Cuba is not socialist. All Castro's are Stalinists, defenders of a bureaucracy over the workers. Cuba will never become socialist under the Castro regimes.
Cuba needs a genuine revolution, a workers revolution against the Cuban party bureaucracy and US imperialism.
@UDSS If what you are saying is true then how is it that Cuba did not fall with the rest of the Soviet Union back in "91? The Castros are not stalinists. When was the last time you've heard of China, Laos, Vietnam or N Korea organizing teams of doctors to go to third world countries and offer free medical help to the wretchedly poor? Or save Angola from the spread of Apartied? When did Kim Jong-il ever go on tours to promote proleterian solidarity among the 3rd world? Cuba is the real deal.
QUE BARBAROS SON TODOS LOS QUE DEFIENDEN LA DICTADURA CASTRISTA SIN DECIDIRSE A VIVIR EN CUBA, COMO CUBANOS !!!
TODOS LOS QUE DEFIENDEN LA TIRANIA CASTRISTA Y VIVEN EN OTROS PAISES, LOS INVITO A DISFRUTAR DEL PARAISO QUE HAN CONSTRUIDO LOS CASTROS EN CUBA, QUE LARGUEN SUS PASAPORTES Y CIUDADANIAS Y SE VAYAN A VIVIR A CUBA, QUE ARRIBEN EN MASAS, ALLI LES DARAN LOS PAPELES, PARA QUE DISFRUTEN Y GOCEN DEL SOCIALISMO EN CARNE VIVA, PERO COMO CUBANOS, NO CON LOS PRIVILEGIOS DE SER EXTRANJEROS.
The Cuban Stalinist bureaucracy can no longer keep their lies alive. The economy of Cuba is ruined, the central planned economy fails again and again, because the workers have no right to participate in the planning.
Now Cuba must choose. Socialism can only come by democratic means, a nightmare for Raul Castro and his Stalinist party. So why not capitalism? Capitalism does not need democracy, just look at China or Vietnam? Stalinism is dying in Cuba.
hhahaha wake up, fidel is the only one with dignity and he is the moral of the world. Yes there is problems in cuba, but with blockade in 60 years, sho would hav survived.? no one. USA act as God an try to control. either you follow there system otherwise your are are dictator! the truth is that every country have its right to do it in there own way and the wishes of its people.- Cuba and fidel is an example of that.- and I am not a communist or cuban, but never forget that fiedel is tru leader
Cuba doesn't have a president, the Castro's are dictators that killed thousands of Cubans in order to enforce their warped socialist regime. Most Cubans would agree with me that the best thing we can do is get rid of our current system of government it hasn't worked in 50 years and it will never work.
While the Castro's live in their mansion we the people are struggling to survive on $10 per day. We want the Freedom capitalism allows you to obtain.
@1xosue what freedoms would those be?; the freedom not to afford healthcare?, the freedom to be in debt forever?; the freedom to pay taxes to support unjust wars?; the freedom to choose two parties who will put the interests of the rich above the people of your socio-economic class?. I'm half-Cuban and I don't agree. I've been to the island several times and the only oppression I saw there was the one created by the US imposed illegal trade embargo. Socialism in Cuba will work better without it.
yeah it is gonna be an utopia it is not gonna survive the socialism in cuba ,,,,cuba will be lost and be sank in the caribbean sea when revolution is over jajajajajaja thats so good thou!!!
@comotose762 Because none of that happened. And for you to call Fidel a racist is ridiculous. This shows you know nothing about him. "Of all the forms of racial discrimination the worst is the one that limits the colored Cuban's access to jobs". One of his best friends during the revolution Juan Almeida is black.
Mariela Castro's a hero for fighting for LGBT rights, all her critics who say she's just getting attention for being the president's daughter are wrong. Like she said, she's pushing for these laws as the head of CENESEX, which she personally founded, not as the president's daughter. Quit judging so blindly and look at the good she's done.
Yea real Progressive She is a Princess... Who like all monarchs get special treatments and an elite LIFE. MARIELLA CASTRO Just move to your villa in Italy and leave the Cuban people alone!
Mariela Castro: ¿Has you ever buy your clothes or food by the ration card that has been bothering cuban's population for almost 50 years?. ¿Has you ever suffer the effects of the so called economic blockade?. ¿Don't you really know who is keeping Cuba from developing?. ¡Come on now!.
Se ve clarísimo que esta doctorcita Mariela Castro no se mueve ni está al tanto de la realidad de Pánfilo y otros cubanos de piel oscura que no tienen jama, comida...esta mujer es una privilegiada desconectada del hambre de su pueblo...
This fem is the recipient of all the power and wealth her family stole from the Cuban people. She was raised an elite and will never 'see' the pain and suffering her family brought to Cuba. In her mind she is always going to be the 'daughter' of great reformers, proud of them, blind to the truth of what they've done!
@SocialistCatholic Do you understand the term "Bullshit'? Because saying anyone created a Utopia is just stupid. I measure the Castros based on how many Cubans they slaughtered to take over the island and how the Castros used their power to stay in charge. Utopia? Bullshit! Bautista? Bullshit slinging murderer, like Castor!
At 17 and a part of the EU YOU are the indoctrinated (lied to) one. I know which were killed (without due process- you do know what that is, right?), just put in front of a wall and gunned down. Do you know any Cubans? I do! So go blow all your smoke at other trained idiots, like yourself.
You must always expect correction when you say untruth. You were raised to a set of lies as your truth, and your acceptance due to your age and indoctrination are understandable; but you believe lies. You are to be pitied, as the Hitler Youth were pitied after WW2.
@mallardhead In fact i am not raised with lies, my parents aren't socialists nor my friends. And school won't favorise socialist countries, right. So how can you say i am indoctrinated?
About killing, if Castro is such a murderer and the US stays for peace and freedom, now why did the US finance and lead a contra-revolution? So that Batista could be rich like hell and the people poor like shit? I respect Castro and his actions, and i will support him no matter what.
I agree the US govt made wrong choices in dealing with other nations. It is responsible for much death and mayhem. That's Progressivism, which must be stopped!
You don't have to be a pseudo-socialist for your govt to screw your education with lies. The EU is a Progressive govt. Progs want govt control over all People everywhere. They get it by controlling everything.
I'll take G.Washington over Castro. He wasn't perfect but he did not slaughter people to become a dictator!
The US did a shty job at sponsering the contra revolution. There have been MANY attempts to overthrow Castro not US sponsered. Its normal to dissent against a dictatorship!
There is only ONE nation in all of Latin America where children don't spend the night on the streets homeless ... only ONE nation in all of Latin America where every child has free schooling and healthcare ...
This is machiavellian!! In minute four when they talk about same sex unions they show film of women wearing all white in a march for human rights...those women are actuall "Las Damas de Blanco" who march on behalf of their husbands jailed as political prisoners!!! They have nothing to do with same sex unions!!!
Do note that the documentary is made by russians (no longer communists) not by Cubans. Which only goes to show that lying is not socialist monopoly. "democrats" ly much more. Just look at the spectacular self-destruction of this other utopia: capitalism. It is all one big Ponzi scheme. All lies, wars, destruction and suffering. On a grand scale. Socialism looks great compared with capitalism.
The propaganda you write doesn't negate what CitizenCindy has written which is the truth "It is the bureaucratic ruling class running the CCP" in Cuba.
The blinding propaganda against Cuba in the U$ renders U$ citizens incapable of knowing in what high esteem Cuba is held in other parts of the world.
One really has to live in Cuba to experience the beauty of the system. The deprived people of the U$ can't comprehend what it would be like to have no homeless people, free education, the right to food etc. Where a poverty of social justice reigns as it does in the US, there's no hope of understanding the equality in Cuba.
