Matveyuk, Sergei
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What does socialism do to those who disagree? The sign was small. Just a little placard. The kind you might put on your desk next to a family photo or a coffee mug. It said: "I'm with Fidel." Estoy con Fidel. Every government worker in Cuba was expected to display one. Armando Valladares was twenty-three years old in I960. He worked at the Office of the Ministry of Communications in Havana. He had initially supported Castro's revolution — like many young Cubans, he had hoped it meant…- 5.7 K • Completed
- If socialism is paradise, why do they build walls to keep people IN? I want to tell you about a wall. Not a metaphorical wall. A real one. Made of concrete and barbed wire and guard towers with machine guns. I want to tell you about an eighteen-year-old boy named Peter Fechter, and what happened to him on August 17, 1962. And I want you to ask yourself a question that the socialists will never answer: If their system is so good, why do they have to build walls to keep people from…
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- What happens when a country with more oil than Saudi Arabia cannot feed a zoo? Let me tell you about an elephant named Ruperta. This is not a metaphor. This is not a parable. This is a story about an actual elephant, in an actual zoo, in an actual country that was once the richest in Latin America. Pay attention. Because what happened to Ruperta is what happens to every country that chooses the path you're being told is compassionate. Ruperta was an African elephant. She lived at…
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