me to study history as if you have proved me rong ,without puting facts on the table yourself. i think you need to learn your history.
@TheClone3000 Cuba has free health care, and free education, the only reason why it's in terrible condition aside from that, is because of US imposed sanctions. Want to know what the CIA planned to do in the 60s? Hijack plans and crash them into key buildings in the US, and blame it on Cuba to justify a war with them. This was declassified information given by the CIA themselves. So who is to say they wouldn't do it in the future, when they had the gall to think it up in the 60s.
@Sinvx you keep telling yourself that there helth care is great hold on to that myth , and you are oviusly lieing or your geting this from some comsperisy web site, and even if there was a bad egg in the cia it didnt happen so the system works ,cuba is also a terible place because 1 people dont have freedom of speech or prees fidle even admited that. 2 you can be killed just for speaking out. and 3 because castro is in power :)
@Sinvx yah not anymore but its still bad, maby its because you dont have cubans washing up on your shore that you think he is a great man, but how about you look up some intervews with cuban people in america and they will tell you.
@TheClone3000 You mean the criminals that are thrown out of Cuba, and are the biggest contributors of criminal activity in the Southern States like Florida, and Louisiana? Seriously, where the fuck do you get your information? What do you even know about the Cuban struggle?
@Sinvx I actuly have a freinds that are cuban one has a grandmother that cant leave cuba because the government wont let her . your an idiot were do you get the idea that castro is a good man , hole famalys were killed by him , he said after the revolution they would turn democratic (he lied) how about you talk to some cubans in florida and see what they think of casto ,your sick it the head you know that.
@TheClone3000 Yeah, I am sick in the head because I don't share your demented, narrow minded opinions on Cuba? The US dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japanese cities, inflicting major civilians casualties, and radioactive effects for years to come. Yet Fidel is evil, because US propaganda says he is?
@Sinvx ok you selecting your facts , you say we dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan, as if we did it for shits and giggles. It was ether that we drop 2 bombs are lose countless lives of soldiers, so am glad that we did it cause they did it to just with smaller bombs. And we did kill civilians in Vietnam (both sides were doing it)its called civilian warfare I think. not saying I agree with it, but that’s all we did ,your just taking the actions of a few bad eggs and saying everyone did it.
@Sinvx castro has killed inccont people just for disagreeing ,he is a terible man,am not saying we should never forgive cuba ,but we sould never forgive castro ,he should be carged with war crimes. and i never said that the usa did everything right in the world we have done stuff that is bad , but castro has killed countless people for no reason and stupid people like you love him. im not going to say that america did everything right cause we havent but nether has canada.
@TheClone3000 I did read it, and don't believe it. They say the same shit about Ghaddafi(RIP) and Assad in Libya and Syria. Yet first week of the peaceful protests, the protesters are pulling tanks, trucks with Anti-Aircraft weaponry attached to them, insane amounts of firearms and Rocket propelled gernades, in Libya, not sure where all those "peaceful protesters" got that.
@TheClone3000 Same deal in Syria, armed men walking with unarmed men, using them as shields, firing into security forces/riot police. When they fire back, Syrian government is condemned for killing "protesters". These protesters are also being armed to the teeth, and trained in Egypt, and Turkey. Just like before the Libya stuff, they were being trained in Egypt, and armed.
How is this related you ask? US did the exact same with Cuba, they armed Cuban exiles, and trained them, and sent em back.
@Sinvx see the thing is your going agenst fact here , ghaddafi did kill unarmed people ,the civilans didnt have wepons are anything before nato gave it to them. am glad ghaddafi is dead he was a murrderer to. am begining to think your just one of thoughs people who supports people like this just for the sake of rebeling no matter if the outcome is good are bad
@TheClone3000 Lets not forget what US did in Vietnam, raped women in front of their children. Then murdered the children, then the mother, scalped their heads, cut off their ears, fingers, toes, for collections. Yeah, you think the US is everything right in the world, but because I don't agree I am sick in the head...
@Sinvx and let me guss you hate that the usa went to irac ,but you your fine when it is cuba. and its ovius that when you said there white government that you see one race and you see the enemy
@airborne4lf and i lisen to all networks of news even ones i hate,your going aganst fact my freind. and I want you to tell me wy you don't leave the usa , no one is making you stay ,go to cuba ,but be carful once you become a citizen of cuba they wont let you leave.
I see castro has a lot of his people watching these comments and they are instructed to talk good of fidel.Well I would like to tell theme that communism will fall one day and revenge will be paid in full.Abajo la revoulucion,Abajo Fidel FUCK COMMUNISM!
That's America for you. Hate this country, hate that country. There's ALWAYS an excuse for them to teach people to hate countries, and certain people from different countries such as the Cubans themselves. Then they wonder why black people are still angry even with one as President.
Can't really blame them for taking back Cuba when the U.S. was just using it to make money to start with. And years later, Cuba still cares for it's people where America only cares for corporations and money
@LivinWorstNightmare CUBA CARING FOR IT'S PEOPLE? HA! FUNNIEST THING I SAW TODAY! If they cared so much for the people, why do they (Castro and his cronies) starve the people while they eat like kings in their mansions? Why do they take away private property and innocent lives who disagree? At least in America you have the right to live, though perhaps not for long after the commie's infiltrated here have their way, but let's pray not and do what we can.
