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Originally Posted by AussieTrooper
Have you?
The trendy logic tends to go along these lines.
- Castro didn't like the USA.
- I don't like the USA.
- Castro must be good.
If it was the same guy doing the same things in Africa, he'd be just another third world dictator and nobody would give a crap, let alone make a hero out of him. But he 'stood up to the US', so he must be someone to be in awe of right?
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Hi Ben
I found a Cuban archive which I cant download for whatever reason.
The number is about 10,000 which includes much more than firing squad, even deaths from hunger strikes and missing persons.
What I found surprising was that the reign of terror saw relatively few deaths, well to my expectations at least.
I am sorry I cant post the numbers.. the distribution over time I found interesting and curious. I have not worked out per capita numbers or averages or compared the numbers with other revolutions or say the deaths from drug wars.
It seems he is being genuinely mourned in Cuba maybe he is a "you love him or hate him sortta guy" and no doubt if one of your relatives were on the wrong end of a firing squad you may be tempted to celebrate his passing.
I like the USA and so my comment is not motivated in the way you suggest but I think that there would few who have "stood up to USA" that did so with the sucess of Castro and I think that is a fact rather than a bias.
I cant wait for the movie.
Alex
Alex