You can find "good" in all things even in tyranny. Take a look at the economy of Germany during the Hitler era, great economy. Does that take away from the evil things done by him and his government? Compassion is something many don't seem to get here. For those who lost family, loved ones to executions (televised on tv), torture and so many heinous acts there is a raw emotion felt for Castro and his regime. Until you walk in those shoes don't be so quick to judge!
I hope Miss Castro understands that socialism is not welfare, it is economic control of the people. What Cuba needs too is abolition of political ownership and control too for the people. Economic capital, symbolic capital and social capital must be controlled democratically, unlike in the West or Cuba, in order to have socialist policy
The problem of existing forms of collective control is hierarchy, a structure that gives the term collective a perverted meaning. There is hardly any modern society on Earth that would be truly Socialist, because the symbolic forms of capital are controlled by tyrants. Don't be touchy, I mean all societies
It is the bureaucratic ruling class running the CCP, NOT the workers, that it is in control of production and distribution in Cuba. The mass of Cuba's workers have little influence in the CCP, which they cannot even personally join. The Asambleas del Poder Popular too is a tool of the state, in which members are not even allowed to nominate a particular candidate without the preapproval of the government. Indeed, the Asambleas have little power to do anything other than carry out the
decisions made by the state bureaucracy. Neither can the masses be said to have control over the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution or the Union of Communist Youth. Both exist only to rally the public to state (ie bureaucratic) causes and desires. The CDR also reports any dissent in the populace, including that of those loyal to the Marxist tradition of Lenin and Trotsky.
CitizenCindy I am impressed with your knowledge of the Cuban situation. How have you become so enlightened? Too many people choose to see a country of "the people" working & fighting together when the reality is the opposite. Many can't understand the reality of a country where the people have no voice and live in constant fear of being reported to the state & paying the price. The people don't have a voice something we take for granted here in the US. That's why so many die trying to get here.
As someone who takes Marxist theory very seriously it's important to me that nations/governments that identify themselves with Marxism do not do so erroneously, misleading the world public as to the real meaning of the term. Marx and Engels could not have been any more clear: "The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy." (The Communist Manifesto)
The idea that Cuba, where the higher ups in the CCP control the state and therefore the economy and surplus, where the workers have no real control of the means of production and are essentially an exploited class, the idea that this passes for 'socialism' makes me want to pull my hair out. Of course I wholly oppose the ambitions of imperialists towards Cuba, but I also oppose the position of many leftists that because of the positive gains of the revolution (such as health care)
Marxists should be satisfied with Cuban 'socialism' as is. These people forget that socialism is the emancipation of the working class, not merely the establishment of a welfare state.
Your not wrong, but being a 3rd camp doesn't mean that you support US imperialism against Cuba. Cuba isn't socialist, its state-capitalist, but I would rather be poor in Cuba than elsewhere in Latin America. At least I get free health care, education, a right to housing, a society without racism.
Be careful when playing into the hand of imperialism
As I wrote 6 days ago "Of course I wholly oppose the ambitions of imperialists towards Cuba." I have absolutely no desire to see imperialists institute a puppet bourgeois "democracy" within Cuba. The only positive solution I see to the Cuban situation is the socialist transformation of Latin America. The Cuban bureaucracy will fall to pieces if workers governments become the rule rather than the exception in Latin America. Thus, it is vital that we support workers movements in the Latin nations.
If you'd rather live poor in Cuba than anywhere else in Latin America & you're against US imperialism, it would serve you well to move to Cuba. But you're wrong in the statement that there's no racism in Cuba. Recommend you read a book written by a black Cuban, Carlos Moore. He protested against discrimination in the early days of the Revolucion & was sent to Labor Camps. Look up Maleconazo in 1994, blacks revolted in Havana, nothing changed though Castro said it would/80% prisoners are black.
bhaskie that is where you are wrong. I lived there & the healthcare for the Cuban people is substandard. We bring our own sheets & supplies to hospital; depend on family in the states for aspirin & vitamins. As far as no racism, it's alive & well. 80% prisoners are black & small % are in high government positions. Castro is the great manipulator, making Cuba look as if it's an equality paradise. Read the book "Pichon" to see first hand what a Cuban black man lives with the great Revolution.
Castro has always maintained that socialism is a process not an end. You are right that somethings aren't happeing in Cuba as they should. But those things have to happened as the working class sees fit to happen. The Cuban government has changed as the people themselves have change. One example is the waving of American flags in public. In the 1960s this would've been unthinkable. But it is allowed today because the new generation of Cubans see the American working class as themselves, workers.
rednemesis you live in a wonderful world, where Cubans actually have rights and are represented, keep living there while the rest of Cubans live in the real world. As my family says regarding Raul "there's new curtains but the room looks the same" and that's because they have to say things in code out of fear.
I live in a "wonderful" world? I live the life of an exploited and oppressed member of the American working class. I guess you can say that I live just like the majority of Cubans do even though I might have access to more products or sevices than they do; even if such products & services are of less quality that those in the higher classes. So yeah, I guess you can say that me & the people in my socio-economic class have a kind of embago enforced on us too. I never said that Cuba was a paradise
Red but you did say that Cuba was great the way it is. I simply responded to all of your adoration of that Cuban system you speak of where the people are the ones that have a say and civil rights(not the same one I lived under). I'm confused, if you're Cuban & you agree with that govmnt, why aren't you living there? Why live in the US in misery and this so called "embargo" enforced on people living here in certain socio- economic class? Why live under this evil capitalistic system?
Because the greatest ally that the Cuban people have is the American workers and farmers themselves. They have the power to organize and compell the US government to lift the embargo. Thats why Im still here. To countermand the lies of the Cuban-American right wing. So that we will have true genuine socialism here in the grand US of A. Besides, you do not have the moral nor ethical right to tell me where to go. Cuba doesn't need another mouth to feed. It needs to have the embargo lifted.
red aren't you a man of great morals as IF you're the only one against the embargo. Get off your high & mighty throne open your eyes & know that MANY Cubans here in the US are against the embargo. That has NOTHING 2 do w/ you making it seem as if Castro has been the great saviour of Cubans & that the Cuban people are the ones running Cuba, because that's a lie. What MANY of us want is the embargo 2 end, a Cuba Libre that's nationalistic & the rights of the Cuban people restored!
red you might also be interested in knowing that when it comes to Cuba it isn't all black & white, it's no longer the old war of Batista vs Castro or left vs right, there are MANY of us that see things for what they really are. The only people suffering are the Cubans on the island, they deserve cambio & an end of this oppressive Castro regime. They deserve our support 2 get this & they alone should one day be able to govern themselves don't pretend they are doing so now, that's insulting!
I think you are confusing Cuba with the USSR. Seventy percent of the ruling body of the Cuban government come from the working class itself. That could only mean that the interests of the lower classes will be fulfilled. The USSR never had that. Alot of the things you have posted have never happened on the island.
Diabla....aquella es una demonia...admirando su familia....este porqueria y mentira que se llaman ellos mismo la familia Castro...que se castraron los huevos de los Castros XD....soy cubano y Cuba vaya tener mas riqueza sin este comemierda....Viva Cuba por siempre...
I agree with a significant portion of what Ms. Castro says here, but the fact is that Cuba has never been "socialistic." The mass of Cuban workers played no significant role in the Cuban revolution, nor does a worker's government or democratic worker's control of the means of production and distribution exist in Cuba. Rather, state control is in the hands of a small beauracracy made up of former guerillas (such as Ms. Castro's father).
I recognize and support the many positive reforms made by the Cuban revolution, but I am not going to simply ignore the fact that what exists in Cuba is a bureaucratic, state capitalist distortion of socialism, and not at all the real thing. Indeed, the false idea that Cuba is a "communist" country has only fed the gross misunderstanding of workers in the US and elsewhere of the authentic meaning of that term. It has become synonymous with rule by a single dictator. That is a serious problem.
