It's not as simple as "Castro was an evil dictator".

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10. Dear respected DUer: Allow me to dissent. If the "evil dictator" is too simple, at least

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let that concept to sit there a long long while and be fully absorbed without skipping over it and blocking it out and making all the allowances. And those of us who are not Cubans, not 1stGenExiles/CIA, are also not Saintlier-than-him-or-thou, can be repulsed by the oppression. Moving the camera angle back from the close-ups on the killings, torture, homophobia, and all the rest is the panoramic picture of the Cuban people kept in stifling oppression while this fellow pretended to be doing it all for them while living the highest of lives with billions stashed away.

I know we can't convert each other, and I'm certainly not a scholar about the history, so no discussion is possible here, but just wanted to say what I think, which the Cubans in Cuba can't do for themselves.