the Empire is trying to starve an entire nation into submission.

The truth on the other hand, is the unshakable reality that has driven every sanction, every sabotage attempt, and every assassination plot since 1959: Cuba is a threat only to an idea. It is a threat to the imperial doctrine that a small, poor nation in America’s ‘backyard’ must not be allowed to choose socialism, to provide free healthcare and education, and homes to live without the permission of Washington.
For this sin of self-determination, the crime of building a society where capital is not god, Cuba has been punished with the most enduring economic siege in modern history. This is not an ‘embargo’, which I consider to be a sterile, political term. It is a total blockade, designed to constrict and cripple. It is enforced by a plethora of laws with names like the Helms-Burton Act, which terrorises foreign companies from trading with the Island and allows the US to seize ships in international waters. Its goal, as US politician Robert Torricelli once admitted, was to…
‘Wreak havoc’.

  • rapchee@lemmy.world
    36·
    3 months ago

    yeah they had a famine in the soviet union, but the ukranians starved to death in millions

      • rapchee@lemmy.world
        15·
        3 months ago

        yeah there was no way to deliver food there, especially not from foreign countries that offered aid. also not possible to let people leave

          • rapchee@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            so they decided the potential industrial progress was worth however many deaths in the ukranian region
            not someone i would like to associate with
            also, it is a useless thought exercise, but would they have been crushed by the nazis? in the end, it was the winter that they didn’t prepare adequately for, plus the usa sent a bunch of equipment over, maybe they’d have sent more, if needed

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 months ago

      so?
      Want to blame the evil RuZZians for it like those Banderite nazis do bcs they got their ass kicked? LOL

      • rapchee@lemmy.world
        12·
        3 months ago

        who else was leading the soviet union? who exported the food out of ukraine? much like in the irish famine?

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
          31·
          3 months ago

          You have zero knowledge how the SU even worked.
          Where do you think Chruchov came from? The clown who gave Russian Crimea to that temporary anomaly.
          IDC what you and your nazi friends imagine happened, it’s BS.
          Grasping at straws to justify their Russophobia and blatant fascism.
          For everyone to see, even today.

          • rapchee@lemmy.world
            13·
            3 months ago

            You have zero knowledge how the SU even worked.

            not quite zero, but i’ll admit, i’m not super knowledgeable

            Where do you think Chruchov came from? The clown who gave Russian Crimea to that temporary anomaly.

            does it matter? did the ukranian people do it to themselves if that guy was from there originally?
            did/does it help the georgians that stalin was from there?

            Grasping at straws to justify their Russophobia and blatant fascism.

            russians keep serving pretty thick and sturdy straws
            also, til, criticising the soviet union/russia is fascism