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Thread #30932   Message #399880
Posted By: Troll
16-Feb-01 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bushwhacked SIX
Subject: RE: BS: Bushwhacked SIX
Little Hawk. Castro did all the things you said he did but he went one farther that really screwed him with 1960's America. He announced that he was a Marxist-Leninist.
After that no American Administration would touch him. To have done so would have been to commit political suicide.
People of today do not understand the fear that the post-WWII government had for "world communism". It was perceived as a very real threat, as was nuclear war.If you were not alive during those times you cannot understand how nearly everyone felt. Kruschev stood up in the UN and announced that the USSR would bury us. It was a scary time.
So don't be too quick to judge what happened in the late 50's and early 60's vis a vis Castro. There was a lot more playing into it than just United Fruit losing it's monopoly and the Mafia losing their money-laundry.

troll