In my opinion Castro was one of the most respectable leaders of the modern era. He is a symbol of the fight against oppression and exploitation if people all across the global south. In my eyes he deserves more respect than these puppets who are praised today.

damn

got any videos, books or documentaries you could reccomend?

why do Cubans hate him to the point that they worship Trump

yeah would also like to know this

What about the millions of Cubans oppressed during his reign? His own people?

i don't know enough yet.

I'm sure there's really good and really bad elements tbh

cuban americans are mainly descended from wealthy landowners and members of the old regime that castro overthrew. their basically pissed because their power was given to the people

A dictator who seized billions from his people for personal use and created international tension through the cuban missile crisis which almost concluded with the end of the world if it wasn’t for one brave russian veto’ing the command to nuke America.

we would've been living in Fallout 4

I prefer leaders who don't put gay people in concentration camps tbh

that situation wasnt directly his fault due to the way the cuban presidency is set up he was not legally allowed to intervene and stop what was going on. i do agree that he is somewhat responsible.

It’s crazy when you really think about how s*** that happened 70 years ago in a foreign country is affecting the U.S election in 2020

objectively speaking i don't think castro was nearly as bad as he's often depicted in american-centric politics, he certainly has his points of merit, but i do also think he's greatly over-fetishized by modern leftists

Honorable for what he attempted

assuming you mean cuban-americans, they literally fled the country to escape oppression under his regime. trump railing against socialism is just boogeyman s*** because obviously the dnc aren't socialist, but he probably gets a sympathetic ear from a group who has learned to hate the idea of socialism ig

what did he do to oppress them I mean, been a while since I read about Castro

"somewhat responsible"

Gays comprised a significant portion of the 125,000 Cubans (“worms,” in Fidel Castro’s words) permitted to leave the island for the United States as part of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift. (The 1984 documentary Improper Conduct, which tells the stories of gay and straight Marielitos, remains one of the starkest indictments of the Castro regime.) When the Human Immunodeficiency Virus hit the island’s gay community in the mid-1980s, the regime’s response was to quarantine all HIV-positive people in sanitariums, referred to as “pretty prisons” by the founder of the World Health Organization’s Global Program for AIDS.

mostly just ran an authoritarian state where dissidents were persecuted/jailed/etc

some people might have not been directly affected but just saw where it was going and fled.

The double Rolex flex

and then there was the freedom flights, which lasted almost 10 years and was the largest wave of migration, mostly comprising of the lower-middle class (and two more major stages of fleeing on top of that)

castro let the cubans who didn't support socialism leave. that's why the diaspora of cubans is more right leaning than cubans who live in cuba.

still remember when I went to Cuba and saw busts of political leaders in people's front yards.

Imagine if Americans had a stone bust of George Washington sitting right next to their driveway and lawnmower