Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator. He oversaw the executions of thousands upon
thousands of his opponents and ruthlessly crushed all sorts of human freedoms. All in all a brutal despot.

But Claire Curran think's he was a legend.

Good work Labour! Next they'll be telling us how much they admired Stalin.

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On 11/27/2016 12:49 PM, JohnO wrote:

Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator. He oversaw the executions of thousands

upon thousands of his opponents and ruthlessly crushed all sorts of human freedoms. All in all a brutal despot.

But Claire Curran think's he was a legend.

Good work Labour! Next they'll be telling us how much they admired Stalin.

Tbey share/d the same belief system

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On 27/11/2016 12:49 p.m., JohnO wrote:

Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator. He oversaw the executions of thousands

upon thousands of his opponents and ruthlessly crushed all sorts of human freedoms. All in all a brutal despot.

But Claire Curran think's he was a legend.

Good work Labour! Next they'll be telling us how much they admired Stalin.

Oi! He emptied the Cuban prisons and mental asylums! Shipped them all
off to the US of A like the good widdle marxist the bastard was.

Pooh

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On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:49:24 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
wrote:

Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator. He oversaw the executions of thousands upon thousands

of his opponents and ruthlessly crushed all sorts of human freedoms.
All in all a brutal despot.

But Claire Curran think's he was a legend.

Good work Labour! Next they'll be telling us how much they admired Stalin.

This watermelon is no better
Green MP Steffan Browning http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/11/browning_cant_understand_why_cuban_exiles_are_celebrating_castros_death.html
It doesn't say much of people in the coalition of losers
Who incidentally as expected are in a popularity freefall on tonight's
TV1 poll.

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On 11/27/2016 8:28 PM, Liberty wrote:

On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:49:24 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
wrote:

Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator. He oversaw the executions of thousands upon thousands

of his opponents and ruthlessly crushed all sorts of human freedoms.
All in all a brutal despot.

But Claire Curran think's he was a legend.

Good work Labour! Next they'll be telling us how much they admired Stalin.

This watermelon is no better
Green MP Steffan Browning http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/11/browning_cant_understand_why_cuban_exiles_are_celebrating_castros_death.html
It doesn't say much of people in the coalition of losers
Who incidentally as expected are in a popularity freefall on tonight's
TV1 poll.

Long may they demonstrate their stupidity, ignorance and insanity to the voters.

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On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:49:24 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
wrote:

Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator. He oversaw the executions of thousands upon thousands of his opponents and ruthlessly crushed all sorts of human freedoms. All in all a brutal despot.

Quite so, but as agents for social progress and justice, US-backed
Bastida and his murdering neighbours weren't so remarkable either,
were they? And even today, the US and Britain - with the likes of New
Zealand dutifully in tow - continue to kneel to totalitarian despots.
Plus ca change.

With the horrors of WW1 and WW2 still resonating, the boringly 'quiet'
50's were now ending with Communism dominant in Space. The mounting
nuclear faceoff between East and West now presented the distinct
prospect of the world's two super powers destroying both us and
everything other living thing.

Enter Castro, the hair trigger; then add Cuba's geographically
sensitive location and the 'romance' that was Che Guevarra to
understand why Castro and a tiny island less than half the area of New
Zealand are already writ large in the history books.

But Claire Curran think's he was a legend.

Clare Curran has no first-hand experience of the times, but lives her
smug and unscathed talk-is-easy existence through the lives and
actions of others.

Here's the best account I can find of the zeitgeist when highest hopes
and deepest doom went hand in hand. And as one who lived through it,
it's as livingly vivid and fearsome as it was then.

http://tinyurl.com/zounhym

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