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From the graph it looks like not only was the Soviet Union propping Cuba up but something was happening holding those other countries back also. After the fall of the Soviet Union Cuba crashed and the other countries started going up dramatically.
- Yes, the Soviet Union kept a steady supply of goods that allowed the Cuban communist government to engage in all sort of wasteful actions, from maintaining a powerful military that intervened in other countries, to create a costly, yet ineffective healthcare system. An analysis of the Cuban agricultural conditions in the late 1980’s concluded that Cuban government farms had 30 thousand tractors
- **in excess** of the real need. The Cuban government also gave economic assistance to countries like Angola and Nicaragua, making the world think its economy was thriving, when in reality it was just giving away part of the Soviet Union’s assistance. And all that ended with Gorbachev’s perestroika.
- young mush headed socialists are always shocked when i tell them Latin America needed more Pinochet’s and fewer Castro, Ortega’s and Chavez’s. A sad and strange history. Havana was a beautiful city too, but there were many social ills.
I do think the Cubans just do not have the Savvy the Russians and the Eastern Europeans have, which made it possible for them to do away with Communism. On the other hand the USSR lasted 70 years. If that holds as an example for Cuba, then maybe just maybe Communism has about 10 years left in Cuba.
Slavery and human exploitation existed everywhere and in every culture in all of the 6000 years of recorded history. Enlightenment thinkers (incl the American founders) correctly identified a readily observable facts based objective morality (of self-preservation) from which the ideology of Classical Liberalism was derived and put into practice (by the founding of the USA).
This not only ended slavery and discrimination in the USA, but ultimately inspired the British (and others) to use their military to stamp out slavery everywhere they could, The founders established America on the principle of individual rights, but neither they nor the thinkers who followed them identified the deeper philosophic foundation on which this principle depends, namely, the morality of egoism
