Thread 17914168

>Promises a democracy with free elections during the revolution.
>Instead imposes a dictatorship that stays in power for more than half a century.
Why do people still defend him?

>>17914168 (OP)
muh literacy rates

>>17914168 (OP)
It's not his fault people kept electing him.

>>17914168 (OP)
when his enemies are the most insufferable and annoying people on the planet (americlaps) it's hard to dislike him

>>17914168 (OP)
But my communist revolution and getting a bunch of free shit and not having to work

>>17914168 (OP)
I've always wondered why the Americans put Castro in power? Did they expect a communist to call free elections and allow freedom of expression and association? Are Americans that retarded?

>>17914168 (OP)
his detractors seethe funny

>>17914419
cuba failed when they couldn't kick the americans out of guantanamo
the soviets abandoned them after the missle crisis and ever since they've been effectively blockaded and ran circles around

>>17914396
Fidel was never really a tr00 kvlt commie unlike his brother Raùl.

>>17914168 (OP)
the Orwellian nature of people in power

Politics is Treachery
Religion is Brainwashing

>>17914497
>and ever since they've been effectively blockaded
Objectively false, commie scum.

Meh, at least they have an interesting history and global influence
Without him they would have been just another unremarkable south american shithole

>>17914168 (OP)
>why
because they are loooosers than want to steal from productive people

He was a charismatic and grounded leader who was largely supported.

>>17914195
Cuban Americans are indeed most insufferable.

>>17915530
So supported that millions of Cubans have left the Island ever since he took over?

>>17914419
A better comparison is to the current Donbass situation. Donbass is really similar to bay of pigs except a million times a more embarrassing defeat

>>17914497
>cuba failed when they couldn't kick the americans out of guantanamo

It’s not that Cuba couldn’t kick them out. What happened is that Castro accidentally cashed a cheque for the base which had been left with the previous regime and under international law the base now belongs to America for the allotted amount of time.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17200921/

Legally the base can only be shut down with both country’s permission and that one rent payment in 1959 is considered defacto Cuban acknowledgement of the deal.

>>17915847
Those that left were mostly Cuba's economic elite, who felt threatened by his Socialist system.

democracy is a jewish psyop

look at all the pro-russian candidates that won in europe that got repealed lmao

democracy is just let lobbyists control your government or glowniggers put their puppets

>>17916106
It wasn’t just the elite who left the country when he was in power. Many Cubans who weren’t rich also left, but they left in rafts.

>>17914195
this
die working for Dole banana company for pennies, or at least have your family's home to sleep in and some rations to live on
tough choice but that comes with the territory

>>17914168 (OP)
Cuba holds elections every five years. Just because they don't have a US-installed puppet doesn't mean they're not democratic.