They get education if they are a Pionero starting in the first grade and follow the communist doctrine which includes turning in their parents for doing anything "wrong"

You say you live where you choose? aren't you lucky.

"Possible victim: Cuba, if Castro dies. But that's more likely to be a velvet takeover by economic means than a shooting war. If it happens, millions of Cubans will shortly descend from being basically okay into living in desperate poverty."

Who wrote that? You? You brought it into the thread. Your statement about basically Ok is a joke. They are already "living in desperate poverty"

Why do basically OK people want to risk their life in shark infested waters to get to the "lousy" US?

How much money does a basically OK person make?: 210/21=$10
http://www.cartadecuba.com/Life%20in%20Red.htm

DAILY LIFE IN CUBA

(or "Life in Red")

by: Raul Rivero

Independent Cuban Journalist

(Published by Le Monde, Paris, France, on January 2, 1999)

..... A dollar is equivalent to 21 Cuban Pesos. The average salary in Cuba is 210 pesos a month.

Distribution of food and other products under the Rationing Card {libreta de racionamiento} in Havana:

Monthly, per person:

6 pounds of rice
3 pounds of brown sugar
3 pounds of refined sugar
20 ounces of beans (green peas or lentils)
12 ounces of coffee
Half a liter of oil (every two or three months)
10 ounces of salt
One quarter pound of ground beef/soy mixture
Half a pound of mortadella (every two months)
1 pound of fish
6 eggs
1 bar of laundry soap (every two months)
1 bar of bath soap (every two months)
1, 80-gram, loaf of soft bread, (daily)
1 tube of toothpaste (every two months for three people)

Distribution of food and other products under the Rationing Card {libreta de racionamiento} in the provinces:
Monthly, per person:
5 pounds of rice
3 pounds of brown sugar
3 pounds of refined sugar
16 ounces of beans (green peas or lentils)
4 ounces of coffee
Half a liter of oil (twice a year)
6 ounces of salt
One quarter pound of ground beef/soy mixture or of luncheon meat
8 eggs a month
2 pound of fish (every two months)
2 bar of laundry soap (every three months)
2 bar of bath soap (every three months)
1,60-gram, loaf of soft bread, (daily, in the capitals of provinces and municipalities)
1 tube of toothpaste (every two months for three people)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Raul Rivero was born in Moron, Cuba in 1947. He is one of the founders of Caimin Barbudo magazine, served as personal secretary to Nicolas Guillan (the official poet laureate of Cuba); was Moscow correspondent for Prensa Latina news agency; received the Cuban National Poetry Award, and was one of the signers of the protest document titled the Carta-Ruptura de los Diez, in 1991. In 1995, he founded the independent press agency Cuba Press, which he still directs. He also serves as correspondent for El Nuevo Herald of Miami, and as the Cuba-based editor for Carta de Cuba magazine, of which he was one of the first collaborators. Mr. Rivero has been elected regional vice president of the Committee on Freedom of the Press of the Interamerican Press Society; was awarded the 1997 prize from the France Foundations and Reportieres Sans Frontieres; is the author of the book of poems Firmado en La Habana (published in France by Maspero Publishing in 1998), and collaborates with Radio Marti, CubaNet, Ediciones Cibi and Cuba Free Press. The author has suffered arrests and acts of rejection, and has not been allowed to travel to Paris to receive his prize, nor to accept invitations from other capitals in Europe and America.

Judging from this, the author knows more about communisim that you.