Muchas personas hablan mucha porqueria sobre Fidel Castro. Pero recuerden que si no fuera por el todas las familias de los cubanos prinsiparmente las mujeres fueran todas unas prostitutas del hijodeputa de Batista. Aprendan a agradeser a un personaje que les salbo el culo y el bollo a todas sus madres, abuelas,tias sus propias mujeres, y sus hermanas si es que tienen. dejen de hablar porqueria bola de gusaneros. Yo no le tengo miedo a nadie a la hora de desir la verdad
Lol. He's a badass
shadowblack10 5 days ago
I love Fidel, I didn't know he knew any English though
Sovietnickie 2 weeks ago
che is the Logo for fihters
samsone77 2 weeks ago
castro speaks the simple truth.
the us-leaders pushed cuba to the soviets and the soviets helped the cubans while the usa was blocking this tiny little island with the entire military might.
the sanctions are up till today
all the poverty on cuba is not the failing of socialism but the sanctions preventing cubans for generations to trade with the world, this is insane.
but listen what he says, he refuses to call himself a comunist but history will tell one day what he is.
horror11 3 weeks ago 3
@SisterBegonia Cuba is an island nation like most island nations they lack resources such as oil and other supplies, so they heavily rely on imports (which America was trading with Gen Batista) Castro ended the exploiting greedy thugs like the UFC that were exploiting their cash crop sugar cane The US responded by embargoing Cuba. It was such a horror because food and suplies were not coming in, so people fled also a lot fled when ussr crashed
ST4leave 1 month ago
@ST4leave - Oh, really? Do tell, please. There's nothing I enjoy more than hearing the history of my own country...from a gringo! BTW, you better let the Cuban government that they're not pumping a reported 812 millions barrels of crude oil. Also, please, remind that due to the crippling blockade they're not supposed to build so many multi-million dollar luxury resorts.
Cheers!
SisterBegonia 1 month ago
@ST4leave - You leftie gringos sound exactly like right wing nutjobs at FAUX News. You're given a script with six words (embargo, maffia, Batista, Fidel, revolution, healthcare and education) and you can't spew anything but that. How ignorant! How laughable, you're doing the bidding for the devil not knowing what you're doing. You are the only idiots on the face of the Earth that would swallow the most rudimentary propaganda ever...worse actually than FAUX News. Sad, sad, sad.
SisterBegonia 1 month ago
@ST4leave - Oh, really? How then do you explain the fact that Cuba had free healthcare BEFORE Castro appointed himself to power? Better yet, how do you explain the fact that today, healthcare is a much for profit endeavor in Cuba for which they have even formed a gasp! corporation to run? Any ideas, Einstein? Or does your Communist Propaganda Manual doesn't tell you that?
SisterBegonia 1 month ago
@ST4leave - So, the only time when people fled was when the USSR crashed? That would explain Camarioca in the early 60s, Mariel in 1980 and...Oh, but never mind. I'm stepping into *your* territory. Being Cuban doesn't entitle me to knowledge of my own history, of course. Only you self-brainwashed, mental defective idiots on the American left know our history. BTW, do you know that the crap you spew has never, ever once been mentioned in Cuba by Fidel? Why do you suppose that is?
SisterBegonia 1 month ago
If the U.S would of just keep trading with Cuba then Cuba would not have needed Russian goods in exchange for missiles. Just because Castro ended the greedy corporate UFC from exploiting Cuba’s cash crop sugar cane. Doesn’t mean we should of cut off trade with them. And don’t give me that crap about Castro killed people, Gen Batista killed over 20,000 and U.S had no problems being friends with him. Money was the motive.
ST4leave 1 month ago
@ST4leave - The reality is that if the US had left Cuba alone, the regime would have fallen within a few years. As for the killing, that's all a matter of who's doing the math. There are a reported 77,000 dead at sea trying to escape that horror. The other thousands that were killed en el paredon and jails haven't been counted. So, Batistsa's, 20,000 pale in comparison to Fidel's 100k or more.
SisterBegonia 1 month ago
All enemies of America play the charade of pretending to be friends of the American people but of being opposed to our government. Principle among these enemies our those from our own country. Nevertheless, their myopic cataracted eyes fail to any such problems with their totalitarian communist "friends". Pure hypocrisy.
James2758433 1 month ago
Castro is better at english now rather than then. But he still has some problems.
SovietLenin1 1 month ago
People love liars! SICK.
TorrentesDeFe 2 months ago
Look at him, he thinks he is a big shot with his small criminal brain. All criminals tend to think too much of themselves.
TorrentesDeFe 2 months ago
@TorrentesDeFe Fidel is great man, he gave his people good healthcare, education and saved Cuba from what Haiti is now, ruined by capitalist dictators. People of Cuba love Fidel because he saved Cuba from horrible future of capitalist dictatorship and slavery.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
When is this dinosaur finally gonna kick it? after Raoul goes maybe the Cubans can get what was taken by these 2 thugs.
chickenwretch 2 months ago
@chickenwretch If you knew history you would know that before Fidel Cuba was totalitarian capitalist dictatorship where most people had no access to healthcare or education and they were basically slaves of US criminal corporations.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight ...and then became slaves of Fidel where there wasn't any hope for upward mobility, unless you became a Party hack. That was then where the economic strata froze; the haves and the have nots. Yeah, real nice place.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch At least they get amazing healthcare and education for their work instead of nothing that they got in times of Batista. And also would you really think that USA would have allowed people to vote for socialism democratic way? No, thats why there was Batista as dictator.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight Amazing healthcare? is that why their important citizens are treated overseas when its a matter of life and death? Education? or indoctrination? The US has a socialist president right now, and he was voted in. That's the problem; socialism ceases to work after it runs out of other peoples money. This is whats happening in Europe right now, after 50 years of socialism. Capitalism provides an outlet for the self-determined individual, make it or break it. At least one has a chance.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch Not really? Actually Chavez of Venezuela and many people from US and other western countries travel to Cuba for treatment. And here in Finland we have kind of socialist system (free healthcare and education for everyone and in high, equal quality), and we are rated better than in USA in terms of life quality and end result of education.
