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Actually our government eased up on the embargo and provided humanitarian aid to Cuba, passed by a Republican controlled Congress and signed by Bill Clinton.
Funny, Cuban refugees didn't start pouring out onto our shores crossing on anything that could float for 200 miles until the Castro brothers took control. So it must have been a place the Cuban people were much happier and had more opportunities to produce a good life for themselves.
BS on the Communism. Pull your head out of the sand. Hell do a google search.
Re: China and capitalism:
In 2012, China was the 18th fastest growing economy in the world, with a real GDP growth rate (constant prices, national currency) of 7.8 percent. Although the figure is its slowest growth since 1999, it is also representative of a maturing economy as it gradually transition from a developing to developed nation.
Since 1949, the Chinese government has been responsible for planning and managing the national economy. But it was only in 1978 – when Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalist market principles –that the Chinese economy began to show massive growth, averaging 10 percent GDP growth over the last 30 years. During that period the size of the Chinese economy grew by roughly 48 times, from $168.367 billion (current prices, US dollars) in 1981 to $8.227 trillion.
Communism is a failed ideology. It is dead. There is no longer a need to be fighting the cold war. We already won.