RetroBites: Fidel Castro (1959)

Fidel Castro shares his ideology. (1959)

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[farleftloon]

@espressotub Wait just a minute! How about the more than a hundred thousand which have escaped the island and went to Miami? There have been two Cuban U.S. Senators and there's talk of one of them being the next vice-president. The thing is that unlike Castro they can't stay in power for 60 years while living in a nice capitalist mansion while the Cuban people risk sharks to get to the USA!

[hellom12345]

@DJEnvyOfficial oh yes it was so great under batista when the aristocracy and american companies controlled cuba, when all income was in the form of weapons to keep the people down and the batista dictatorship going and when the peasants were nothing more than slaves who couldn't read or write and who were left to die when suffering from curable illnesses because all the doctors were reserved for the rich in havanna and all the teachers kept for the rich children your right it was better then.

[mexivato210]

@PureSoapCleans really because i just went there last june and the nation is healing and booming, its pretty much a normal country....its American propaganda that you believe in that keeps everyone else hating Cuba when its the U.S. own embargo that crippled Cuba but they wanna blame it on someone else

[UberVersatile]

The sad part is Cuba allowed anyone who wanted to get out of the country during the 50's-60's. The US closed the borders and disallowed people from "fleeing" cuba. Because the people who fled were a liability to the US...The US considered most of those who fled criminals and crooks.

[MetallicaRules805]

It is a shame that there are so many ignorant people on this website who type up hate comments on any video they want just because they have the "right" to do so. Well just was we have the"right" to type up ignorant comments on Youtube we also have the "right" to pick up a book and read so we learn the truth and not just base out understanding on some stupid website that has now reliable source backing it.

[PureSoapCleans]

The castro family has been in power in Cuba for 53 long years, slaving the Cuban people and ruining the nation. The castro received billions of dollars from the formal USSR and they are receiving millions from chavez now, and even so the country is falling apart. More than 2 million Cubans left the island and everything they had behind, still the nation can't survive without the help from the Cuban relatives abroad, they love those dollars. The end for that tyranny is near.

[Ausiz]

@Brenda2OOO There's no homeless people in Cuba only because you can be jailed for being one.So this is not an advantage.The main disadvantage of Cuba is lack of personal freedom,Cuba's regime (despite some advantages) tries to have complete control over all population that's why it's not better than USA.USA and other capitalist countries have their flaws but one thing's for sure - they allow much more personal freedom than Cuba does.Personal freedom is one of essential ingredients for happiness.

[thatkindofguy234]

@espressotub the real cuba is a fucking bullshit anti-communist website... dosen't take a genius to work it out. It's so over the top it makes it obvious its fake... I mean smeared shit on the floor? I didn't know in a hospital you just take a dump on the floor.

[yuppers4321]

@Estiloyrumbo TheRealCubaDotCom Just check it. I know that a lot of people think everything is great in Cuba because of that stupid Michael Moore documentary, but not everyone is terribly happy. The thing is, is that Cubans were living under a horrible government system before communism, and sure, and the idea of everyone being equal under common communist ideology seemed very appealing. However, things hardly ever work out that way. Read Animal Farm by George Orwell, it's pretty enlightening.

[Estiloyrumbo]

@farleftloon Fidel doesn't live in a mansion, if he lives in a big house it is a shithole compared to any of the houses of the rich you find in Florida or L.A. Now, why cubans flee the island? The USA gives a very special treat to cubans, housing, healthcare, and of course LEGALITY, all kinds of support. Weird that doesn't happen with other immigrants don't you think? Most cubans in the US are very well off. Capitalism is attractive I know, but if the world is to survive it has to stop.

[Freethinker12341]

@mexivato210 thats fair, i have respect for socialist ideas, but I've never respected Castro. I'm not sure where you stand in particular with regards to left views, but personally I'm straight up anti-Stalinist. I put Castro into that category. People who hijack the term "socialism" or "communism" and abuse their power over their people, and create a really awful, tryannical statist regime. And only spread propaganda and fill their people heads with nonesense and fluff.