Why do people pretend that Cuba was a shithole before the Commie Revolution? It was richer than most European countries.
Why do people pretend that Cuba was a shithole before the Commie Revolution? It was richer than most European countries.
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probably because for the vast majority of the population it was a shithole, granted thats still the case for most of them but trying to say pre commie conditions weren't bad is delusional
Vaat majority of the population was White.
LMAO
It was whuter than the USA. It was also segregated so the whites didn't mix with blacks and polute their genepool.
very funny anon
You must be black?
not quite, people in my country are white, indian and in between, the only black people are immigrants from venezuela, haiti, colombia... and cuba
What's your country?
does it matter? the situation is pretty much the same across the continent
Are you from a Central American country? I heard White Cubans discriminate against centrocacas due to your Indian features.
>White Cubans
So what does the Cuban rapper Pitbull look like? Would he fit in a BLM rally or a Klan rally?
BLM. He looks like a wigger.
He looks whiter than a lot of Klan members.
>the "woman" on the left
Another shining example of "la creatura de los Americas".
I can see the yoruba-taíno blood in him from miles away
it doesn't matter much if a person is blonde and blue eyed when as soon as they open their mouth the words "asere muyayo cosa ma grande hata la victolia siempre real hata la muelte echaito palante ome yo ya venia glaba" come out
Bullshit, if his name was Tod Smith you would see no such thing. He looks whiter than most Spanish people, he can pass for some random Angloid redneck with pinkish skin and rounded features.
it might be the cut or the facial hair but he has a really noughties Lican look to his face.
Probably Canada.
Talks like an argie
You will never be white, Gonzalez.
Whiter than you, Dashawne Tyrone Willems.
what are you saying marielito? that's the average cuban name too hahaha
So you're the centrocaca? Still whiter than you, indio midget homosexual.
im not central american
>Still whiter than you, indio midget
that's three wrong shots!
you're blacker than me, you have carib blood (origin of the word cannibal! uncivilized even for indian standards) and the avg cuban height is 168. for comparison, salvador's avg height is 172
>im not central american
>salvador
Now you have outed yourself , you centrocaca shitstain. So you're a Salvadoran homosexual? Lol even the Mexicans look down on you worthless pieces of shit. They call you cerote turds.
i used salvador for comparison because they're a shithole worse than cuba so you couldn't have the "muh communism starved people" excuse
Quiet down, Salvy. The civilised people are trying to have conversations here.
>It was richer than most European countries.
Albania is most European countries?
It was richer than almost every Scandinavian and Eastern European country. Only Western Europe was richer.
Eastern Europe in the 1940s was a dumpster fire.
lol no shit, it was the 40s and 50s, europe was a wartorn shithole
watch I Am Cuba
Because a bunch of sugar barons were loaded while everybody else was dirt poor
Because it was a mafia state where normal people saw zero wealth
>Caribbean Macau-Thailand sex tourism-gambling paradise.
>NOT a shithole.
Everything outside of a few neighborhoods in Havana was africa tier.
This is the second largest city in Cuba. What part of Africa looked like this in the 40s-50s?
Nairobi looks pretty nice.
The tallest building is three stories, and that's the capital of one of the richest countries in Africa back then?
That was not the tallest building in Nairobi on the 1950s (which I guess would have been the Parliament building). It is, however over 100 metres tall. Its almost twice the height of the 14-storey Lopez Serrano building in Havana. Not all floors are created equal.
The tallest building in Havana in the 1950s was the FOCSA Building which was 130 meters tall with 37 stories.
This is the Nairobi parliament "building". Fucking kek.
Looks like a high school
batista-era cuba is actually a vision of the future for all western economies
>It was richer than most European countries.
And all of those riches went into American pockets, not Cuban ones.
>be south american shithole
>99% of the population lives in crushing poverty
>there's like one or 2 nice looking city centres built as playgrounds for a wealthy elite though
>there's some kind of a revolution or reform movement
>poverty drops, but there's still problems in the country
>pull out old photos of these 2 nice places to scream about how the country was hecking destroyed and how we wuz
why are they like this?
A lot of this wealth was based on a surge of U.S. investment after WWII but your access to that was dependent on your political connections, so it was extremely corrupt and a lot of money that was supposed to be spent just disappeared into a black hole, so GDP looked great "on paper" but the infant mortality rate was a typical third-world basket case, children running around with parasites in their bellies, and only 2% of the rural population having access to eggs (weird since you'd think they'd have plenty of chickens).
It was kinda like the U.S. South as it was also segregated by race. And the Cuban revolution also had a strangely "luddite" dimension as there was a push to mechanize sugar agriculture which threatened a lot of rural agrarian jobs without anything to substitute them with.
All the best architecture in Cuba is from the late 1800s and very early 1900s, turn of the century neo-classical architecture. It looks like a Caribbean version of Buenos Aires, very European looking, moreso the the US. So how did they build all that impressive infrastructure decades earlier if their wealth was based on WWIi? GDP doesn't just look great on paper, you could actually see it that wealth in the built environment of Cuba. Even to this day Cuban cities are more impressive than most cities of Latin America.
I'm not as familiar with pre-WWII history of Cuba, but apparently it was similar with sugar exports to the United States in the early 20th century and I'd assume some of the proceeds from those exports would be recapitalized in buildings. I guess the problem is looking at pretty buildings instead of the people though, because who makes revolution? People do, not buildings. So why did they make a revolution?
Interesting chart showing GDP per capita, which had barely changed since 1900. Also you see a big decline during the Great Depression as sugar exports to the U.S. declined, then a resumption after WWII which I think created an excruciating economic "contradiction" in the society, so suddenly there's all this new American investment and money flowing in but it's orbiting around a politically-connected and clientistic elite in the cities (particularly Havana).
>Cubans are now insisting that they are white
It was only 64% white in the last census. You will never be a white man, Pedro
Santa Clara, the 5th largest city in Cuba in the 40s and 50s.
>richer than most European countries.
Do naggers really believe this?
No, negroids believe the exact opposite. They believe Cuba was a medieval feudal state before the communists kicked out all the racist white capitalists from the country.
Cienfuegos, the 9th largest city of Cuba in 1923.
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