Reply #22: We are exiles. [View All]

[social_critic]

Had little choice, either go to jail, get murdered, or flee. Those who did stay and tried to make the communists change went to jail. Most of them died, or were released - into exile. The best solution is passive resistance. They can take the island, destroy it as they have, and we'll go back when they change their minds. But there's no way to reason with a committed marxist, or a person who is into personality worship of a maximum leader, or for that matter an arrogant maximum leader who thinks he is god's gift to humanity and kills anybody who is willing to debate his wisdom.

I won't be insulted by your "sarcasm", it's the sarcasm of a naive bystander who doesn't understand the extent of repression in these regimes. And I sure hope you never have to taste it. I used to have nightmares after I left Cuba. All exactly the same: I dreamed I was back in Cuba. It happens to many of us, we are traumatized by the sheer despair and visions of the abuse we had to endure.