Frankly. the fact that so long after 1959 gays in Cuba are still fighting to be treated as equals shows explicitly that Cuba has not achieved "socialism." Bolshevik Russia did away with anti-gay laws in 1918 (the October revolution occurred in 1917). Australian socialist Lisa Macdonald writes: "The 1918 Code on Marriage, the Family and Guardianship ... recognized only civil marriage which by 1927 was a simple registration process based on mutual consent."
She goes on: "In 1926, de facto relationships were given legal equality." (I'm quoting Lisa Macdonald from her introduction to "On the Emancipation of Women," a collection of writings and speeches by Lenin on female liberation).Of course, many of these reforms were reversed under Stalin's anti-revolutionary bureaucracy.
Mariela is marrried to a Millionaire Italian Businessman. If this Russian reporter wants to interview the Castro family. They sould go to Miami and interview Fidel 2 daughters and his 2 sisters who live in the Coral Gables area or Che Guevara's grandson Canek who fled Cuba to Mexico.
You dont even know me and your calling me an idiot? Am I not FREE to have an opinion? And why would you say Im anti american. People like you are so judgemental. It is easier to label someone without proof (as you just have), than to take the time to make accusations based on fact. Nice one mate...hahaha!
"Communism is only way to democracy and freedom", Karl Marx wouldnt even agree with you on that. I quote Karl Marx, "democracy is the road to socialism". I also quote Lenin "The goal of socialism is communism." You statement is backwards, go back to school.I thought Scandinavians are supposed to be well educated.Government is needed to have freedom.Who's gonna protect your rights when the mob votes them away or kills you? hMM?
USA support terrorist Israel state to killing innocent women,children in gaza palatain people. Israel is a terrorist state. Why do not USA tell stop killing in Gaza, palastain. USA invade Iraq, Afganistan(USA get out Russian by creating taliban,jihad,al-kada etc in 80's) next Iran to circle Russia and can attack Russia from every side.KGB says 9/11 was done by Israeli secrete supporter of US Govt. personnel.Free innocent, women are nothings to do with Anti Semitic
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The stupid ignorant comments from pro Castro posters are a shame for humanity. If the regime in Cuba is so good, why not allow free elections? Castro would lose 9 to 1. The only reason why he survives in is because of the cruel and ruthless repression.
Pardon me, the "is" in the Russia satellite comment was meant to be a "was," circa the Soviet Union era.
I think all this video shows is Russia's bias for portraying pretty footage of the tourist sections of Havana and Maria Castro's ability to tout the party line, even though her country is falling apart. Why else would droves of Cubans be building make shift rafts to desperately somehow find a better life in the United States (DUN DUN DUN--a capitalist country!)
"I assure you Cuba is not a satellite of Russia." Why?
She also implies discrimination against homosexuality is something caused by capitalist society. She then turns around and implies socialism is different. But somehow, at the same time, she admits even for Cuba, a socialist nation of the past 50 years, there is discrimination. I see a logically absurd consequence here.
For other reasons as well, this whole report, most of all Maria Castro, is a load of rhetorically charmed bullshit.
I HAVE lived it and irregardless neither I or anybody else needs your permission to have an opinion.
I expatriated from an imperialist country to a socialist one. Every society has good and bad points but I've found the phony capitalist "democracies" are the ones much closer to hell.
The tide is turning against capitalism and imperialism. Between its barbaric wars and the global economic crisis with recession turning into depression (again), capitalism has no future.
kid cuba is the only true socialit nation left on the planet. I live right now in china and you couldn't get much more capitalist then here. So where are you going to get the man power and backing for your revolution? The USSR is dead and communism has gone the way of the dodo here in china. See my is china communist video for more details.
Also i never said capitalism works good but compared to communism it is the lesser of two evils having lived in both. I personally believe in a socialized form of democracy as the best form of goverment. But i'll take anything over communism as its just another form of authoritarian facism minus the state nationalist sentiment.
Yes, if you read any history, other than that tought to us in schools, it shows that Cuba is a caring country, who looks after its poor and has 1 of the very best healthcare systems in the world. They are WAY WAY WAY better than americans on health, homelsness, and EVERYTHIGN socialist
A VERY good example of hwat we wcoudl be like, if we ended hireditory rule.
YES - hirediory in America.
If not, how come the name BUSH keeps coming up?
Prsoctt Bush and 2 G Bushes - ALL senators and presdnts!
Castro's Cuba is a mixed bag. If you're looking for consumer goods, it's a nightmare. Same food, same clothes over and over. But if your concerns are more substantial, Cuba is a model of success - universal education, lowest illiteracy rate in the third world, universal medical care, universal electrification and housing for all. There are no homeless people in Cuba. And Bush would have done well to let the women leaders of Cuban provinces respond to Hurricane Katrina rather than Brownie.
what in gods name has the communism done for people of cuba???at least they dont have to pay a fortune for their dentist,neither they live in trolleys like americans..they dont have to be prostitutes like cubans in miami..neither they are drag dealers like them
Long live Cuban Revolution!! Cuba is an international example of dignity, patriotism and desire of selfdetermination. Cuba is the only latinamerican country that hasn´t turn its head down to USA, it has suffered a criminal and absurd economical blockade and manage itself to survive and provide cubans a great educational, medical and social system. Cubans are very proud and patriotic people, their Revolution is a proof of dignity and moral strengh, that´s why the world admire and respect it.
thats true about gender ID thing medicially proven , well TV news truth ,don,t count on the jew s,a changing ,then again the kkk would back a black over a jew ,lol ,
that's totality uncalled for ,I'm shocked and disturbed by my last statement, you'd think I would retracted it , at this point, as i have the ability , but no, :)
The castro family is so united, that one brother of Fidel and Raul, dosent talk to them, one daughter of Fidel and her mother left Cuba to escape from Fidel.
One sister of Fidel also escape from Cuba...
Even Fidel was only accepted (recognized) by is father after 17 years.
but yes they are a united family??? right, keep saying lies!!!
This lady lies with her mouth full.
Remember lady, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Do I even need to start? One of the best healthcare systems in the world, mass education, rationing of food in crises rather than sale to the highest bidder, land reform (lately Raul introduced usufruct) various other things.
Don't compare Cuba to the USA; compare Cuba to other 3rd world countries with a mass blockade and pretty much no resources.
Lots of things still to be done, but Cuba is an inspiration for what its already achieved
(1) You are a clear product of Cuba's successful propaganda campaign. Cuba does in deed have excellent health care and education systems by 3rd world standards, but Cuba has never been as backwards as the Cuban government or the extreme left has wanted to make everyone believe. Even before the Revolution Cuba had the 2nd highest literacy rate in Latin America (behind Uruguay) and one of the largest urban middle classes in % terms of the region.
(2) Land reform was one of Cuba's biggest failures. Most lands expropriated in the 1960s are currently empty and unproductive and more often than not in the hands of the government. And remember that Cuba is 75% urban.
Food rationing in Cuba has been able to give each person just enough to live above malnutrition, but the reason why Cuba has food rationing in the first place is due to the communist system's inability to produce enough food to allow it's buying and selling in the market.
(3) Furthermore, that rationing system you so praised is not the main source of food for most Cubans who generally depend on remittences from abroad to buy basic goods at "dollar stores" where rationing does not exist or rely on the black market to obtain what they cannot from the government.
Cuba does not have a blockade, Cuba has an embargo imposed by the USA. If Cuba had a blockade it would prevent it from trading with the rest of the world.