In reality in todays world poor man who borns to USA has no big chances to become rich no matter how hard he works as he cant get good education.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight You live in America? you know this to be a fact or are you reading liberal sources that hate capitalism? Finland is a model, but most other nations aren't 90some% ethnically homogenous or have an advanced educated monocultural infrastructure, with efficient producers and small population. Chavez went to Cuba because Venezualas medical is even worse than their communist cousins in Havanna. I was a poor man but now I'm not; I used my brains and worked my ass off to propel a service.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch Actually some amount of socialism gives invidual better possibility to break away from poverty by getting good education with money of government and continuing from there.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight Believe me, here in America there are plenty of subsidized assistance programs. Especially if you're an minority or have screwed up your health with drugs and alcohol. There is too much assistance and this takes away initiative and engenders ingraditude. Its not an inanimate object flipping these tabs its real people playing by the rules and getting stomped on for it. Come over here get plugged in and you'll see what I mean. America should get bad grades for its entertainment.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
Fidel speaks very good english, and so do I.
cubanboy258 2 months ago
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zobielamouche1 2 months ago
the regime of castro has brought many benefits for cuba but on the end of his life he has to ask himself why thousands and thousands of his compatriots prefered to try to go to usa by endangering their lifes than spend it in cuba
zobielamouche1 2 months ago
@zobielamouche1 Thats matter. Some people think that they can get happiness by becoming rich and buying matter around them, and thats what they can do in USA, when on the other hand they do not have access to great education or healthcare, and most of them will be just low class citizens of society for rest of their life.
I have the matter, but am I happy because of it? No. I would rather have ideology and respectable government and country than stuff around me.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight fair comment
zobielamouche1 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight For all your claims of travel don't you see that you are sheltered. You live in Finland, there are no risks. Yet you dump on those who have to take chances, use their wits, make it or break it. Corporations are evil? who told you that? Who makes your toothpaste, packages your food and delivers it? Who provides employment for these commodities and makes a way for people to have a roof over their head? and gets taxed so that healthcare is paid for? Cuba is a monocultural disaster.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch At least it seems that lots of US americans and such prefer cheap and good quality healthcare of Cuba to what they could get in USA as lots of medical tourism goes to Cuba, cant be all bad.
I still believe that Cuba would be like Haiti without Castro.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight Where did you hear that? Americans going to Cuba for health tourism? Bet you heard it from a left-wing blog that has an obvious agenda. I 've never heard this before and can assure you its not true. Come on, with all that education available over there why would you resort to preconceived angles on objective topics? What did Finland do for Haiti? and you can thank the leftwing UN for its corrupt oversight of US handouts, think we conservatives here in America like this shit too?
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch Whatever idk if they were americans, but many foreigners do go to Cuba for cheaper but still high quality operations.
And Haiti was totally ruined to what it is today by 2 corrupted capitalist dictators, and USA did not do a shit to them as they were capitalists and allowed US corporations to continue in Haiti, no matter how many innocent lives they took.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight So in your value system a capitalist dictator is more corrupt than a communist dictator? Come on now, you're the one praising the likes of Castro and his ilk. Looks as if a double standard is being applied, without any cohesive consistancy but that of an leftwing idealogue. If the US were to go in unilaterally and command a just accounting then you'd scream imperialism. Perhaps if everyone wore a uniform this would please you? of course you'd want an exemption cause you know it all.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch Nope not always, but Fidel was really not corrupt dictator or totalitarian, he actually cares about his people and instead of taking all money to himself like Batista did Castro has invented free healthcare and education for everyone with it.
The truth is that life quality of average cuban worker has risen very much from the days of Batista thanks to Castro. Of course rich elite lost their stuff, but thats what they deserved.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight Is that why he created Soviet-style re-education labor camps for his people? Or a secret police that made sure everyone thought and acted just the way Fidel thought they should? It would do you good to live in a dictatorship so you could get your mind right. Fidel didn't raise the bar he lowered it for egalitarian purposes. Would you like to have 90% of what you make taken and dispersed without recourse? Or do you have skin in the game at all? Most leftys don't,they want others stuf
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight - Fidel cares for his people? What people? Are you on drugs or do you live on an alternate reality? If he cared so much for his people why have 1 million left, another 77,000 dead at sea and another 11 million trying to get out? Man, talk about clueless!
SisterBegonia 1 month ago
@SisterBegonia Thats because of embargo. Fidel gave his people good quality healthcare available for everyone, and good quality education, and thats why now really every Cuban with no any kind of disease can read well when during Batistas times big part of Cubans could not read and he did nothing to that. Also life expectancy has risen from less than 60 to 78, same that USA has, all thanks to Fidel.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@SisterBegonia However like said embargo has created lots of problems and has kept Cuba poor. Lots of people have left because they want to have chance of getting better life quality with more matter and money around them, but the fact is that really money & matter does not give you ultimate happiness.
Also your numbers are bullshit and you are from United States which means that I cant expect anything but US propaganda from you.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
Kinda expected castro to sound a little.....less retarded? No offense to castro's supporters but really he sounds like one of those hippies from the 70's or so idk
drakknight118 2 months ago
@drakknight118 whatever he sounds like,he can woop ur ass any time.
