Bluesman

So, basically, just another dictator that passes power through his own family, instead of a rational and orderly transfer of authority according to rule of law and the people's wishes.

Meh. Seen it before, as a matter of fact, we see it every single time another 'people's republic' strongman is replaced by a method other than being toppled.

Oh, I think I see your point: it was merely our paranoid fear that made him out to be a monster, not the fact that he was as murderous and repressive as any other benevolent personality cult that was working on behalf of his captive poplation, right?

Nah, sorry; I have read the accounts of what happens to dissidents and anybody that doesn't want to live in a police state. We have the examples of all those people that would rather lose their lives on the open ocean to escape than live under a ferocious regime of dicatatorship and slavery.

And finally, we have the historical record of Castro's relentless spread of the misery of 'revolution' from his own horrible vision for his people throughout Latin America and Africa.

So, no sale; it wasn't us that chose to somehow make him worse than he was, because that wasn't really possible. Indeed, there are the useful idiots among us that, even as he was committing black crimes against humanity, chose to praise him and hold him up as a shining example of a 'progressive' leader.

Communism is NOT great on paper, or anywhere else, and that's an ignorant interpretation that we've all grown up hearing. It's ALWAYS a system of evil, and that's true even in the philosophical realm.

And good riddance. It'll be an even better day when the old bastard finally dies and goes to his hot little corner of Hell for the reward he so richly deserves.

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