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Post by Swampy on Jan 9, 2023 3:15:29 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on Jan 9, 2023 16:19:21 GMT -5
My older brother and his wife were/are 100% communists. Have been for about 60 years. IMO as a result of the lack of economic progress, and the need to blame someone other than themselves, so "the capitalist system" was to blame. Theywent o Cuba and in fact actually met Castro and then later went to Nicaragua to "help with the harvest" Helping also meant sleeping on the dirt floor of the humpy on the farm. They were very quiet on their return and the workers paradise was not all that they had been told.
Then a few years ago we had a Cuban in Australia who was a friend of our son. His parents managed to get to the USA in KY and at about my age were working as cleaners in a mall. They gave up and returned to Cuba, and there the will stay. Son and friend went to Cuba a few years ago and on that trip went to Castro's grave. They had a BIG rock to make sure he never got out of it!
Friend's mother had been a AK47 toting revolutionary in Castro's bunch and she refused to even get out of the car.
My brother's favourite chant, "Come the revolution" was the tactic to leave me speechless in one of our many 'debates'.
SJ
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