SoleCitizen33 2 months ago
@SoleCitizen33 I already said no offense to insure no trolls are gonna be throwing shit at me for an opinion of my own. So what the fuck is wrong with you? Is annoying people your sole purpose of living on this damned world? And yeah. An 80 - 89 year old man can whoop my ass. I have nothing against castro and will never. He has his own reasons for wanting to imprison cubans and i am enjoying my life. He can do whatever the bullshit he wants for all i care. So why don't you ''FUCK OFF!''. :I
drakknight118 2 months ago
@drakknight118 you're taking yourself too seriously....
SoleCitizen33 2 months ago
Fuckin U.S., the root of all evil in the world. He's wrong about the people, they are the ones who elect their leaders and should all burn in hell for the crimes they have committed.
crapfacejoe 2 months ago
@crapfacejoe The people of the US dont elect their leaders, they are already pre selected by the elites. And a person that thinks hundreds of millions of people should burn in hell because of the decisions of few people truly is a retard.
Samseal16 2 months ago 27
@Samseal16 100 million people voted in the last few presidential elections for either Republicans or Democrats, one party with two heads. The 100 million that voted elected a tyrannical government and the remaining 200 million who did not vote are complicit for allowing their country to fall in the hands of tyrants. In the U.S., it's the people who elect their leaders, therefore, the countless crimes perpetrated by their gov't falls squarely on the electorate, which are the American people.
crapfacejoe 2 months ago
@Samseal16 Ron Paul is for real tho.
hehefromhere 1 month ago
@Samseal16 What evidence do you have to back up and accusation so serious? How do you know that the President is pre selected by the elites?
tatinum2 1 month ago
@Samseal16 That's interesting, but what if, like Peter the Great inspecting British parliament, Fidel decided to gather information about the capitalist nation by renting out a room in Hollywood with two Americans? Check out "Hanging with Fidel".
Search Matter of chance productions. It's hilarious!
The99Metric 4 days ago
Fidel studied in the US if u people didnt know
Hendrickfan54 2 months ago
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@TheClone3000 no, i said ghadaffi didnt do anything, the cia planned his capture because he was another opponent of america. thats all there is to it. the media lied so people can buy it and let their country invade libya. and u did argue against the fact that america broke laws during the cold war
airborne4lf 2 months ago
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@TheClone3000 america used the same technique yet people like u are too blind and stupid to take the responsibility in disapproving your governments actions. why would the government do something like that again? haven't they learned enough? NO THEY"RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE
airborne4lf 3 months ago
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airborne4lf 3 months ago
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@TheClone3000 listen, nato is doing the same bullshit every time. soviets took over afghanistan in 1979 and then america decided to give weapons and money the mujaheddin and osama bin laden was part of it. after that this group called the"taliban" split from that group and they're being funded by the cia. now america has a "war" against the taliban. and in libya protesters wanted ghaddafi down. those protesters say they're on al qaedas side yet america still supports them.this is the same thing
airborne4lf 3 months ago
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airborne4lf 3 months ago
They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls.
DarkprinX2500 3 months ago
the owners Castro is referring to are the rich bankers that own everything
George Carlin - ""The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, . The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
DarkprinX2500 3 months ago 2
see the thing is your going agenst fact here , ghaddafi did kill unarmed people ,the civilans didnt have wepons are anything before nato gave it to them. am glad ghaddafi is dead he was a murrderer to. am begining to think your just one of thoughs people who supports people like this just for the sake of rebeling no matter if the outcome is good are bad.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 What facts? Where is the evidence? Why is that before NATO intervened these "protesters/civilians" had T-55, T-72 tanks. Why are these "protesters/civilians" hanging up Al-Qaeda banners? I am beginning to think you believe whatever your government tells you. Those protesters are armed extremists
I dare you to research the kind of lives Libyans had under Ghaddagi, especially women. Compare their lives to other Muslim countries, and compare them to Today's Libya. I FUCKING DARE YOU!
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx there is plenty of fact that ghaddagi had his men fire on unarmed civilians i dont know how you dont see it. and if ghaddagi country was so great why were they protesting in the first place?
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 You're the one with all the facts, why don't you tell me why they were protesting? Libya had the highest living standards in all of Africa, better then most European countries too. Do what I dared you to do, Research about the Living conditions for people in Libya, especially women, and compare them to today's Libya.
Going to make something clear hear, I don't think Ghaddafi was great, but he wasn't as bad as media says. The pretence to intervene was also fabricated bullshit.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 you gotta see the patterns with the US governments expressions. ghaddafi exposes americas issues with russia, blames them for terrorism and controls libyas oil. what else would nato want but to invade libya
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf cause ghaddafi was a dictator who killed his citizens for no reason. and they we protesting because the government was out of control , ghaddafi killing people is proves that.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Where is the evidence? 2 days after the protests, protesters started pulling tanks out of their asses. Sorry bud, but the lack of evidence, and the tanks coming out of the protesters asses does not add up to what the media is saying.
It's like when the US talked about Russia invaded Georgia un-provoked in 2008.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx did you not get the video i sent you with a man from lybia telling you that it is terible and showing unarmed men geting shot
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 you keep dismissing what the american government does and only mud sling at their enemies
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 You want to see truly disgusting things going on in Libya? Search Libyan Rebel War crimes. That's all I ask, look into it. You see what NATO bombings, and Libyan Rebels have done. If you can't even do that much, just stop what you're doing. I've watched your video and it doesn't show anything, just people screaming.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx well my video has person from lybia talking about how bad it is. and it shows a lot. i dont think you understand i dont like any murderer even if they fight for the rebles, they should be punished to. but you act as if that gives gaddafi the right to kill and it doesnt!
