https://twitter.com/LeoFeldmanNEWS/status/1415396427623194627?s=19

https://nitter.snopyta.org/LeoFeldmanNEWS/status/1415396427623194627?s=19

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    These public trials and executions were held to the overwhelming approval of the public, pretty much for the purpose of mollifying widespread popular fury toward former Batistiano thugs and terrorists who had made the masses suffer and killed their relatives for years. Historians believe they most likely prevented a bloodbath of mob justice that would have killed hundreds more indiscriminately, and the trials were the method by which the revolutionaries established their authority and re-established some semblance of rule of law.

    If you were tried and executed because of these trials, it's because you were a close collaborator with the murderous Batista regime. "Police chief of Santa Clara", yeah, I fucking bet he was.

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It's either a centralized thing like this, or the widespread people's taking their own justice as seen in the Cultural Revolution. I'm sure if Cuba was bigger, it would have been more like the Cultural Revolution.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Historians believe they most likely prevented a bloodbath of mob justice that would have killed hundreds more indiscriminately

      If the French Revolution had ended with the decapitation of the aristocracy, liberals would still be whining and moaning about how horrible it was, while casually breezing over the multiple world wars the English and French aristocracy kicked off against each other.

      I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, imagine if the French Revolution had been even half as clean and orderly as the Cuban Revolution?

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.