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Originally posted by seretogis
Ever hear of the cuban missle crisis? :P
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Yeah, sure, but it wasn't the cubas who were the threat back then. It was the russians who were the threat, the just "used" the cubans. I don't see any nation that could do that again.
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Originally posted by Scipio
I don't want it to sound like a pro-Cuba policy is a cure-all, but it's pretty clear that exiling a country from the international community isn't a good way to promote democracy, economic development, or good relations with the US.
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I agree, I think exiling them has a negative effect on any "democratic movement", exiling gives them a feeling of "everyone is against us, lets stick closer together" and therefore hampers any try to change Cuba.
Trade and tourism would bring new ideas to them and perhaps start a "soft revolution" plus it would prepare Cuba for the time when Castro is no more.
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Originally posted by Lebell
Please name one communist country that is NOT run by a small group of people if not one man (i.e. a dictatorship).
And how quickly the new generation forgets (or never knew) the horrors of the gulag or the killing fields.
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I dont think that communism is always a dictatorship. Sure we haven't seen much other communist nations, but I still think (or hope) that ther could be a sort of "democratic communism". Plus I'm a beliver of the "Russia wasn't real communism" theory
You can give your nation whatever name you want, East-Germany called itself "democratic"...