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Cops in your country were beating and pepper spraying protestors.. obama attacked two countries during his presidential office.. and continued the war in iraq.. he hasn't lived up to any of his promises.. guantanamo bay is still open... their is still an american military presence in iraq..
DarkprinX2500 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 nothing has changed for the better.. in fact it's much worse now.. face it USA is the best at one thing.. terrorism.. you know when ahmadinejad gave his speech at the non nuclear proliferation meeting.. he made a great statement. nuclear energy for all.. nuclear weapons for none. but USA France and UK reps walked out of the meeting.. hypocrites
stop believing that fox news drivel. all the media stations are controlled by the bankers and corps.. fascism
DarkprinX2500 3 months ago
@DarkprinX2500 it does not matter if things got wores after the protest because the protest and the aftermath were made by the bad and evil leadership of a dictater, and yes cops pepper spray "violent" protesters yes but the dont unleash ak-47 on them. and yes i lisen to fox but im enoff to check all the facts from every news network.even people that dont watch fox think of Gaddoffi the way I do . The fact is gaddoffi alowed his men to kill inocent protesters in mass numbers. the people hate him
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 gadaffi didnt kill many people just a couple like if america doesnt kill hundreds of thousands every year. and many protesters in new york are innocent
airborne4lf 2 months ago
@airborne4lf i dont here many storys about protesters geting killed and if i do the poliec who did it are at least let go.
TheClone3000 2 months ago
@TheClone3000 no i just added the protesters as another subject because u were wrong about it. they're still beating and arresting many innocent protesters
airborne4lf 2 months ago
@airborne4lf how does that matter ,your right than thats roung to but you want to say cockdaffi was a great man, when all the evidance shows he wasnt , DONT EVEN SAY ITS PROPAGNADA cause its not , see what you belive is "oh there saying he did this, well i guss i better not belive that ,EVEN THOUGH THERE IS 100 PONDS OF EVIDENCE FOR IT". you just want to belive that the us is terible just so you can bitch! i mean shit there are videos of gaddafi doing this stuff you ass.
TheClone3000 2 months ago
@TheClone3000 omg but why cant we do the same to our government. was ghaddafi's libya a superpower? no, u have to look at the main idea. who caused all these wars. who keep blaming others for self gain?
airborne4lf 2 months ago
@airborne4lf we do every day ,am not going to get into the "we started wars thing" even if the police did kill someone ,i bet you obama didnt order it. ghaddafi did and ghaddafi did not care. are police dont go and shot there guns in a crowed of "peacful" protesters at least not most of them ,there are a few bad eggs that might.
TheClone3000 2 months ago
@TheClone3000 the cold war was started by the US and costed many vietnamese, cuban, angolan, russian, and korean lives. and all of them were just backing their government. how is it right to launch a war against another nation, but the ones who die are actually people trying to help end poverty. but no, westerners need to have the freedom to hoard and use money the way they want to.
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@airborne4lf this is wy i dont wont to get into the war thing because your just trying to chang the subject. you are roung about most of that btw (but thats all i have to say) you were trying to say that gaddafi was great and i proved he was not and you chang the subject. im not saying that all of the people fighting for there country were bad ,am saying what the government did was bad.
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airborne4lf 2 months ago
@airborne4lf No ,they planed his captor because he was an enemy of freedom ,and his people had enough . The media would have no reason to lie about this , I hate to tell you but the government does not control what the people say. There is video evidence that proves this on you tube (not saying everything on you tube is true).
TheClone3000 2 months ago
@TheClone3000 no the same will happen in iran and syria. the government is trying to eliminate its opponents. they cant let russias allies exist any longer. if they dont there will definitely be complications during ww3
airborne4lf 2 months ago
@airborne4lf The NKoreans crossed the 38th parallel into a sovereign country upon Stalins permission. These 2 nations were created by joint treaties between the US UN and USSR. Communist aggression.N and SVietnam were also created in the same fashion. Ho,again with PRC and USSR nods invaded a sovereign nation. Communist aggression.Proxy wars were waged by the superpowers always after communist agitation and civil unrest fanned by communism. You don't know the facts only grudges get over it.
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch Also lets not forget that Cubans themselves wanted Castro. If USA had not supported Batista & and had allowed free honest elections to Cuba Fidel would have got into power completely democratic way, people were tired of slavery and corrupted government of Batista.
In real democracy if people want some system, even communism, they are allowed to get it. But of course USA did not allow communism to spread and went against democracy.
Pvjinflight 1 month ago
@Pvjinflight 2 wrongs never making a right, how many anti-communist rallies, parties, popular uprisings were smashed by a minority communist ruling class? Hungary 1956 Poland 1956 Germany 1953 Poland 1980 Prague 1968 to name a few. These were sovereign nations invaded and re-shackled by their Soviet overlords. Your selective moral outrage is reserved for the oppressed from the so called right, though a look further would show oligarchies and statesubsidizing clans, not capitalism. Homework done
chickenwretch 1 month ago
@chickenwretch ahh coming on to castro turf too? ho chi minh was a rebel leader who wanted to wipe out french colonization in vietnam. why did france inhumanely colonize vietnam? this is exactly imperialism. this is what satan promotes. french scum making investment they make me sick. and then america backs them up? they try to make imperialism stay in place in southeast asia. how is this right? and after france loses america themselves start a war with poor vietnamese people. god bless vietcong
airborne4lf 1 month ago
@airborne4lf
dont forget the afghans!
