Fidel is dead. Finally. This is really not news, as in reality he's been dead for some time now. What's news is how many people who should know better write about him as if this murderer, this tyrant was some kind of a hero. Why?
Do they see boats full of people from other Caribbean islands rushing to freedom, toward a better and more fulfilling life? Do they see planeloads of Venezuelans, Bolivians, and others rushing to Havana to learn how to do revolution, how to straighten up their faltering revolutions, how to, finally, do it right?
Are Cubans, after fifty-plus years of his rule and thousands of dead and full prisons, so clearly better off than people in the rest of the Caribbean? Are Cubans from Miami, tired of living in the corrupt, egoistic, greedy, and racist America, rushing back home? Do the Russians look at the billions spent to keep Castro in power as an example of how to invest successfully? Are the Venezuelans celebrating the returns on their Cuban investments?
So what did he and his revolution really accomplish? How different is Cuba of Castro from Cuba of Fulgencio Batista?
Batista's gang was replaced by the Castros and their gang. Batista secret service was replaced by Fidel's thugs. Rich landowners were replaced by party apparatchiks. American tourists were replaced by Russians and East Germans – for a while. Now even they don't come.
Can anyone point out any accomplishment worthy of all the blood spilled, thousands jailed and exiled, all the stolen property? .......
And Cuba isn't alone. What is the difference between the Russia of today and the Russia of the tsars? Today's tsar is not a Romanov, but Putin.
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