Why and how did Cuba go commie?
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The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s regime by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro in the 1950s. It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raul Castro and Huber Matos, respectively. The term "Cuban Revolution" is also used to refer to the social revolution after the overthrow in 1959 to present and the adoption of Marxist principles by the new Cuban Government.
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lol.   we just attack anybody that doesnt follow our ways huh?  You dont agree with us you die?  We allowed Cuba to stay communist in OUR hemisphere.  This is one of the worst questions I have ever read.
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Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, came to power in 1959 and immediately instituted a communist program of sweeping economic and social changes. Castro allied his government with the Soviet Union and seized and nationalized billions of dollars of American property. U.S. relations with Cuba have been strained ever since. A trade embargo against Cuba that was imposed in 1960 is still in place today. \n\nTwelve years after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, Cuba continues to command the attention of U.S. policymakers. Although Russia and the former eastern bloc countries have undergone widespread democratic and free-market economic reform, Cuba remains one of the only communist dictatorships in the world. Removing Castro from power and implementing reform in Cuba are top U.S. foreign policy priorities, but lawmakers disagree on the best course of action.
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Cuba is ninety miles from the US.  Cuba was the only country in the western hemisphere that was communist.  Russia put missiles in Cuba directed at the US,  The wealthy Cubans got out and moved to Florida when Castro took over, became a political force.  Russia was the only other superpower that could challenge the US and in Cuba they were too close for comfort.  Remember the times -  it was early 60s.  Only two powers had nukes, Russia and the US.  School children practiced drills against nuke attacks.  They were taught to hid under school desks. Shelter were set up  and stocked by the govt in case of a nuke strike.  It was not too long after the Red scare congressional hearings and many US citizens being ruined by blacklisting.  A big difference now and then is that the US economy was strong.  Manufacturing took place in the US.  We had the natural resources to  keep the country going.  It was  around 20 years since Europe was torn apart by a World War.  It was around 20 years since the US saw what a nuke could do.  Rmemmber Japan.  Memories were fresh and not yet part of history  that few people are still alive to remember. Items made in Japan were trinkets with a low value.  We had a nice little war going called Viet Nam against the Communist.  How could we say it was OK for them to be in Cuba even though the previous system was a place of extreme wealth and extreme poor.  Corruption was common and then go to war against the same political system in Southeast Asia. War in the past  always helped the US economy. The reason that we don't don't beat the drum against China the way we did USSR is that China holds a huge chunk of the US debt now.  If they called it in the US would be bankrupt.
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is free education worth all our freedoms?\ni mean seriously. who would want to be a governemnt slave? the concept of communism is that everyone gets the same amount of money and they all have to have the same number of children and they all have to be exactly alike. america isnt my favorite country but its better then cuba.
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American imperialism after World War 2. The US tried to stop Communism everywhere, in an attempt to manipulate everyone into thinking democracy is better than communism. The conflict is the fact that the USSR did not have a communist form of government, but was run by the so-called Communist party. The Communists didn't follow the rules of communism, and America did what it did to show us how we need to rely on our government to protect us from "evil".
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Read the communist manifesto by Karl Marx.  It explains his theory.\n\nThe reason China is communist is because FDR was a marxist at heart, and wasn't concerned about what Mao Se Dong would do to China
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partly, yes. Cuba, as you know is a commie country who hates America (or at least Fidel Castro does). I think bush is too paranoid...
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Cuba is a communist nation. the people get treated right some Cubans want to overthrow the president Fidel Castro because he has been in power for over 43years. They cant have free elections and they are not allowed to talk bad about their president.
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What the hell is your question? Commie!
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He was Fidel Castro's right hand man.  He was a communist and was instrumental in Cuba severing ties with the US.
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I think you had a wrong history about Cuba...\nFind something a little more precise here;\nThe recorded history of Cuba began on 24 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus sighted the island during his first voyage of discovery and claimed it for Spain. The island had been inhabited for at least several thousand years by Amerindian peoples known as the Taíno and Ciboney. The Taíno were farmers and the Ciboney were hunter-gatherers. The name Cuba is derived from the Taíno word cubanacán, meaning "a central place".\n\nThe coast of Cuba was fully mapped by Sebastián de Ocampo in 1511, and in that year Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded the first Spanish settlement at Baracoa. Other towns, including Havana (founded in 1515), soon followed. The Spanish, as they did everywhere in the Americas, oppressed and enslaved the indigenous population which, within a century, died out as a result of the combined effects of disease and mistreatment. The settlers then introduced African slaves, who soon made up a significant proportion of the inhabitants.
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I have been to Cuba and am not American.  Ignore any misinformation you see about Cuba from the American government.\n\nBasically, in the 1920s-1950s Cuba was used by America as a sleazy tourist resort where Americans were 1st class citizens and Cubans were treated like cr*p.  \n\nThe revolution kicked America out of Cuba (rightfully) and gave the country back to the Cubans.\n\nThrough Americas ongoing sanctions against Cuba it has become poorer throughout the decades and is a country that seems locked in the 1950s - with 50s style cars, little traffic, minimal material items and food rationing among Cubans.  \n\nSince the 90s, major European countries and Canada have been trading with Cuba and have helped to build up the Cuban economy (slightly) primarily through tourism.  \n\nThe majority of people in Cuba are poor and rely on either cash from outside their country or tourism to survive.  There are no rich people in Cuba, even the politicians lead moderate lives. \n\nThere are few jobs but people have other important aspects to their lives - music for example.  Music plays a big part  in Cuban culture and it is common to hear live music echoing through the streets.\n\nOne of the conflicts in Cuban society now is how to deal with touts becoming rich through tourism.  A dollar is worth a lot of money in Cuba, so you have Doctors working away for maybe $30/month, whereas touts can loiter in tourist areas hassling tourists and easily earn $30/day.   \n\nGenerally though, Cuba is an interesting place to visit and will change massively in the next few years once Castro dies, but if you do visit dont expect it to be ANYTHING like life you know in the US of A.\n\nOh - And yes, Cuba DOES have the Internet!!  Uncensored I may add!
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It ushered in communism and the beginning of the Soviet Union.
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Cuba\n\nThe Russians found that communism sucks. China is moving away from communism. North Korea and Cuba are the only real commies left and both their economies are terrible. Vietnam is also moving away from communism.
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Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism also refers to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal.\n\nAmerica is scared becuase golbally capitalism is on the decline and they see Latin america becoming more and more close to Communist values.
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Other than China, Communism is very prevalent in N. Korea with their totalitarian dictatorship. It is also the form of government in Cuba. This form of government in Cuba leads many people to leave the country via floating objects trying to end up in the Florida Keys. When these people land "feet dry" they can file for asylum in the United States to protect them from the Cuban government.