(4) That being said, the embargo is the worst foreign policy that the USA could have used in Cuba. It pushed Cuba closer to the Soviets and has given the dictatorship the perfect excuse to justify the economic failure of their system. Everyone likes to blame the embargo but ignore the billions of $ in aid that Cuba got from the USSR for 3 decades. Cuba's economic model has not worked anywhere, with or without embargo. Cubans have no incentive to work and reply on stealing for their needs.
(5) On top of that, add the limitations on individual and political freedoms the Cuban people have endured for 5 decades. 50 years of totalitarian rule are too high of a price to pay for free health care and education.
Castro has achieved the demoralization of the Cuba people, who have been forced to turn to illegal activities for their survival. Castro has been unable to gather support from the youth, most of which are politically apathetic and see no future inside Cuba.
(6) The revolutionary/nationalist fervor of the 1960s is gone and only felt by a minority of people, most of which are in their 60s or older. People in Cuba are more concerned with their day to day well-being and how they will make ends meet tomorrow than attached to any form of political ideology.
Thank you for your comment, but I am not conservative. I am a strong supporter of universal heath care and free education and a strong critic of the US embargo and travel ban to Cuba as it has achieved absolutely nothing. That being said, I am not a brainwashed leftist that idealizes the Cuban government for being something that is not.
I'm a liberal democrat socialist, dont you DARE attempt to patronize me. My family fled Cuba as a result of what happened. My uncle was tortured as a "political prisoner" for 10 years. You are full of yourself, and full of shit.
Don't talk to me like I'm some kind of neocon who doesnt know his ass from his face. I'm a liberal, and from what I can see from what you wrote you think you are too.
Only difference is you dont know how to draw the line between democracy and dictatorship.
johne30587, i would have to agree with you. those stupid fools dont know shit about communism and the destruction that Castro does to those cuban people. I said this because my mother and her family had to move here when she was 6 years old because of what happened. my grandfather was so proud of his heritage as cuban but he also wanted to be free with rights so he moved his family. they do remember when everything started it was a horrible experience for them to see.
whoooouuuu....the communist-capitalists like everywhere on earth from east and west...now all the same
antonKASA2007 2 weeks ago
Communism FTW
REPOMAN24722 8 months ago
Cuba is not socialist. All Castro's are Stalinists, defenders of a bureaucracy over the workers. Cuba will never become socialist under the Castro regimes.
Cuba needs a genuine revolution, a workers revolution against the Cuban party bureaucracy and US imperialism.
UDSS 10 months ago
@UDSS If what you are saying is true then how is it that Cuba did not fall with the rest of the Soviet Union back in "91? The Castros are not stalinists. When was the last time you've heard of China, Laos, Vietnam or N Korea organizing teams of doctors to go to third world countries and offer free medical help to the wretchedly poor? Or save Angola from the spread of Apartied? When did Kim Jong-il ever go on tours to promote proleterian solidarity among the 3rd world? Cuba is the real deal.
rednemesis88 8 months ago
Viva Mariela, Viva Cuba socialista!
Cuba Si, Yankee No!
Freiheit für die Miami 5
DKPqueer 11 months ago
Commie Bitch!
dannyjn 11 months ago
@dannyjn You idiot.
michaelwuzthere 6 months ago
@michaelwuzthere go back in time get a sex change and fuck yourself!
dannyjn 6 months ago
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@dannyjn Thanks for proving my point.
michaelwuzthere 6 months ago
QUE BARBAROS SON TODOS LOS QUE DEFIENDEN LA DICTADURA CASTRISTA SIN DECIDIRSE A VIVIR EN CUBA, COMO CUBANOS !!!
TODOS LOS QUE DEFIENDEN LA TIRANIA CASTRISTA Y VIVEN EN OTROS PAISES, LOS INVITO A DISFRUTAR DEL PARAISO QUE HAN CONSTRUIDO LOS CASTROS EN CUBA, QUE LARGUEN SUS PASAPORTES Y CIUDADANIAS Y SE VAYAN A VIVIR A CUBA, QUE ARRIBEN EN MASAS, ALLI LES DARAN LOS PAPELES, PARA QUE DISFRUTEN Y GOCEN DEL SOCIALISMO EN CARNE VIVA, PERO COMO CUBANOS, NO CON LOS PRIVILEGIOS DE SER EXTRANJEROS.
TIRANOFIDEL 1 year ago
NO ME CANSO...VIVA FIDEL.
Luiscesarx 1 year ago
The Cuban Stalinist bureaucracy can no longer keep their lies alive. The economy of Cuba is ruined, the central planned economy fails again and again, because the workers have no right to participate in the planning.
Now Cuba must choose. Socialism can only come by democratic means, a nightmare for Raul Castro and his Stalinist party. So why not capitalism? Capitalism does not need democracy, just look at China or Vietnam? Stalinism is dying in Cuba.
UDSS 1 year ago
hhahaha wake up, fidel is the only one with dignity and he is the moral of the world. Yes there is problems in cuba, but with blockade in 60 years, sho would hav survived.? no one. USA act as God an try to control. either you follow there system otherwise your are are dictator! the truth is that every country have its right to do it in there own way and the wishes of its people.- Cuba and fidel is an example of that.- and I am not a communist or cuban, but never forget that fiedel is tru leader
00453400 1 year ago
Cuba doesn't have a president, the Castro's are dictators that killed thousands of Cubans in order to enforce their warped socialist regime. Most Cubans would agree with me that the best thing we can do is get rid of our current system of government it hasn't worked in 50 years and it will never work.
While the Castro's live in their mansion we the people are struggling to survive on $10 per day. We want the Freedom capitalism allows you to obtain.
1xosue 1 year ago
@1xosue what freedoms would those be?; the freedom not to afford healthcare?, the freedom to be in debt forever?; the freedom to pay taxes to support unjust wars?; the freedom to choose two parties who will put the interests of the rich above the people of your socio-economic class?. I'm half-Cuban and I don't agree. I've been to the island several times and the only oppression I saw there was the one created by the US imposed illegal trade embargo. Socialism in Cuba will work better without it.
rednemesis88 8 months ago
yeah it is gonna be an utopia it is not gonna survive the socialism in cuba ,,,,cuba will be lost and be sank in the caribbean sea when revolution is over jajajajajaja thats so good thou!!!
MrHitman1959 1 year ago
How come she didn't talk about all the people fidel killed in his gulags and the blacks and gays who were sent to camps to work until they died?
comotose762 1 year ago
@comotose762 Because none of that happened. And for you to call Fidel a racist is ridiculous. This shows you know nothing about him. "Of all the forms of racial discrimination the worst is the one that limits the colored Cuban's access to jobs". One of his best friends during the revolution Juan Almeida is black.
SupremePenguinTone 1 year ago
@comotose762 2:52 I guess they were the "worked to death blacks" you speak of?
SupremePenguinTone 1 year ago
Did they remove the sound on this video??
pulsatingremedy 1 year ago
Mariela Castro's a hero for fighting for LGBT rights, all her critics who say she's just getting attention for being the president's daughter are wrong. Like she said, she's pushing for these laws as the head of CENESEX, which she personally founded, not as the president's daughter. Quit judging so blindly and look at the good she's done.
cyndicate123 1 year ago
Yea real Progressive She is a Princess... Who like all monarchs get special treatments and an elite LIFE. MARIELLA CASTRO Just move to your villa in Italy and leave the Cuban people alone!
NEWYORKLIBRE 1 year ago
castrioti
1337BananaL33TVostok 2 years ago
Mariela Castro: ¿Has you ever buy your clothes or food by the ration card that has been bothering cuban's population for almost 50 years?. ¿Has you ever suffer the effects of the so called economic blockade?. ¿Don't you really know who is keeping Cuba from developing?. ¡Come on now!.
ehacereco 2 years ago
Se ve clarísimo que esta doctorcita Mariela Castro no se mueve ni está al tanto de la realidad de Pánfilo y otros cubanos de piel oscura que no tienen jama, comida...esta mujer es una privilegiada desconectada del hambre de su pueblo...
