Cuba’s Failed Communism Led to Protests
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Thousands of Cubans protested against Cuba’s communist regime in the largest demonstrations to erupt on the island country since its founding revolution 60 years ago.
Despite Fidel Castro’s promise of a communist paradise at the start of his reign in the 1960s, Cubans today are hungry from food shortages, suffering from a lack of medicines, and angry at their central government for its mismanagement.
As countless communist experiments revealed in the 20th century, dictators drop their ideals in the face of power and luxury, leaving their people hungry, poor, and protesting. When these founding dictators die, the citizens of their countries remain to pick up the pieces of reckless communist experiments.
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To better understand why it’s so effective, it would help to have a little background. The three pillars of the classic totalitarian model are:
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1) Total control of the information ecosystem (TV, radio, newspaper, internet).
2) Calibrated hunger (standing in long lines for hours for basic supplies to feed your family limits your bandwidth for planning and your appetite for a fight).
3) State terror imposed through a well-trained and armed security force (intended to dole out punishment that will dissuade and scare Cubans into an Orwellian mindset meant to extinguish the thought of any possibility of success).
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