also will be no Cuban Missile Crisis and No Bay of Pigs invasion
in 1963 JFK Will Continue to Live and no Assasination in Dallas
THREE Years? Three?
For this?
Leave the dead rest in peace.
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also will be no Cuban Missile Crisis and No Bay of Pigs invasion
in 1963 JFK Will Continue to Live and no Assasination in Dallas
THREE Years? Three?
For this?
Leave the dead rest in peace.
CalBear in Mod Mode
I'm not sure whether or not I should be surprised that no one is considering the Cuban Revolution as a good thing for Cuba.
Cuba under Batista was dirt poor except for a select few oligarchs who were swimming in dirty money or money from the casinos. Everyone else was poor and miserable, with few prospects for advancement, as was the case in most US satellites at the time; really, Cuba was just another Banana Republic (but with mobsters and casinos instead of United Fruit).
Holy shit.
Did not read the dates.
I'm amazed that people would think that Cubans would want statehood, as if they would just up and abandon their patriotism because AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!Given the record of small, non-revolutionary (hell,we never even had a real war for independence from Spain!) Puerto Rico,which HAS been a territory for 114 years and still gets slapped down by US conservatives whenever we argue statehood, Cuba has zero possibility of becoming a state.
Yeah, Batista had a huge amount of potential to do pretty much all the good Fidel, Raul and all the others did after the 1959 revolution without all the bloodshed. Unfortunately that Corrupt Bastard Grau won the '44 election, everything started backsliding. Hell, if say, Socarras or Batista had won in '44, and in Batista's case, remained a reformer, Fidel would have been just another lawyer, and Raul would have been just another activist, or involved in Social Science.If Batista stuck to only one term, or was re-elected to a second term in 1944, a TTL Batista second term in 1944-1948 could have seen him continue with his social reforms, including outlawing gambling and the Mafia. In that case, Batista could have, in TTL, been seen in a positive light instead during those TTL eight years à la Castro in OTL.
Yeah. The fifites were not a good time to be the average Cuban.I'm amazed that people would think that Cubans would want statehood, as if they would just up and abandon their patriotism because AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
It's frankly insulting to Cubans, whose oppression at the hand of corporatist thugs vastly outweighed what little money trickled down through the Casinos and fleshpots of Havana.
Yeah, Batista had a huge amount of potential to do pretty much all the good Fidel, Raul and all the others did after the 1959 revolution without all the bloodshed. Unfortunately that Corrupt Bastard Grau won the '44 election, everything started backsliding. Hell, if say, Socarras or Batista had won in '44, and in Batista's case, remained a reformer, Fidel would have been just another lawyer, and Raul would have been just another activist, or involved in Social Science.
Definitely agree with you there. Or you could have the Cuban Revolution of 1933 simply last longer and turn into a Mexican Revolution-style conflict (though compacted to five years, in my opinion, from the Mexican Revolution's 10). Whether or not it spills into a proxy for the Spanish Civil War is an open question.