¡Jama y Libertad para Cuba!
dan1940210768 2 years ago
This fem is the recipient of all the power and wealth her family stole from the Cuban people. She was raised an elite and will never 'see' the pain and suffering her family brought to Cuba. In her mind she is always going to be the 'daughter' of great reformers, proud of them, blind to the truth of what they've done!
mallardhead 2 years ago
Yes because President Batista was a wonderful man who created a utopia for everyone. Measure The Castros to Batista before writing.
SocialistCatholic 2 years ago
@SocialistCatholic Do you understand the term "Bullshit'? Because saying anyone created a Utopia is just stupid. I measure the Castros based on how many Cubans they slaughtered to take over the island and how the Castros used their power to stay in charge. Utopia? Bullshit! Bautista? Bullshit slinging murderer, like Castor!
mallardhead 2 years ago
@mallardhead Guantanamo? Bullshit! Embargo? Bullshit!
Keep going mate, for you have been indoctrinated in the holy land US.
You should know which Cubans were killed, then talk okay?
LelouchDiBritannia 2 years ago
@LelouchDiBritannia
At 17 and a part of the EU YOU are the indoctrinated (lied to) one. I know which were killed (without due process- you do know what that is, right?), just put in front of a wall and gunned down. Do you know any Cubans? I do! So go blow all your smoke at other trained idiots, like yourself.
mallardhead 2 years ago
@mallardhead Your answer was as expected.
LelouchDiBritannia 2 years ago
@LelouchDiBritannia
You must always expect correction when you say untruth. You were raised to a set of lies as your truth, and your acceptance due to your age and indoctrination are understandable; but you believe lies. You are to be pitied, as the Hitler Youth were pitied after WW2.
mallardhead 2 years ago
@mallardhead In fact i am not raised with lies, my parents aren't socialists nor my friends. And school won't favorise socialist countries, right. So how can you say i am indoctrinated?
About killing, if Castro is such a murderer and the US stays for peace and freedom, now why did the US finance and lead a contra-revolution? So that Batista could be rich like hell and the people poor like shit? I respect Castro and his actions, and i will support him no matter what.
LelouchDiBritannia 2 years ago
@LelouchDiBritannia
I agree the US govt made wrong choices in dealing with other nations. It is responsible for much death and mayhem. That's Progressivism, which must be stopped!
You don't have to be a pseudo-socialist for your govt to screw your education with lies. The EU is a Progressive govt. Progs want govt control over all People everywhere. They get it by controlling everything.
I'll take G.Washington over Castro. He wasn't perfect but he did not slaughter people to become a dictator!
mallardhead 2 years ago
@LelouchDiBritannia
The US did a shty job at sponsering the contra revolution. There have been MANY attempts to overthrow Castro not US sponsered. Its normal to dissent against a dictatorship!
NEWYORKLIBRE 1 year ago
I've always had a lotta respect for Mariela Castro and her Cenesex organization.
blahblahblah8183 2 years ago 3
russia y todos los socialista dictadores.
ghettoclaw 2 years ago
preguntales a los cubanos que es
DIVERSIONISMO IDEOLOGICO
DIVERSIONISMO IDEOLOGICO
DIVERSIONISMO IDEOLOGICO
DIVERSIONISMO IDEOLOGICO
Sikitraqui 2 years ago
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There is only ONE nation in all of Latin America where children don't spend the night on the streets homeless ... only ONE nation in all of Latin America where every child has free schooling and healthcare ...
that ONE country is CUBA
4Barbudos 2 years ago
This is machiavellian!! In minute four when they talk about same sex unions they show film of women wearing all white in a march for human rights...those women are actuall "Las Damas de Blanco" who march on behalf of their husbands jailed as political prisoners!!! They have nothing to do with same sex unions!!!
fabhurt71 2 years ago
Do note that the documentary is made by russians (no longer communists) not by Cubans. Which only goes to show that lying is not socialist monopoly. "democrats" ly much more. Just look at the spectacular self-destruction of this other utopia: capitalism. It is all one big Ponzi scheme. All lies, wars, destruction and suffering. On a grand scale. Socialism looks great compared with capitalism.
moniquitus1 2 years ago
The propaganda you write doesn't negate what CitizenCindy has written which is the truth "It is the bureaucratic ruling class running the CCP" in Cuba.
anaelena65 2 years ago 2
Viva Fidel !
El Che Vive <3
Hasta la Victoria Siempre <3
4Barbudos 2 years ago
eso es lo unico que tu sabes desir?
miguelangelh33157 2 years ago
mijo el che ya se murio y fidel va en camino...asi que lamento decepsionarte.
ghettoclaw 2 years ago
el che vive en mi corazon!
martinbuito11 2 years ago
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The blinding propaganda against Cuba in the U$ renders U$ citizens incapable of knowing in what high esteem Cuba is held in other parts of the world.
One really has to live in Cuba to experience the beauty of the system. The deprived people of the U$ can't comprehend what it would be like to have no homeless people, free education, the right to food etc. Where a poverty of social justice reigns as it does in the US, there's no hope of understanding the equality in Cuba.
4Barbudos 2 years ago
The revolution is not perfect but it has accomplished many good things. If you are a brainwashed "rightist", you fail to understand this concept.
sfbest 2 years ago
You can find "good" in all things even in tyranny. Take a look at the economy of Germany during the Hitler era, great economy. Does that take away from the evil things done by him and his government? Compassion is something many don't seem to get here. For those who lost family, loved ones to executions (televised on tv), torture and so many heinous acts there is a raw emotion felt for Castro and his regime. Until you walk in those shoes don't be so quick to judge!
anaelena65 2 years ago
I don't recall Castro ever annexing countries or killing jews
rednemesis88 2 years ago
I hope Miss Castro understands that socialism is not welfare, it is economic control of the people. What Cuba needs too is abolition of political ownership and control too for the people. Economic capital, symbolic capital and social capital must be controlled democratically, unlike in the West or Cuba, in order to have socialist policy
teemuruskeepaa 3 years ago
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm so glad to finally read that from somebody.
CitizenCindy 2 years ago
When was the last time you visited Cuba?
The economy of Cuba is collectively controlled by the people. Why do you think they have block commities.
rednemesis88 2 years ago
The problem of existing forms of collective control is hierarchy, a structure that gives the term collective a perverted meaning. There is hardly any modern society on Earth that would be truly Socialist, because the symbolic forms of capital are controlled by tyrants. Don't be touchy, I mean all societies
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
It is the bureaucratic ruling class running the CCP, NOT the workers, that it is in control of production and distribution in Cuba. The mass of Cuba's workers have little influence in the CCP, which they cannot even personally join. The Asambleas del Poder Popular too is a tool of the state, in which members are not even allowed to nominate a particular candidate without the preapproval of the government. Indeed, the Asambleas have little power to do anything other than carry out the
CitizenCindy 2 years ago 2
decisions made by the state bureaucracy. Neither can the masses be said to have control over the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution or the Union of Communist Youth. Both exist only to rally the public to state (ie bureaucratic) causes and desires. The CDR also reports any dissent in the populace, including that of those loyal to the Marxist tradition of Lenin and Trotsky.
