The Cuban Revolution had a tremendous effect on workers & young people, in my youth. Later I learned of the international work of Cubans in Africa and South America. All that from one revolution opened my eyes & mind. Thanks for the contributions concerning the importance of a 'worker's revolution' with democracy and accountability being essential.
Why did you delete my comment about IP abolition on your channel? I guess you don’t like people talking about intellectual property abolition. Not cool at all…
The revolution is going where it started going 62+ years ago when it started. Down the toilet, straight to hell. Cuba in the 1950's was in fact the Riviera of the Caribbean, a first world country, with a currency that was worth slightly more than the US dollar on international markets. The communist dictatorship is what has been disastrous for the Cuban economy. Cuba before the revolution use to produce a surplus of food to export food, vegetables, fruits, sugar, etc... more than enough to supply domestic needs and significant exports. Since the revolution even sugar is rationed and little of anything is produced to use domestically much less to export. I lived in Cuba, under this communist dictatorship it is little more than an oppressive hell hole. The secret goal of much of our youth is to leave the country. The dictatorship has turned the entire population into their personal slaves, amongst the poorest in the hemisphere. Formerly rich and poor are equally poorer than ever before the revolution. Except for those in power in the dictatorship and military who live like kings and queens at the expense of everyone else they oppress.
@@Rubenstein409 BS my family is from Cuba, it was my parents and grandparent’s era. Americans were little more than tourists and Cuba had a thriving tourist sector in the 50’s with international tourism from all over the world, not just Americans. It was the Riviera of the Americas. Prostitution was illegal and enforced. Unlike today where impoverished Cubans sell themselves to old men and old women from Canada, Europe and elsewhere for chump change because they are desperate and have no options. Hoping one of these old men and women will fall in love with them, marry them and take them with them. No Cubans in the 50’s had any interest in leaving the country and marrying someone who paid for sex. Cuba was the place to be, the place to live, the place to thrive and build wealth.
@@jean-claudelol563By some strange chance, Fidel captured the capital with almost no fight or resistance. The Cubans went on strike at his call. I don't know who your parents were. I am Polish not Cuban. But Cuba was famous for its brothels which is even written in your Bible (Black Book of Communism). Currently, Cuba, according to interbarodic statistics, has the largest number of doctors per 10,000 inhabitants. Poverty in Cuba is not greater than in other countries, it is much lower. And basing the economy on sex tourism and sugar is not profitable. Your parents must have been privileged since they didn't like the revolution. Most of the poor wanted land and bread (as Lenin used to say). Anyway, the Cuban revolution was not socialist at first, but nationally liberating at first. As I said, I'm not from Cuba but from Poland and I don't know, but I read various statistics and opinions of people on the internet. Without the support of the poor, Fidel would never have come to power.
@@Rubenstein409 I am Cuban. Cuba never had brothels, that is a lie! Communist propaganda! It was illegal and enforced, it was a Catholic dominated country, people went to church weekly and practiced what they preached. Our people had morals and respected themselves, not like today where anything goes as long as you can get a piece of bread for the day to keep from starving. Cuba had a dictator. Although it was a pro-capitalism government , it was still a dictatorship. Cubans wanted Democracy not dictatorship. Castro gave them an even worse, infinitely more oppressive dictatorship that stole all our rights. Our homes belong to the government, our businesses belong to the government. The government does not serve our people, it uses our people as little more than slaves. It uses those that have been fortunate enough to escape this slavery to send back money and goods to their desperate relatives left behind. To subsidize the economy this disgusting Marxist dictatorship has broken and destroyed. The dictator and their cronies live like royalty in palace like homes while the rest of us try to survive on rations for a month that not enough to last even a week. Our power is cut off almost daily, at times for more than 12-15+ hours at a time. Our water is frequently interrupted for days at a time. Our hospitals and clinics are physically collapsing structures, 70+ years old. No food or blankets for patients, bring your own food or blanket. They don’t have the medicines they claim they invented, you get a prescription and the pharmacies can’t fill them. You have to pray that a relative can procure it that lives in Europe, North America, South America or elsewhere and can ship it to us before we die from a simple staph infection. We survive at the mercy and grace of our family’s living in capitalist countries to provide all the things a Marxist dictatorship promised and has consistently failed to deliver to us for well over 6 decades. The Marxist dictatorship has delivered nothing but poverty, misery, pestilence and death to our people. Everything is blamed on the capitalist abroad. If we depend on the mercy and charity of capitalist to produce food in an agrarian country rich in fertile lands, to catch fish on an Island completely surrounded by ocean, then what good is this Marxist dictatorship if it