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and last but not least talking about being fucked by your government, check the transparency international corruption index and find that people in for example poland and croatia are more likely to become a victim of their own government in that respect
bolus
(Dec 26 06, 04:21)Good point, bolus. I have spent most of my life in Poland, bureaucracy and corruption remains an issue over there. But it's a country on its way to what westerners call normalcy, and even f it has a fucked up government now, the rulers were freely elected by the people.
Today's Poland is heaven compared to communist hell it was 16 years ago, and yet our communism was never as repressive as Cuban still is. Saying Poland is more repressive now than Cuba sounds more than unfair to me.
My Cuban Spanish teacher in Poland, who had escaped Cuba was regularly being approached by Cuban spies who kept inviting him to Cuban embassy. Obviously, by going there he'd automatically put himself at risk of being transported to Cuba and being tortured.
Since communism was gone, I had freedom to leave Poland, which I actually made use of. I didn't escape, I left. Cubans don't have that choice.IMO situation in Haiti, USA, Iraq, Poland, Croatia or wherever cannot be used to justify what's going on in Cuba.
Then, our dream of a place without mcdonalds cannot justify keeping those people living in a beautiful romantic shithole.
BTW, Cubans you talk to in Cuba would risk their lives by telling you what they really think - they live in a totalitarian country, you're just passing by. My friends who had been there said they were followed by secret police - everyone had one assigned.Too often America's leaders going in scary directions make people think by contrast that what Fidel does is right. Those are two wrongs, and Fidel's idea of a society is the one that scares me way more.