CitizenCindy 2 years ago
CitizenCindy I am impressed with your knowledge of the Cuban situation. How have you become so enlightened? Too many people choose to see a country of "the people" working & fighting together when the reality is the opposite. Many can't understand the reality of a country where the people have no voice and live in constant fear of being reported to the state & paying the price. The people don't have a voice something we take for granted here in the US. That's why so many die trying to get here.
anaelena65 2 years ago
Thank for the compliment =)
As someone who takes Marxist theory very seriously it's important to me that nations/governments that identify themselves with Marxism do not do so erroneously, misleading the world public as to the real meaning of the term. Marx and Engels could not have been any more clear: "The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy." (The Communist Manifesto)
CitizenCindy 2 years ago
The idea that Cuba, where the higher ups in the CCP control the state and therefore the economy and surplus, where the workers have no real control of the means of production and are essentially an exploited class, the idea that this passes for 'socialism' makes me want to pull my hair out. Of course I wholly oppose the ambitions of imperialists towards Cuba, but I also oppose the position of many leftists that because of the positive gains of the revolution (such as health care)
CitizenCindy 2 years ago 2
Marxists should be satisfied with Cuban 'socialism' as is. These people forget that socialism is the emancipation of the working class, not merely the establishment of a welfare state.
CitizenCindy 2 years ago
Your not wrong, but being a 3rd camp doesn't mean that you support US imperialism against Cuba. Cuba isn't socialist, its state-capitalist, but I would rather be poor in Cuba than elsewhere in Latin America. At least I get free health care, education, a right to housing, a society without racism.
Be careful when playing into the hand of imperialism
bhaskie 2 years ago
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CitizenCindy 2 years ago
As I wrote 6 days ago "Of course I wholly oppose the ambitions of imperialists towards Cuba." I have absolutely no desire to see imperialists institute a puppet bourgeois "democracy" within Cuba. The only positive solution I see to the Cuban situation is the socialist transformation of Latin America. The Cuban bureaucracy will fall to pieces if workers governments become the rule rather than the exception in Latin America. Thus, it is vital that we support workers movements in the Latin nations.
CitizenCindy 2 years ago
If you'd rather live poor in Cuba than anywhere else in Latin America & you're against US imperialism, it would serve you well to move to Cuba. But you're wrong in the statement that there's no racism in Cuba. Recommend you read a book written by a black Cuban, Carlos Moore. He protested against discrimination in the early days of the Revolucion & was sent to Labor Camps. Look up Maleconazo in 1994, blacks revolted in Havana, nothing changed though Castro said it would/80% prisoners are black.
anaelena65 2 years ago
bhaskie that is where you are wrong. I lived there & the healthcare for the Cuban people is substandard. We bring our own sheets & supplies to hospital; depend on family in the states for aspirin & vitamins. As far as no racism, it's alive & well. 80% prisoners are black & small % are in high government positions. Castro is the great manipulator, making Cuba look as if it's an equality paradise. Read the book "Pichon" to see first hand what a Cuban black man lives with the great Revolution.
anaelena65 2 years ago
Castro has always maintained that socialism is a process not an end. You are right that somethings aren't happeing in Cuba as they should. But those things have to happened as the working class sees fit to happen. The Cuban government has changed as the people themselves have change. One example is the waving of American flags in public. In the 1960s this would've been unthinkable. But it is allowed today because the new generation of Cubans see the American working class as themselves, workers.
rednemesis88 2 years ago
rednemesis you live in a wonderful world, where Cubans actually have rights and are represented, keep living there while the rest of Cubans live in the real world. As my family says regarding Raul "there's new curtains but the room looks the same" and that's because they have to say things in code out of fear.
anaelena65 2 years ago
I live in a "wonderful" world? I live the life of an exploited and oppressed member of the American working class. I guess you can say that I live just like the majority of Cubans do even though I might have access to more products or sevices than they do; even if such products & services are of less quality that those in the higher classes. So yeah, I guess you can say that me & the people in my socio-economic class have a kind of embago enforced on us too. I never said that Cuba was a paradise
rednemesis88 2 years ago
Red but you did say that Cuba was great the way it is. I simply responded to all of your adoration of that Cuban system you speak of where the people are the ones that have a say and civil rights(not the same one I lived under). I'm confused, if you're Cuban & you agree with that govmnt, why aren't you living there? Why live in the US in misery and this so called "embargo" enforced on people living here in certain socio- economic class? Why live under this evil capitalistic system?
anaelena65 2 years ago
Because the greatest ally that the Cuban people have is the American workers and farmers themselves. They have the power to organize and compell the US government to lift the embargo. Thats why Im still here. To countermand the lies of the Cuban-American right wing. So that we will have true genuine socialism here in the grand US of A. Besides, you do not have the moral nor ethical right to tell me where to go. Cuba doesn't need another mouth to feed. It needs to have the embargo lifted.
rednemesis88 2 years ago 4
red aren't you a man of great morals as IF you're the only one against the embargo. Get off your high & mighty throne open your eyes & know that MANY Cubans here in the US are against the embargo. That has NOTHING 2 do w/ you making it seem as if Castro has been the great saviour of Cubans & that the Cuban people are the ones running Cuba, because that's a lie. What MANY of us want is the embargo 2 end, a Cuba Libre that's nationalistic & the rights of the Cuban people restored!
anaelena65 2 years ago
red you might also be interested in knowing that when it comes to Cuba it isn't all black & white, it's no longer the old war of Batista vs Castro or left vs right, there are MANY of us that see things for what they really are. The only people suffering are the Cubans on the island, they deserve cambio & an end of this oppressive Castro regime. They deserve our support 2 get this & they alone should one day be able to govern themselves don't pretend they are doing so now, that's insulting!
anaelena65 2 years ago
@rednemesis88 Amen! Hasta la Victoria!
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CitizenCindy 2 years ago
I think you are confusing Cuba with the USSR. Seventy percent of the ruling body of the Cuban government come from the working class itself. That could only mean that the interests of the lower classes will be fulfilled. The USSR never had that. Alot of the things you have posted have never happened on the island.
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cgalgeciras 3 years ago
Diabla....aquella es una demonia...admirando su familia....este porqueria y mentira que se llaman ellos mismo la familia Castro...que se castraron los huevos de los Castros XD....soy cubano y Cuba vaya tener mas riqueza sin este comemierda....Viva Cuba por siempre...
418HRAD 3 years ago
Is this the daughter and the niece of the Castro brother that put homosexuals in concentration camps and force labor?
vicen3 3 years ago
Thank you Russia Today, one of the few news stations that can be trusted, not only in the style of reporting but to cover stories that matter.
Viva Fidel
joebhoy182 3 years ago
I agree with a significant portion of what Ms. Castro says here, but the fact is that Cuba has never been "socialistic." The mass of Cuban workers played no significant role in the Cuban revolution, nor does a worker's government or democratic worker's control of the means of production and distribution exist in Cuba. Rather, state control is in the hands of a small beauracracy made up of former guerillas (such as Ms. Castro's father).
CitizenCindy 3 years ago 2
I recognize and support the many positive reforms made by the Cuban revolution, but I am not going to simply ignore the fact that what exists in Cuba is a bureaucratic, state capitalist distortion of socialism, and not at all the real thing. Indeed, the false idea that Cuba is a "communist" country has only fed the gross misunderstanding of workers in the US and elsewhere of the authentic meaning of that term. It has become synonymous with rule by a single dictator. That is a serious problem.
CitizenCindy 3 years ago
Frankly. the fact that so long after 1959 gays in Cuba are still fighting to be treated as equals shows explicitly that Cuba has not achieved "socialism." Bolshevik Russia did away with anti-gay laws in 1918 (the October revolution occurred in 1917). Australian socialist Lisa Macdonald writes: "The 1918 Code on Marriage, the Family and Guardianship ... recognized only civil marriage which by 1927 was a simple registration process based on mutual consent."
CitizenCindy 3 years ago
She goes on: "In 1926, de facto relationships were given legal equality." (I'm quoting Lisa Macdonald from her introduction to "On the Emancipation of Women," a collection of writings and speeches by Lenin on female liberation).Of course, many of these reforms were reversed under Stalin's anti-revolutionary bureaucracy.