can not fix the problems they created without charity and material goods from capitalist countries. This system is a lie, built on a deck of cards that has been collapsing for over 6 decades. They took our guns and all the means to fight and topple this oppressive regime. They have Russian and Chinese planes, tanks and armored vehicles with Russian military assault weapons aimed at our heads, our homes, our families and we have little more than sticks and stones with which to defend ourselves. We once produced and exported millions of dollars in food and other goods, today we don’t even produce enough to provide for 20% of domestic demand. If anything is exported it is to procure foreign capital for the benefit of the dictatorship at the expense of the food we will not have to feed our own people. There may have been people doing prostitution in the 50’s most were foreigners, some may have been Cubans, but there were never brothels, they were always illegal and it was strictly enforced. I had spoken about this many, many, many times with my parents now well into their late 80’s and my grandparents now deceased. They attested that these are lies and exaggerations by the Marxist regime to brainwash the younger generation about the evils of capitalism. To make our youth believe we are better of in dilapidated homes and buildings collapsing over our heads and under our feet, with shortages of food, water, electricity, medicine, crumbling 70+ year old roads and infrastructures. Our free education is little more than indoctrination camps. You can not question their version of history with the facts passed down by the older generations that still live. You will be expelled, prevented from securing any kind of job, persecuted and arrested and convicted for speaking up about the lies by the state. The Cuban revolution was not bloodless as the lies would have you believe. Not only did they kill a couple thousand in the process of taking the government, they also killed an unknown number, possibly thousands of unarmed farmers along the way who would not join their revolution as they made their way across the countryside and mountains towards the capital. Killed solely to prevent any potential sympathizers of the Batista government from giving advanced warning of the invasion underway. Tens of thousands more were executed in the weeks, months, and years that followed for being suspected of being loyal to the Batista government without evidence or trials and no legal representation or rights before the Castor sentencing panels. Whatever the number given as an official number, the real death toll was many times higher with no official records of their executions.
The Cuban Revolution had a tremendous effect on workers & young people, in my youth. Later I learned of the international work of Cubans in Africa and South America. All that from one revolution opened my eyes & mind. Thanks for the contributions concerning the importance of a 'worker's revolution' with democracy and accountability being essential.
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Why did you delete my comment about IP abolition on your channel? I guess you don’t like people talking about intellectual property abolition. Not cool at all…
Your comment is still showing if you sort by new, but not if you sort by top. I think this is a glitch with youtube but idk
@@filmNFX1 I don’t see it. Are you mistaken?
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Nah it's still there if you sort by newest first. TH-cam's algorithms are just fucky i guess
@@filmNFX1 It’s not there, I checked. Why would you lie about that?
It's still there just scroll down lol. You're not being personally attacked you're just bad at technology
The revolution is going where it started going 62+ years ago when it started. Down the toilet, straight to hell. Cuba in the 1950's was in fact the Riviera of the Caribbean, a first world country, with a currency that was worth slightly more than the US dollar on international markets. The communist dictatorship is what has been disastrous for the Cuban economy. Cuba before the revolution use to produce a surplus of food to export food, vegetables, fruits, sugar, etc... more than enough to supply domestic needs and significant exports. Since the revolution even sugar is rationed and little of anything is produced to use domestically much less to export. I lived in Cuba, under this communist dictatorship it is little more than an oppressive hell hole. The secret goal of much of our youth is to leave the country. The dictatorship has turned the entire population into their personal slaves, amongst the poorest in the hemisphere. Formerly rich and poor are equally poorer than ever before the revolution. Except for those in power in the dictatorship and military who live like kings and queens at the expense of everyone else they oppress.
In tje 1950's Cuba was burdel of America. There were milions of hunger and poor people.
@@Rubenstein409 BS my family is from Cuba, it was my parents and grandparent’s era. Americans were little more than tourists and Cuba had a thriving tourist sector in the 50’s with international tourism from all over the world, not just Americans. It was the Riviera of the Americas. Prostitution was illegal and enforced. Unlike today where impoverished Cubans sell themselves to old men and old women from Canada, Europe and elsewhere for chump change because they are desperate and have no options. Hoping one of these old men and women will fall in love with them, marry them and take them with them. No Cubans in the 50’s had any interest in leaving the country and marrying someone who paid for sex. Cuba was the place to be, the place to live, the place to thrive and build wealth.
