• Gonzako
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    2 days ago

    Oh, yeah, definitely, they keep telling me how my mothers lived in Cuban stories are fake. The nuance has died long ago.

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      2 days ago

      I’m definitely interested in your mothers stories, for what it’s worth. (This isn’t a ‘your mom’ joke)

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        They were mainly about how she was used as forced labour and the mandatory military trainings. She says she wanted to come here to EU to be in a place where “they don’t have to wash up and re-use the diapers”.

        The Castro regime has done incredible things (100% literacy rate was great) but it is also a regime that’s just using the name of Communism to extract wealth from the people of Cuba.