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  1. So did China, Romania, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and North Korea.
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  2.  @freepalestine7687  I'd call it mismanagement.
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  3.  @alexdavis1541  Because even socialism/communism has rich and poor.
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  4.  @usdepartmentofthetreasury489  Cuba is kept alive with US remittances and food aid.
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  5. That's why Cuba does everything to make sure the military is kept fed.
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  6. Why should the US help them? The US owes them nothing and Cuba is self-reliant.
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  7.  @pedrolopes3542  Capitalism also exists and thrives in socialist/communist countries via the black market.
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  8.  @MrRezillo  Namely due to Xi wanting to take China back to the Mao era.
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  9. Let's just not talk about the Cuban government's economic repression or the lack of Venezuelan oil to keep them afloat.
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  10.  @eliza5960  Cuba = just a politically stable Haiti.
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  11. In Cuba's case, the Soviet aid. The free Venezuelan oil. The Canadian and European tourism. And the US remittances.
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  12. Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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  13. You misspelled socialism.
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  14. Vietnam liberated its economy. If anything, it's Cuba that needs to get with the times. That central planning communist model just isn't going to cut it in 2024.
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  15. It was a solution for Chile. And Argentina was destroyed by socialist politicians and policies just like Jamaica under Michael Manley. The IMF and World Bank are just end results of countries brought to their knees by socialists and far-left kooks allowed to be in charge.
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  16. Raul Castro is not in power anymore. It's now Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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  17. Exactly.
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  18. No. It's the Cuban government punishing its own citizens with constant economic repression.
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  19.  @georgeantonopoulos545  LOL. But at least capitalist countries can feed themselves adequately while communist countries have to rely on foreign aid to cover for their command economy's shortcomings.
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  20. Which only goes to show how far Cuba has fallen since the Revolution.
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  21. LOL.
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  22. Yes it is. <Also almost every single "socialist" country adapted soviet model, which is a parody of socialism. But yeah I get it, it's popular thing to say this Cuban nonsense is real socialism, so who cares if it's true or not.> Socialism is a parody in and of itself. And that Cuban nonsense was not "real" socialism only because didn't prosper living off of Soviet and Venezuelan handouts for most of its post-Revolucion existence.
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  23. By and large.
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  24. But the Cuban government's central planning and loss of foreign aid did the most damage.
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  25.  @JebusHypocristosX  Like the typical Western leftist. And by the way, fascism is a communist idea.
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  26. Cuba = the WEF's wet dream come true.
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  27. The only embargo on Cuba is that by the Cuban government.
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  28.  @victorcano1289  Jamaica is another country that got destroyed by socialism courtesy of Michael Manley.
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  29.  @victorcano1289  Jamaica = a country that got destroyed by socialist politicians.
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  30. Pretty much.
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  31. Because that didn't stop Cuba from chugging along thanks to Soviet and Venezuelan aid. Interesting how that loss did far more damage than the sanctions.
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  32. Puerto Rico crumbled due to far-left politics.
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  33. The only embargo going on in Cuba is that of the Cuban government against its own citizens.
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  34.  @NorceCodine  How many of those 1 million want to switch places with the 100's of thousands who'd much rather be homeless in America than continue living in squalor and tyranny in Cuba?
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  35. Cuba regressed.
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  36. China and Vietnam liberated their economies. Why can't Cuba do the same?
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  37.  @Andrei-sg7lu  Namely that of the ruling PCC.
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  38.  @pedrolopes3542  Pretty much.
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  39. Even Karl Marx himself admitted in the end capitalism is the better system.
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  40. Cuba is not suffering from overpopulation but communism running its natural course.
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  41. North Korea exists only because of Chinese aid.
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  42. Socialism cannot provide anything adequately let alone sustainably.
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  43. South Africa is crumbling.
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  44.  @jackprescott9652  Just ask Canada.
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  45. Namely that by the Cuban government.
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  46. If you want to see socialism at work in Canada or the US, look no further than the average public housing slum in any major city.
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  47. Exactly. If China and Vietnam can do it, Cuba can too.
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  48. It was when Batista ruled.
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  49. Like Guyana did. It's only recently that it did away with Burnham's legacy and policies that once made it the 3rd poorest country in the Americas.
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  50. Castro's economic repression and the loss of Soviet aid did far more damage to Cuba than any US sanction.
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  51.  @JebusHypocristosX  Sanctions do not prevent anything. The Cuban government's overtaxing and regulating is why it has no real industry. Who wants to produce when 80% of your work will get seized by the state?
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  52. Ditch the central planning.
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  53.  @Jayjayb1  Who exactly are you to decide how much food one needs? Better to have and not need like America than to need and not have like Cuba.
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  54. Pretty much.
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  55.  @iattacku2773  Pretty much.
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  56. Nope. Cuban communism at it again.
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  57. Courtesy of the the Cuban government. There's no more foreign aid to prop up an economy they destroyed with price control and nationalization.
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  58.  @timmytrimble4069  You're free to go work elsewhere.
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  59. Which Cubans? The people or the PCC elites?
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  60. But that middle path is coming undone by mass immigration.
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  61.  @bronceage7265  Just so socialists can be relevant.
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  62.  @timmytrimble4069  No. Cuban government oppression.
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  63. But they are subject to import bans just like in Venezuela.
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