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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!GTRI01.BITNET!LABBEY
  3. Message-ID: <HISTORY%92072314014166@RUTVM1.BITNET>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
  5. Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:52:52 EDT
  6. Sender:       History <HISTORY@RUTVM1.BITNET>
  7. From:         Lenny <LABBEY@GTRI01.BITNET>
  8. Subject:      Re: Anarchism
  9. In-Reply-To:  Message of Thu,
  10.               23 Jul 1992 11:57:51 -0400 from <AHAB000@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU>
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  13. Mario, I don't think you were around when Castro came to power.
  14.  
  15. If you were, you would remember the executions which were so massive as
  16. to border on class-genocide.  They were performed in a soccer stadium,
  17. because that was the only holding pen/firing squad facility large enough
  18. to accomodate the activity.
  19.  
  20. Castro did not "...get free of the Soviets..." because he wanted them.
  21. Castro did not start playing with the Russians until some time after
  22. the revolution, and then he played them very skillfully so as to never
  23. become completely beholden to them.  His skill was very much like that
  24. of Tito in Yugoslavia.
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  26.  
  27. Castro was not a "...breath of fresh air..." for anyone.
  28.  
  29. Lenny
  30.