@@jean-claudelol563By some strange chance, Fidel captured the capital with almost no fight or resistance. The Cubans went on strike at his call. I don't know who your parents were. I am Polish not Cuban. But Cuba was famous for its brothels which is even written in your Bible (Black Book of Communism). Currently, Cuba, according to interbarodic statistics, has the largest number of doctors per 10,000 inhabitants. Poverty in Cuba is not greater than in other countries, it is much lower. And basing the economy on sex tourism and sugar is not profitable. Your parents must have been privileged since they didn't like the revolution. Most of the poor wanted land and bread (as Lenin used to say). Anyway, the Cuban revolution was not socialist at first, but nationally liberating at first. As I said, I'm not from Cuba but from Poland and I don't know, but I read various statistics and opinions of people on the internet. Without the support of the poor, Fidel would never have come to power.
@@Rubenstein409 I am Cuban. Cuba never had brothels, that is a lie! Communist propaganda! It was illegal and enforced, it was a Catholic dominated country, people went to church weekly and practiced what they preached. Our people had morals and respected themselves, not like today where anything goes as long as you can get a piece of bread for the day to keep from starving. Cuba had a dictator. Although it was a pro-capitalism government , it was still a dictatorship. Cubans wanted Democracy not dictatorship. Castro gave them an even worse, infinitely more oppressive dictatorship that stole all our rights. Our homes belong to the government, our businesses belong to the government. The government does not serve our people, it uses our people as little more than slaves. It uses those that have been fortunate enough to escape this slavery to send back money and goods to their desperate relatives left behind. To subsidize the economy this disgusting Marxist dictatorship has broken and destroyed. The dictator and their cronies live like royalty in palace like homes while the rest of us try to survive on rations for a month that not enough to last even a week. Our power is cut off almost daily, at times for more than 12-15+ hours at a time. Our water is frequently interrupted for days at a time. Our hospitals and clinics are physically collapsing structures, 70+ years old. No food or blankets for patients, bring your own food or blanket. They don’t have the medicines they claim they invented, you get a prescription and the pharmacies can’t fill them. You have to pray that a relative can procure it that lives in Europe, North America, South America or elsewhere and can ship it to us before we die from a simple staph infection. We survive at the mercy and grace of our family’s living in capitalist countries to provide all the things a Marxist dictatorship promised and has consistently failed to deliver to us for well over 6 decades. The Marxist dictatorship has delivered nothing but poverty, misery, pestilence and death to our people. Everything is blamed on the capitalist abroad. If we depend on the mercy and charity of capitalist to produce food in an agrarian country rich in fertile lands, to catch fish on an Island completely surrounded by ocean, then what good is this Marxist dictatorship if it can not fix the problems they created without charity and material goods from capitalist countries. This system is a lie, built on a deck of cards that has been collapsing for over 6 decades. They took our guns and all the means to fight and topple this oppressive regime. They have Russian and Chinese planes, tanks and armored vehicles with Russian military assault weapons aimed at our heads, our homes, our families and we have little more than sticks and stones with which to defend ourselves. We once produced and exported millions of dollars in food and other goods, today we don’t even produce enough to provide for 20% of domestic demand. If anything is exported it is to procure foreign capital for the benefit of the dictatorship at the expense of the food we will not have to feed our own people.
There may have been people doing prostitution in the 50’s most were foreigners, some may have been Cubans, but there were never brothels, they were always illegal and it was strictly enforced. I had spoken about this many, many, many times with my parents now well into their late 80’s and my grandparents now deceased. They attested that these are lies and exaggerations by the Marxist regime to brainwash the younger generation about the evils of capitalism. To make our youth believe we are better of in dilapidated homes and buildings collapsing over our heads and under our feet, with shortages of food, water, electricity, medicine, crumbling 70+ year old roads and infrastructures. Our free education is little more than indoctrination camps. You can not question their version of history with the facts passed down by the older generations that still live. You will be expelled, prevented from securing any kind of job, persecuted and arrested and convicted for speaking up about the lies by the state.
The Cuban revolution was not bloodless as the lies would have you believe. Not only did they kill a couple thousand in the process of taking the government, they also killed an unknown number, possibly thousands of unarmed farmers along the way who would not join their revolution as they made their way across the countryside and mountains towards the capital. Killed solely to prevent any potential sympathizers of the Batista government from giving advanced warning of the invasion underway. Tens of thousands more were executed in the weeks, months, and years that followed for being suspected of being loyal to the Batista government without evidence or trials and no legal representation or rights before the Castor sentencing panels. Whatever the number given as an official number, the real death toll was many times higher with no official records of their executions.