CitizenCindy 3 years ago
Mariela is marrried to a Millionaire Italian Businessman. If this Russian reporter wants to interview the Castro family. They sould go to Miami and interview Fidel 2 daughters and his 2 sisters who live in the Coral Gables area or Che Guevara's grandson Canek who fled Cuba to Mexico.
jvarela965 3 years ago
same sex marriage in cuba?
before the united states (well most of it)
Who's free now bitch?
jpo375 3 years ago 9
In freaking deed.
HypoAllergenicJin 3 years ago
Cuba Libre!!!!! Free Cuba!!!!! abajo raul!!!
Que Viva Miami!!!! Que Viva USA!!!! Que Viva EE.UU.!!! Volveremos!!!!abajo con el communismo!!!!!
depotdollars 3 years ago
Capitalism = Free markets
Communism = Free people
don't forget, majority of Russian want soviet union back.
Cubans shouldn't make the same mistake that russians did
NeroroPuj 3 years ago 3
communism is evil.
democracy is freedom.
United States Of America is Freedom.
depotdollars 3 years ago
USA = Freedom...hahaha.
brushee 3 years ago 7
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you are an anti-american idiot!
depotdollars 3 years ago
You dont even know me and your calling me an idiot? Am I not FREE to have an opinion? And why would you say Im anti american. People like you are so judgemental. It is easier to label someone without proof (as you just have), than to take the time to make accusations based on fact. Nice one mate...hahaha!
brushee 3 years ago 2
@brushee ROFl
Burdock007 1 year ago
USA is evil. Communism is only way to democracy and freedom.
as long as there is goverment there is no freedom or democracy.
NeroroPuj 3 years ago
"Communism is only way to democracy and freedom", Karl Marx wouldnt even agree with you on that. I quote Karl Marx, "democracy is the road to socialism". I also quote Lenin "The goal of socialism is communism." You statement is backwards, go back to school.I thought Scandinavians are supposed to be well educated.Government is needed to have freedom.Who's gonna protect your rights when the mob votes them away or kills you? hMM?
Libertarian71776 3 years ago
wrong! Lenin said "The most democratic regime is Communist regime" there even wasn't democracy at marx time you idiot!
"Scandinavians are supposed to be well educated." EXACTLY! that's the case here! your an idiot, backward yank and I'm well educated Scandinavian
NeroroPuj 3 years ago
LOL! your a brainwashed animal, serving the US imperialism and being slave to oil companies by the cost of your life and then you say I'm backward??!
your mentally from 18 century
NeroroPuj 3 years ago
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USA support terrorist Israel state to killing innocent women,children in gaza palatain people. Israel is a terrorist state. Why do not USA tell stop killing in Gaza, palastain. USA invade Iraq, Afganistan(USA get out Russian by creating taliban,jihad,al-kada etc in 80's) next Iran to circle Russia and can attack Russia from every side.KGB says 9/11 was done by Israeli secrete supporter of US Govt. personnel.Free innocent, women are nothings to do with Anti Semitic
MonsterIsrael 3 years ago
what a dumb ugly cunt
xkeltoix 3 years ago
Its just Cuba, but I guess deep in the minds of the Cuban people of future generations they will think likewise.
BlindandGore 3 years ago
This is an excellent video and informative.
Cuba holds regular free elections. It is a role model of third world countries for its outstanding record on human rights.
johan1917 3 years ago 4
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The stupid ignorant comments from pro Castro posters are a shame for humanity. If the regime in Cuba is so good, why not allow free elections? Castro would lose 9 to 1. The only reason why he survives in is because of the cruel and ruthless repression.
cccr7 3 years ago
Pardon me, the "is" in the Russia satellite comment was meant to be a "was," circa the Soviet Union era.
I think all this video shows is Russia's bias for portraying pretty footage of the tourist sections of Havana and Maria Castro's ability to tout the party line, even though her country is falling apart. Why else would droves of Cubans be building make shift rafts to desperately somehow find a better life in the United States (DUN DUN DUN--a capitalist country!)
chinesemilkman 3 years ago
"I assure you Cuba is not a satellite of Russia." Why?
She also implies discrimination against homosexuality is something caused by capitalist society. She then turns around and implies socialism is different. But somehow, at the same time, she admits even for Cuba, a socialist nation of the past 50 years, there is discrimination. I see a logically absurd consequence here.
For other reasons as well, this whole report, most of all Maria Castro, is a load of rhetorically charmed bullshit.
chinesemilkman 3 years ago
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communism bolshevism is evil.death to communism everywhere!
eulex10 3 years ago
death to anti-communist everywhere
VoiceOFnatioN 3 years ago
anti communism is evil
VoiceOFnatioN 3 years ago 6
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guess i'm evil cause communism suck ass.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
maybe? lol
VoiceOFnatioN 3 years ago
guess so
JasonUnruhe 3 years ago
after you've lived in a communist nation like i have you would be evil to cause it is a living hell.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
riiiiiight
JasonUnruhe 3 years ago
live it like i have then you can talk.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
You're right, for get my trips there or 3 years of political science
JasonUnruhe 3 years ago
thats not living it last i checked.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
you don't remeber what we were talking about do you?
JasonUnruhe 3 years ago
what do you think we talked about then?
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
and those 2 previous comments i made were for Shaomaike.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
sorry about that, they were showing up in my comments notices.
JasonUnruhe 3 years ago
I HAVE lived it and irregardless neither I or anybody else needs your permission to have an opinion.
I expatriated from an imperialist country to a socialist one. Every society has good and bad points but I've found the phony capitalist "democracies" are the ones much closer to hell.
The tide is turning against capitalism and imperialism. Between its barbaric wars and the global economic crisis with recession turning into depression (again), capitalism has no future.
Viva socialist Cuba!
Shaomaike 3 years ago
kid cuba is the only true socialit nation left on the planet. I live right now in china and you couldn't get much more capitalist then here. So where are you going to get the man power and backing for your revolution? The USSR is dead and communism has gone the way of the dodo here in china. See my is china communist video for more details.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
Also i never said capitalism works good but compared to communism it is the lesser of two evils having lived in both. I personally believe in a socialized form of democracy as the best form of goverment. But i'll take anything over communism as its just another form of authoritarian facism minus the state nationalist sentiment.
MuslimApostate 3 years ago
we have to distroy those 'naturely discriminating and criminal system capitalisim' all around the world ones and all...
I solute Cuban Revolution
Viva Fidel
VIva Chavez
Viva Evo
VIva Ho Chi Minh
Viva Che
leishausername 3 years ago 8
Long live the Revolution! Happy 50th - love from the UK
bluensunshine 3 years ago 5
Yes, if you read any history, other than that tought to us in schools, it shows that Cuba is a caring country, who looks after its poor and has 1 of the very best healthcare systems in the world. They are WAY WAY WAY better than americans on health, homelsness, and EVERYTHIGN socialist
A VERY good example of hwat we wcoudl be like, if we ended hireditory rule.
YES - hirediory in America.
If not, how come the name BUSH keeps coming up?
