#Cuban military

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Cuban Priest Voices Harsh Criticism of Cuban Regime 

A Cuban Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Camaguey, Alberto Reyes,  said in a visit to the U.S. that Cuba is experiencing one of the hardest times in recent years. “It would seem, and it is my hope, that this is a terminal moment, because it is very difficult (…) Civil society in Cuba feels very vulnerable and defenseless . Every time the Cuban people have tried to do something –we…

[miiilowo]

slightly over-engineered red leader tord design because i really really reaaaaallly like military uniforms & i thin k he deserves better than a hoodie under a blue trenchcoat. he doesnt tbh but i maybe deserve to see it. anyway

[nickysfacts]

A revolutionist to the end, who inspired those that succeeded in the end!

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[chronal-anomaly]

Woke up thinking about Lena smoking,,,

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Flying the U-2 Dragonlady Spy Plane, Reflections And Interesting Facts About Skunk Works Aircraft

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It’s been a year since the Russians invaded Ukraine and launched the biggest conventional war in Europe since the Nazis. One of the things that I think we’ve all worried about in that time is the underlying problem of nuclear weapons.

This is a nuclear-armed power at war with hundreds of thousands of people in the middle of Europe. This is the nightmare that American foreign policy has dreaded since the beginning of the nuclear age.

And I think people have kind of put it out of their mind, how potentially dangerous this conflict is, which is understandable, but also, I think, takes us away from thinking about something that is really the most important foreign problem in the world today.

During the Cold War, we would’ve thought about that every day, but these days, people just don’t think about it, and I think they should.

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Get Veterans Day Jewelry from William Barthman Jeweler

William Barthman Jeweler presents a special jewelry line for veterans featuring bold Cuban Chain Necklaces and Men's Military Jewelry that shows respect for service members' bravery and dedication.

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In this episode, Nicolette and Jared have a great conversation about the growing protest movement in support of the Palestinian people, university ties to the military industrial complex, how the US is losing its status as a global power by lacking investment in its own people, and how according to history, the US is on the cusp of a proletariat revolution.

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The Cold War phases of the Angolan, Namibian, and Mozambican Civil Wars are all unified with the term South African Border War:

One must keep in mind that in Angola, Mozambique, and Namibia the Cold War parts of the wars each fought were all in the eyes of contemporaries one war, now called as a unified term the South African Border War. These were the biggest African wars of the Cold War, fought by the Apartheid regime to strengthen white supremacy, and fought by the USSR via Cubans to weaken it. The Apartheid regime lost, and lost decisively against the Cubans at Cuito Cavanale, which was one of the first steps leading to the ultimate dismantling of Apartheid and to the slow realization that in Angola and Mozambique and Namibia that the wars that started during the Cold War did not automatically end when the Cold War did.

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Is the girls' version of the Roman empire the Cuban Missile Crisis? Cause I sure think bout it every day

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Analysis of Cuba’s Current Economic Crisis 

“Cuba is going through the worst crisis it has experienced in decades, with widespread shortages of food and medicines, rolling blackouts and a sky-high 400% annual inflation rate. The calls on the communist leadership to open up the economy to the market are getting loud, even from close political allies.”[1] “But deep divisions at the top of the regime regarding how much freedom to give the new…

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thinking back to when i had to stop watching odaat because of how offensive and antisemitic it was. to be clear, it was the episode where they compared beloved comrade che guevara to adolf hitler.

[mapsontheweb]

The Chinese concentration camp archipelago

by cartesdhistoire/instagram

« Atlas historique mondial », Les Arènes, 2e éd., 2023

2,047 / 5,000 There are two types of detention centers in China: laojiao, under the Public Security, and laogai, under the Ministry of Justice.

Laojiao is a form of administrative punishment imposed solely on people who have committed minor offenses. The term of internment cannot exceed four years. There are an estimated 300,000 prisoners (drug addicts, prostitutes and their clients, petty criminals) in over 300 camps.

Urban prisons and laogai, located in the countryside, include prisons for inmates sentenced to six months to twenty years, the aim of which is to reform the inmates through labor. It is estimated that there are 8 million prisoners in a thousand camps that resort to torture and degrading treatment. Starvation is common, leading to widely documented cases of cannibalism.

Laojiao, like laogai, uses prisoners for economic purposes and, like the Soviet gulag or the Cuban UMAP (Military Units for Aid to Production), it is one of the instruments of the power's territorial planning choices (major construction sites, pioneer fronts).

Beyond forced labor, Harry Wu, a Catholic dissident detained from 1960 to 1979 in the laogai, and founder in 1992 of the Laogai Research Foundation which made this system of camps more widely known in the West, reveals that the Chinese authorities collect organs from prisoners in order to transplant them onto members of the Chinese Communist Party.

It is estimated that 10 million prisoners and internees were held during each year of Mao's reign. 50 million prisoners are said to have passed through these camps since the communists came to power in 1949 and 20 million died there (cold, hunger, disease, fatigue, summary executions, etc.).

This concentration camp system created in 1951 still exists, as do other types of arbitrary detention called “black prisons” (hotels, disused offices, drug rehabilitation centers) where people are humiliated, beaten and tortured.

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Cubans march for peace in solidarity with Palestine

Thousands of Cubans of all ages marched in Havana Oct. 14 demanding an end to the genocide committed by the Zionist Government of Israel against the Palestinian people and its attacks on other nations in the Middle East.

Participants in the march, led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top leaders, denounced the complicity of the United States in the Zionist military onslaught that has killed more than 42,000 people in the Gaza Strip, including many women and children, and more than 2,000 in Lebanon.

[the-great-kraken]

why arthur christmas is the best christmas movie of all time:

- treating christmas as a military operation undertaken by battalions of elves risking their lives

- it nails the family dynamic: a vaguely offensive grandpa constantly talking about the good old days, an older man determined he's still young and a brilliant father, the coolest woman you've ever met brushed off as "Wife", an eldest child desperate for respect and acknowledgement, and a younger child beginning to notice the family's intense dysfunction. what could be more christmassy.

- a lot of dark humour for a kids movie and completely unafraid to drop references to the cuban missile crisis or vietnam war

- "is it true children aren't real and they're just antimatter?"

- at one point they hypnotise lions with a pair of novelty slippers and singing silent night

- moving on from the old ways but recognising that the technological age brings with it intense depersonalisation and in order to welcome it in we need to make changes to the way we view consumption to prevent everything falling to a corporate mindset

- the homoerotic energy between Steve and his elf and the blatant lesbianism of bryoney

- grandsanta says "at least finish us off with a rock" and arthur literally stops to consider it

- arthur's autistic swag

- "all around the streets, children on new bicycles pointing "THAT'S THE GIRL SANTA HATES!" she runs away, alcoholic by the age of nine, DEAD BEFORE SHE'S EVEN-"

- the US military shoots down santa after mistaking him for a ufo

- arthur running solely on weaponised anxiety for a good chunk of the movie

arthur christmas suffered from a terrible marketing campaign and i won't let it keep going on without the recognition it deserves