Comment on fighting evil by moonlight
realitista@lemmus.org 3 hours agoI’m sorry, are you trying to tell me that the government system that oversaw the Holomodor was one with a conscience? As someone who lives in a former Soviet satellite state, I can ensure you they didn’t do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it because they collapsed under their own incompetence.
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Huh, and here I thought they did it because peaceful protests were just so darn effective.
First off, Cuba’s quality of life is greatly impacted by the US embargo. Secondly, even with the embargo Cuba’s quality of life greatly improved compared to what it had before. If the standard you have for quality of life is the Batista gangster state, I feel sorry for you.
Funny how you chauvanists always try to compare the quality of life in former colonies to that of the imperial core as if it’s some kind of point in your favor. If you do an actually fair comparison by looking at what came before, Castro was a massive improvement over Batista, the PRC was a massive improvement over the ROC, and the USSR was a massive improvement over the tsar.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
I’m comparing what our lives are here under democratic rule here in my country to what they were under the single party communist system. And we have no desire to go back. The communists will never win another election here, and for good reason. If you have to force your system of government on the population at gunpoint, it’s not anything to be proud of.
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
And again, if you want to argue that’s true in certain situations, then knock yourself out. Don’t try to propose it as some universal law or dismiss objective quality of life improvements in other countries.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
I’m only arguing based on the real world examples presented on each side of the argument to date.