I would say just dumbing it down to "good" or "bad" does the history and significance a disservice,

It becomes complicated to call anybody good definitively who's had to do some of the things Castro did,

But I think any statement on him overall would take a base level of knowledge about him that most people, including myself even, at this point, don't have

okay perhaps he wasn’t a great man but he’s definitely overhated by Americans and racist ass Cubans who are mad that their grandpappy got his ass beat for racism

Even OP couldn’t stand behind such a claim lmao

Lol

Yes he repressed fascists and counter revolutionaries

Yes, this is a good thing

He’s done less bad things than most US presidents

Plus CIA info on him is capping most of the time

Definitely a monumental figure in world history for good and ill

Can best be appreciated with minimal bias by non-ideologues looking at the objective achievements of his government

linking wsj in 2021
schleep

Hes wearing Gosha

that part

The reporters bias is irrelevant when the claims made in the article are verifiably true, and I know you know that. You just think what Castro did was justified.

And no I'm not a mod, I'm literally the op of the Uigur thread.

the west vilifies everyone except liberal feminists

sad!

hard fits i cant front

Castro is mix bag for me very indifferent about him, more sympathy for Che tho

I am happy that Cuban government largely avoided the cult of personality of Castro

People need to get outta their box and assess things from different prespectives.

Right, lmao

That's a much more nuanced and reasonable take

Weirdest accusation yet lol

I’m not going to say he was perfect but he did things that no one would’ve probably believed Cuba was capable of and showed that there is potential for a better world than what we have today under capitalism.

“Vietcong aggression”

He turned Cuba from a backwater Caribbean nation who’s population was raped on the daily by America and its white upper class for its resources to a self sufficient and proud nation that eliminated illiteracy, eliminated child malnourishment and mortality, and now has the highest number of doctors per capita in the world (which it regularly exports throughout the world to assist other countries in their fight against COVID)