East Germany vs West Germany josephine. Ya damned fool. Was East Germany better than right after the war? Yea. Was it good? HELL NAW!!!! Meanwhile, East Germany embezzled and blackmailed money from the West just to survive.
Well if the previous regime to Castro's was so damn good, why didn't it last, Lokmeer?
Why did the Bautista regime get the boot?
Couldn't have been that good as many Cubans were starving and illiterate when the Cmmunists took over.
It was just a Banana Republic controlled by the CIA and the Mafia. No wonder the people revolted.
I'm not saing that what they have now is ideal by any means, but it's probably a lot better than when Castro took over the place 60 years ago as this scene in the Godfather illustrates
Joe.....no one is saying what they had before was good.
Totalitarianism is misery. It all sucks. Its oppression. That's why they over threw that and why they want to over throw this.
Y'know Dovey, it would be ideal if Cuba could transition into a democracy.
If let to their own devices and free from foreign interference, they probably could.
But the Powers that Be, being who they are, probably wouldn't let them.
I'm sure if the corporations had their way, they'd 'better' the place by installing a MacDonald's Golden Arches on every street corner & stamping out all traces of the previous regime.
Then turn it into some Right wing corporate dicatorship just like in the good old days.
The totaliratrianism your make refernce to is prevalent in Cuba.
But if you compare it to some of the crime ridden shitholes in the Caribean like Haiti or the Dominican Republic, Cuba compares quite favourably & they avoided becoming like them.
Tho not without its faults, Cuba made some remarkable advances in Medicine.
ie - the Meningitis B vaccine came from Cuba.