milad930 1 month ago
@milad930 im afghan too but our people fought against the soviets. russia shouldnt have invaded afghanistan. it was also a bad mistake because thats how they collapsed
airborne4lf 1 month ago
@airborne4lf that isnt the reason they collapsed, it was a contributing factor but wasnt the main reason, the main reason was the fact that after stalin died Soviet leaders were getting less and less strict and the people began to loss faith and took power into their own hands, thus the collapse of the soviet union
YrrrraaaawwwwrrrrY 1 month ago
@YrrrraaaawwwwrrrrY well russian federation is better. russia has became richer ever since 1991
airborne4lf 4 weeks ago
@airborne4lf but the soviets did not invade afghanistan, the socialistic govt of afghanistan called the soviets for help to fight the uprising and rebellion from radical islamists, which were funded by saudia arabia and usa to topple the socialistic govt and make a regime change to a us friendly regime..
the americans destroyed afghanistan two times not only once :)
horror11 3 weeks ago
@horror11 i like the soviet union better than america but afghans didn't like communism because of their disagreement with religion. this is why they rebelled. they weren't radical, just performing jihad. the problem was that they took americas hand during the war. the mujahideen didn't know what they were doing when they took the west's side. in this case, both the soviet union and america was bad.
airborne4lf 3 weeks ago
@TheClone3000 FOX news is not a reliable news source.. Viva Green Libya .. Viva Muammar Gaddafi
DarkprinX2500 3 months ago
no im talking about the people that are (A) so poor they have to leave (B) there familys were killed by fidle (c) they are chared with a crime of speaking out (D) they are carged with a crime they did not commet (F) are they want to get to america but the govenment wont let them leave. dont try to say that all of the people who come here are crimanal. your not cuban nor do you know anyone who is cuban , you act like you know more than the cuban people who are there you sick fuck.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@GAMEPHSYCO sorry but your roung ,how about you go to cuba and see how good there heathcare is.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
The like-bar is a lit Cuban cigarr
Sahandroid 3 months ago 5
communism is literally for the people and only for the people. Mao tse tung fought for communism most likely because he was sick of how the rich were leeching off of the poor and he fought for those poor people. Yes, he killed a lot of people, but america is responsible for that as well; crime is only really happening in capitalist societies which kills many people because money is such a factor on them. Either way, governments have to kill their people because either they love money or equality
Fergusforslipknot 3 months ago
wow u guys are stupid. dont come here if you think communism is wrong. do you know that what the US government does worse. well i shouldnt say worse becuase castro didnt do anything wrong. but if you got like forgeign international news they'll tell you what america does. they abuse every 3rd world country to make money and relations. look what they did to iraq and afghanistan. the US has an imperialistic gov
airborne4lf 3 months ago
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Fergusforslipknot 3 months ago
@airborne4lf When was the last time the u.s killed gays in work camps ,when was the last time someone got killed for playing music, when was the last time a u.s citizen left the country by raft at the risk of being eaten by sharks to go to Cuba. DON’T YOU EVEN TELL ME THE USA IS WORES! YOU ARE SICK IN THE HEAD!
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 you're fuckin stupid. i said that the US government hurts foreign people not our people. plus they should be blamed for what they did to the blacks and native americans, but lets not talk about that. the american government is lying, this harsh dictatorship accusation is fake, america wants the government of china overthrown, russia, overthrown, iran overthrown, cuba overthrown, venezuela overthrown, etc. they are hungry for imperialism. dont believe their propaganda.
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 when was the last time communist cuba invaded another country. when was the last time they killed 15 pakistani soldeirs randomly? when was the last time they persecuted china and iran? when was the last time they harvested drugs from afghanistan? when was the last time they killed innocent people in iraq? when was the last time they financed iraq during the iraq-iran war? when was the last time they stole oil? yeah never they never do the evils the american government does.
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf omg all your reasons are idiotic ,most of what you say is crap,"yah the u.s.a totaly did all thoughs things". we never stole oil. Iran you have to be kidding me,its a war zone that we had know chouse but to go,when a country with a crazed dictater says they have nuks that does not leave many options.everything you say can be dibunked. your an idiot if you think a that a government were a leader can kill someone just for shits and giggles ,is better than a free country!
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 this free country shit blinds all of u. you think only so much about your freedoms(and yes im american) that you leave all the foreign issues for the government to think about. we need a revolution. you dont understand the government as much as i do. they do steal oil, you think the iraqi people actually give it up. and why do most middle eastern countries have pro-american thrones? you think the other arabs would give up what they have too. what about the imports from south americ
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf we do not take there gold you lier , if there selling oil to us we are not taking it were buying it ,your so full of it. you have it backwards i understand government more ,because i know that communism alwase fails it has never worked out for anyone,just try to name one time were it has ,you cant.and you have to be kiding me. how about you get out of the us and go to cuba were it is so great,no one is making you stay unlike in cuba when you get in you cant get out.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 they rip them off and take their produce for very cheap prices cus they'e poor. and in afghanistan they say the taliban are dealing heroin even though its actually them.they also take the gold they get from there. tell me, who does it actually belong too. how are you proud to say that your government literally takes from other countries? and as for iran they know this this is why they threaten us and israel.they want us to back off they wont hurt america until they make the1st move
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf if you go to cuba you will see first hand how great it is . you will be poor just geting by to survive , you cant lisen to the music you like are you will get beat up by the secret polise. you right casto is a great leader ,killing gays is not roung ,your right cuba has never harmed anyone are done anything bad( cuban missle crisis) say what you want, but its all trash even in the usa darkest days like slavery we didnt do nerly anything close to cuba.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 are you serious? you know nothing about cuba. its legal to be gay there and cuba is like a home of music. and castro helped cuba a lot. its too much to explain but his documentries can tell, he made the place better even when soviet russia toppled. this man is a hero, he took down that other dictator who sided with united states. the cmc wasnt a mission aimed at civilians but american bases, they bullshitting, he even called the reporters wonderful he wouldnt attack civilians
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf
look at the link and do some reserch, he is not a hero, you are blind I dont know how anyone can idilize this man,yah he took down a dictater to put aother dictater in his place, a worse one, even if casro was a great leader ,eventuly there will be a leader like moa or hitler so on. your a fool. why havent you moved to cuba if it is so good.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 those dictators are selfish and they didnt care about their people. castro has passion for his country. he made health and education better, and saying that this cuban dictatoship was worse than black slavery discusts me. how do you not recognize the 100s of years of torture and hard work that those people had to go through? do they kill you just for being another race in cuba? and who cares about homosexuals, that subject comes at the same time with westernization.