Prsoctt Bush and 2 G Bushes - ALL senators and presdnts!
mikeybrumbrum 3 years ago
Castro's Cuba is a mixed bag. If you're looking for consumer goods, it's a nightmare. Same food, same clothes over and over. But if your concerns are more substantial, Cuba is a model of success - universal education, lowest illiteracy rate in the third world, universal medical care, universal electrification and housing for all. There are no homeless people in Cuba. And Bush would have done well to let the women leaders of Cuban provinces respond to Hurricane Katrina rather than Brownie.
frharry 3 years ago
The castros need to be CASTRATED!
nicka2316 3 years ago
what in gods name has the communism done for people of cuba???at least they dont have to pay a fortune for their dentist,neither they live in trolleys like americans..they dont have to be prostitutes like cubans in miami..neither they are drag dealers like them
cubitubef 3 years ago
Long live Cuban Revolution!! Cuba is an international example of dignity, patriotism and desire of selfdetermination. Cuba is the only latinamerican country that hasn´t turn its head down to USA, it has suffered a criminal and absurd economical blockade and manage itself to survive and provide cubans a great educational, medical and social system. Cubans are very proud and patriotic people, their Revolution is a proof of dignity and moral strengh, that´s why the world admire and respect it.
mams14 3 years ago 4
Do you think that Americans lack dignity and patriotism? Sometimes I think we do, even though our country is the richest...
adeart7 3 years ago
There's no such thing as a Communist state.
In fact Communist and State are oxymoron's.
Cuban's still work for the capital.
kkklownknight6699 3 years ago
I hope she becomes President after Raul :)
StancelSpencer 3 years ago
thats true about gender ID thing medicially proven , well TV news truth ,don,t count on the jew s,a changing ,then again the kkk would back a black over a jew ,lol ,
that's totality uncalled for ,I'm shocked and disturbed by my last statement, you'd think I would retracted it , at this point, as i have the ability , but no, :)
OrphanPaper 3 years ago
The castro family is so united, that one brother of Fidel and Raul, dosent talk to them, one daughter of Fidel and her mother left Cuba to escape from Fidel.
One sister of Fidel also escape from Cuba...
Even Fidel was only accepted (recognized) by is father after 17 years.
but yes they are a united family??? right, keep saying lies!!!
This lady lies with her mouth full.
Remember lady, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
mestre1966 3 years ago
thanks RT for the interview, it was nice to see her, but little dissapointed by homosexual stuffs.
ComradeGrg 3 years ago
I think this queen will be disappointed by her pro-US thinking.
Killazer 3 years ago
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She wants the current system to stay in place because it's a dictatorship, keeping her family in power and making her a god.
If they had the right to vote in a new leader, she'd have to get a real job, live in a normal house, and would be as poor as the other cubans.
ImperialEmpire 3 years ago
Personally I think she sees what capitalism does to people.Coruption,greed and destruction.
boumar19721972 3 years ago 5
She is wonderful and well spoken
likewow99 3 years ago 4
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And what, WHAT IN GODS NAME has "communism" done for the people of Cuba...
johne30587 3 years ago
Do I even need to start? One of the best healthcare systems in the world, mass education, rationing of food in crises rather than sale to the highest bidder, land reform (lately Raul introduced usufruct) various other things.
Don't compare Cuba to the USA; compare Cuba to other 3rd world countries with a mass blockade and pretty much no resources.
Lots of things still to be done, but Cuba is an inspiration for what its already achieved
left888 3 years ago
(1) You are a clear product of Cuba's successful propaganda campaign. Cuba does in deed have excellent health care and education systems by 3rd world standards, but Cuba has never been as backwards as the Cuban government or the extreme left has wanted to make everyone believe. Even before the Revolution Cuba had the 2nd highest literacy rate in Latin America (behind Uruguay) and one of the largest urban middle classes in % terms of the region.
samot8728 3 years ago
(2) Land reform was one of Cuba's biggest failures. Most lands expropriated in the 1960s are currently empty and unproductive and more often than not in the hands of the government. And remember that Cuba is 75% urban.
Food rationing in Cuba has been able to give each person just enough to live above malnutrition, but the reason why Cuba has food rationing in the first place is due to the communist system's inability to produce enough food to allow it's buying and selling in the market.
samot8728 3 years ago
(3) Furthermore, that rationing system you so praised is not the main source of food for most Cubans who generally depend on remittences from abroad to buy basic goods at "dollar stores" where rationing does not exist or rely on the black market to obtain what they cannot from the government.
Cuba does not have a blockade, Cuba has an embargo imposed by the USA. If Cuba had a blockade it would prevent it from trading with the rest of the world.
samot8728 3 years ago
(4) That being said, the embargo is the worst foreign policy that the USA could have used in Cuba. It pushed Cuba closer to the Soviets and has given the dictatorship the perfect excuse to justify the economic failure of their system. Everyone likes to blame the embargo but ignore the billions of $ in aid that Cuba got from the USSR for 3 decades. Cuba's economic model has not worked anywhere, with or without embargo. Cubans have no incentive to work and reply on stealing for their needs.
samot8728 3 years ago
(5) On top of that, add the limitations on individual and political freedoms the Cuban people have endured for 5 decades. 50 years of totalitarian rule are too high of a price to pay for free health care and education.
Castro has achieved the demoralization of the Cuba people, who have been forced to turn to illegal activities for their survival. Castro has been unable to gather support from the youth, most of which are politically apathetic and see no future inside Cuba.
samot8728 3 years ago
(6) The revolutionary/nationalist fervor of the 1960s is gone and only felt by a minority of people, most of which are in their 60s or older. People in Cuba are more concerned with their day to day well-being and how they will make ends meet tomorrow than attached to any form of political ideology.
samot8728 3 years ago
Thank you. One of the few times I'll agree with someone who I am assuming is a conservative.
johne30587 3 years ago
Thank you for your comment, but I am not conservative. I am a strong supporter of universal heath care and free education and a strong critic of the US embargo and travel ban to Cuba as it has achieved absolutely nothing. That being said, I am not a brainwashed leftist that idealizes the Cuban government for being something that is not.
samot8728 3 years ago
I'm a liberal democrat socialist, dont you DARE attempt to patronize me. My family fled Cuba as a result of what happened. My uncle was tortured as a "political prisoner" for 10 years. You are full of yourself, and full of shit.
Don't talk to me like I'm some kind of neocon who doesnt know his ass from his face. I'm a liberal, and from what I can see from what you wrote you think you are too.
Only difference is you dont know how to draw the line between democracy and dictatorship.
johne30587 3 years ago
Torture does not happen in Cuba
rednemesis88 2 years ago
Tell that to my family members which were thrown in jail for 10 years and then tortured with electric shocks to the genitals.
Brainwashed fuck.
johne30587 2 years ago
All you stupid fools giving me negatives for this comment. Judge me when you and your family have to flee a dictatorship.
Bunch of tools.
johne30587 3 years ago
johne30587, i would have to agree with you. those stupid fools dont know shit about communism and the destruction that Castro does to those cuban people. I said this because my mother and her family had to move here when she was 6 years old because of what happened. my grandfather was so proud of his heritage as cuban but he also wanted to be free with rights so he moved his family. they do remember when everything started it was a horrible experience for them to see.
DaTweetyShortii 3 years ago
The point is NOT TO BE LIKE USA.
HK379 3 years ago 5
This is bullshit ! Cuba needs to remain on the traditional socialist path ...
and not to exept ... the American religion gey stuff ...
these things are idiotic , ego-cetric , and over all bullshits ...
they create social decay .
HK379 3 years ago
When I was living during the USSR , no body talked about bullshits like religion ,sex or the homo-suff or whatever ...
but now every one whants to show stuff like that so much !?... I don`t whant to know that stuff ... I don`t whant to know peoples personal stuff ...
like when they go to bathroom ... for example ..
is not my buissness ..
HK379 3 years ago
lovely interview
mrmgoo146 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
She lives as a queen in Havana while Cuban population is hungry and desperate for leaving the country.
cubadc 3 years ago
The hunger is caused by the US economic embargos.
ytbentrlldkt 3 years ago 6
for that are not Cubans or Kastros family guilty it is USA with hear anti Comunist life...
alexandarSerbia 3 years ago 2
You are rite .
HK379 3 years ago
Thank you for a very interesting Interview!
Svetlana0777 3 years ago 2
CCCP
12valvepower1 3 years ago 4