posted February 25, 2020 03:03 PM            

Four former Cuban political prisoners, who spent a combined 81 years in prison for their opposition to communism, have sent a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez condemning presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for praising the late dictator Fidel Castro.

In remarks to 60 Minutes Sunday and in subsequent remarks on Monday, Sanders insisted that it was "unfair" to categorically condemn the Castro family's over half-century-long stranglehold over Cuba, claiming that Fidel Castro imposed a successful "literacy program" on the country.

The former political prisoners note in their letter that Cuba had high literacy rates and was the region's wealthiest country before the 1959 Cuban Revolution. They also note that the price Cubans paid for the economic collapse under Castro, which Sanders appeared to praise as a success, was the mass murder of thousands of dissidents, imprisonment in tropical gulags, and a total lack of freedom of expression.
The former political prisoners also note that Cuba's healthcare system relies on a form of modern slavery in which Cuba pays for diplomatic support from the developing world by sending doctors to work as slaves in dangerous conditions.

"As former political prisoners who served many year in Fidel Castro's prisons, enduring tortures, beatings, years of solitary confinement, and inhuman treatment, we are offended that a presidential candidate of your party dared to praise a tyrant who shed so much blood of innocent Cubans", the writers of the letter assert.

"Mr. Sanders either lies or ignores the events in Cuba. Socialism is the worst political system any country may go through", the writers continue:...............

posted February 25, 2020 07:02 PM            

Plus it was better than the capitalist media portrays. I mean those community gardens were great.

Plus it didnt work because Imperialist Amerikkka interfered

posted February 26, 2020 10:38 AM            

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Originally posted by shura:
That wasnt real socialism tho. Real socialism has never been tried.

Plus it was better than the capitalist media portrays. I mean those community gardens were great.

Plus it didnt work because Imperialist Amerikkka interfered

Plus we already have socialism here in the US like Social Security and mass transit and those work great! duh

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Thanks for splaining it to me. I never thought about Socialism like this before.

Surely, America could do Socialism the right way!