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf slavery is in the past yes it is terible,there is no dening that but at that time everyone had slaves us, england ,even africans inslaved other tribes.castro has killed gays in work camps and you says he cares about the people....ok. castro is doing this now, the human race has evolved ,and become smarter seans then. i love america even if it has a bad history that,for some reason we get the blam and everyone did it. castro has not made helth beter that is myth.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 think about these 2 questions: from which source are you explaining what castro did and didnt do? is that source from american media?
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf the man idmeted it
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 no he didnt. who even told you that? you've been conditioned to much by american views
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf you can belive what you want but you and i know people would rather leave cuba by raft at the risk of being eaten by sharks,drowning ,or starving than staying in cuba.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 exactly either your proposing your own opinions or you're just listening to some guy who ignorantly hates communism.you watch too much american news, u need to listen to international news even al jazeera tells more truth.its enough that america had 9/11 happen and made osama say he was the one who did it.and then america is in debt for trillions of dollars with china and they wont even pay them back.TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. face it the US government is corrupt you just a dumb patriot
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf so in other words im right your roung, so you just start mud slinging I dont know how you can deiny that there are cuban leaving by raft from cuba ,thats fact in every country. AND HOW DID THE USA MAKE OSAMA SAY HE CAUSED 9/11 THATS JUST STUPID WE CANT MAKE SOMEONE SAY ANYTHING, EXSPESHILY WHEN HE WAS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY! it does not mater what news you lisen to every news network will tell you both of these statments are fact, unless its a comunnist because they countrol the meida.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 america created the taliban and bin laden is a cia agent
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf you crazy
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Lmao, Bin Laden was trained by the CIA in the 80s. Al-Qaeda, and Taliban are a product of United States, it's common knowledge. You also don't know shit about Cuba.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx i know that but that does not mean he is a cia agent or we caused 9/11 and am afrade your the one who dont know shit about cuba , i dont know how cuban people can come to the usa by raft say what a terible place it is and you still think its a great place .
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 you're so stupid you probably think ww3 would come in the form as an islamic terrorist attack. you probably think the cold war is over. go study before arguing but dont always read your school textbooks
airborne4lf 3 months ago
@airborne4lf i see how you roll ,you start name calling after i put facts on the table and then tell me to study history as if you have proved me rong ,without puting facts on the table yourself. i think you need to learn your history.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Cuba has free health care, and free education, the only reason why it's in terrible condition aside from that, is because of US imposed sanctions. Want to know what the CIA planned to do in the 60s? Hijack plans and crash them into key buildings in the US, and blame it on Cuba to justify a war with them. This was declassified information given by the CIA themselves. So who is to say they wouldn't do it in the future, when they had the gall to think it up in the 60s.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Also if Cuba is so bad, why did Fidel send 50,000 Cuban soldiers to South Africa to liberate Blacks from a oppressive White Government?
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx you keep telling yourself that there helth care is great hold on to that myth , and you are oviusly lieing or your geting this from some comsperisy web site, and even if there was a bad egg in the cia it didnt happen so the system works ,cuba is also a terible place because 1 people dont have freedom of speech or prees fidle even admited that. 2 you can be killed just for speaking out. and 3 because castro is in power :)
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 You're ridiculous. Clearly no point in even trying to reason with you. Castro is not in power by the way. His brother is.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx yah not anymore but its still bad, maby its because you dont have cubans washing up on your shore that you think he is a great man, but how about you look up some intervews with cuban people in america and they will tell you.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 You mean the criminals that are thrown out of Cuba, and are the biggest contributors of criminal activity in the Southern States like Florida, and Louisiana? Seriously, where the fuck do you get your information? What do you even know about the Cuban struggle?
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx I actuly have a freinds that are cuban one has a grandmother that cant leave cuba because the government wont let her . your an idiot were do you get the idea that castro is a good man , hole famalys were killed by him , he said after the revolution they would turn democratic (he lied) how about you talk to some cubans in florida and see what they think of casto ,your sick it the head you know that.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Yeah, I am sick in the head because I don't share your demented, narrow minded opinions on Cuba? The US dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japanese cities, inflicting major civilians casualties, and radioactive effects for years to come. Yet Fidel is evil, because US propaganda says he is?
