![]() ![]() you can thank vaccines for pretty much eradicating Polio. Instead of trying to make a joke about gulags, please enjoy these adorable baby porcupines. And by repression, we mean Stalinist gulags. ![]() ![]() Have they ever wondered how he could stay in power for almost half a freaking century? May Day baskets? Free shower curtains? Nope, Castro has maintained power the same way every dictator in the history of civilization has done it: political, civil and media repression. Maybe the celebrities of the world discount those numbers the thing about a communist dictatorship is it's kind of hard for outsiders to get solid information (Internet access there is restricted, and emails are monitored). The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy puts the number between 15,000 and 18,000. The Cuban American National Foundation estimates that there have been 12,000 political executions since the bearded one took power in 1959. Chevy Chase put it best when he described Cuba under Castro as proof that "there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people stabilized at a certain level." In a weird way, Chase was right Castro's version of socialism has kept people stabilized through imprisonment and mass executions. ![]()
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