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Thank you Gary for taking the time to present your most informative and interesting post.
As the years go by I look back at the propaganda we have been fed.
When a kid I thought those poor folk in the USSR how their masters fed them lies and they believed all of it.
But now when I look back I can see how we too were manipulated.
It still goes on of that I am sure.
Remember the weapons of mass destruction lies.
And in retrospect old Saddam would have had to be rather busy to bring more horror than has been visited upon all people in the region.
Overall I think we are so lucky to be so far away from all of it.
Its seems that Castro's rule saw less deaths than most other periods.
I think the population was around 6 million and now around 11 million.
So even at 10,000 deaths over 60 years was not too bad and probably off set by the improvement in health, in direct off set, and certainly to give free education and health is an achievent that can only be envied by USA.
Your observations on the mood of the people I found very interesting.
Thanks again.
Alex
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