Sinvx 3 months ago
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@Sinvx ok you selecting your facts , you say we dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan, as if we did it for shits and giggles. It was ether that we drop 2 bombs are lose countless lives of soldiers, so am glad that we did it cause they did it to just with smaller bombs. And we did kill civilians in Vietnam (both sides were doing it)its called civilian warfare I think. not saying I agree with it, but that’s all we did ,your just taking the actions of a few bad eggs and saying everyone did it.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@Sinvx castro has killed inccont people just for disagreeing ,he is a terible man,am not saying we should never forgive cuba ,but we sould never forgive castro ,he should be carged with war crimes. and i never said that the usa did everything right in the world we have done stuff that is bad , but castro has killed countless people for no reason and stupid people like you love him. im not going to say that america did everything right cause we havent but nether has canada.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@Sinvx stop trying to mix war killings with a dictator that just kills for shits and giggles.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Lmao, you really are simple.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx am going to assum you didnt read the 2 before my last one because it didnt show up on your inbox
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 I did read it, and don't believe it. They say the same shit about Ghaddafi(RIP) and Assad in Libya and Syria. Yet first week of the peaceful protests, the protesters are pulling tanks, trucks with Anti-Aircraft weaponry attached to them, insane amounts of firearms and Rocket propelled gernades, in Libya, not sure where all those "peaceful protesters" got that.
Sinvx 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Same deal in Syria, armed men walking with unarmed men, using them as shields, firing into security forces/riot police. When they fire back, Syrian government is condemned for killing "protesters". These protesters are also being armed to the teeth, and trained in Egypt, and Turkey. Just like before the Libya stuff, they were being trained in Egypt, and armed.
How is this related you ask? US did the exact same with Cuba, they armed Cuban exiles, and trained them, and sent em back.
Sinvx 3 months ago
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@Sinvx see the thing is your going agenst fact here , ghaddafi did kill unarmed people ,the civilans didnt have wepons are anything before nato gave it to them. am glad ghaddafi is dead he was a murrderer to. am begining to think your just one of thoughs people who supports people like this just for the sake of rebeling no matter if the outcome is good are bad
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 Lets not forget what US did in Vietnam, raped women in front of their children. Then murdered the children, then the mother, scalped their heads, cut off their ears, fingers, toes, for collections. Yeah, you think the US is everything right in the world, but because I don't agree I am sick in the head...
Sinvx 3 months ago
@Sinvx and let me guss you hate that the usa went to irac ,but you your fine when it is cuba. and its ovius that when you said there white government that you see one race and you see the enemy
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@airborne4lf and i lisen to all networks of news even ones i hate,your going aganst fact my freind. and I want you to tell me wy you don't leave the usa , no one is making you stay ,go to cuba ,but be carful once you become a citizen of cuba they wont let you leave.
TheClone3000 3 months ago
@TheClone3000 and yes americans took gold from afghanistan, they mined all of it for themselves and left native afghans dying of hunger
airborne4lf 3 months ago
GRANDE FIDEL LES ROMPEMOS EL CULO ALOS YANKEES POR ESO NOS DICEN CRIMINALES
Bambinoxx12 3 months ago
fidel castro he is a man who all the world love him
Historyoftheworld88 3 months ago
@Aiktai I see you follow the S.O.P of the comunist.
#1.Discredit opposition
#2.Tell the people lies to turn them on target person.
#3.Show target to be guilty at show trial.
#4.30 plus years in prison or exicuted.
561tran 3 months ago
4 dislike cuba
iguanasrule1 3 months ago
Reporter " Are you a communist Fidel ? "
Fidel " Well, wait for history, history will dictate who we are "
thisiskris017 3 months ago
I see castro has a lot of his people watching these comments and they are instructed to talk good of fidel.Well I would like to tell theme that communism will fall one day and revenge will be paid in full.Abajo la revoulucion,Abajo Fidel FUCK COMMUNISM!
561tran 3 months ago
@561tran Please shut up Bush! You do this everytime making fake accounts and posting stupit commentrys.
aiktai 3 months ago
Every time I see that shitty beard of his it makes me want to upchuck so bad... I hope he's dead and burning in hell right now!
RANDOMFREAKSHOWCO 3 months ago
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MrHaxorFox 3 months ago
sin palabras chequea este discurso...
elvisbent 3 months ago
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MrWatchmen759 4 months ago
talks like manny pacquiao
RiONfromHeLL 4 months ago
That's America for you. Hate this country, hate that country. There's ALWAYS an excuse for them to teach people to hate countries, and certain people from different countries such as the Cubans themselves. Then they wonder why black people are still angry even with one as President.
Can't really blame them for taking back Cuba when the U.S. was just using it to make money to start with. And years later, Cuba still cares for it's people where America only cares for corporations and money
LivinWorstNightmare 4 months ago
@LivinWorstNightmare I find that North korea is the big hater..always hating the worldand asking for food aid??
am1966ath 4 months ago
@LivinWorstNightmare CUBA CARING FOR IT'S PEOPLE? HA! FUNNIEST THING I SAW TODAY! If they cared so much for the people, why do they (Castro and his cronies) starve the people while they eat like kings in their mansions? Why do they take away private property and innocent lives who disagree? At least in America you have the right to live, though perhaps not for long after the commie's infiltrated here have their way, but let's pray not and do what we can.
RANDOMFREAKSHOWCO 3 months ago
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Muchas personas hablan mucha porqueria sobre Fidel Castro. Pero recuerden que si no fuera por el todas las familias de los cubanos prinsiparmente las mujeres fueran todas unas prostitutas del hijodeputa de Batista. Aprendan a agradeser a un personaje que les salbo el culo y el bollo a todas sus madres, abuelas,tias sus propias mujeres, y sus hermanas si es que tienen. dejen de hablar porqueria bola de gusaneros. Yo no le tengo miedo a nadie a la hora de desir la verdad
MMDDYY1000 5 months ago
Reporter: Are you a communist, Fidel?
Castro: Well... wait for the history; the history will tell what we are. You don't know anything about it.
TheGodslonelyman 5 months ago