Hello Everybody!!! - Viva la Republica de Cuba!

[Fidel Castro Ruz]

Hi everyone!!!
i'm new here so i don't want u to hate me like in other foreign forums...

Hello my brother Andrew!!!
whats your nick in this forum???

[CPK]

welcome!
hate you? not us. :)

[Chancho]

Fidel,

Is it true that you are known as 'the horse' (El Caballo) in Cuba? More to the point, is the reason for this nickname true?

[Fidel Castro Ruz]

i'm not sure 'bout "horse"...i've read smth about this...
1st thing i wanna say...I'm not cuban
2nd why i don't know much about Fidel...yes i know much more than my friends do but not too much like Andrew knows(i think :)) thats because of fuckin' democracy...democracy(american one) is the worst thing i know coz it sux...i'm from communistic country in the past and i know all the priorities of communism,but communism in my country wasn't ideal...people weren't free in my country...thats not good...but we had the best educational(FREE!!!) system in the world...u think all russians are stupid(now u know where i'm from) thats not true...before communism more than 80% of people didn't know even alphabet...in time of communism russian people were the first in readin' books,so how we can be stupid if we read a lot???now in democracy we've lost everything...corruption and money are everywhere...damn u think capitalism rules???no this sux!!!capitalism is the past!future is in communism,when man works for another man in capitalism he becomes a slave,in communism all people work for each other,help isn't for money(especially in Russia) coz we are not EASTern civilization but we are not WESTern so we have our own way...we mustn't listen to Europe and USA(NEVER!!!)....................and etc

[CPK]

very nicely said.
fidel.
:)

[Fidel Castro Ruz]

Thanks :)
and where is Andrew McSweeney???

[Chancho]

Fidel, for the record, my perception of Russians has always been one of very well educated people - particularly politically and philosophically. The same thing happened re literacy in Cuba after the Revolution. Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world - above that of the US and many other 'developed' countries.

[Fidel Castro Ruz]

and what about americans??
they don't read at all...huh they watch TV

[Markxs]

hi glad to have you around. i see russians as other ppl. not better or worse. i dont like stalin but he is not communist in my eyes.

[Jurhael]

The US has a literacy rate of about 75%

[Chief Rebel Angel]

is that a good thing? anyway, its not how many ppl can read, its what do those ppl read.. i mean u can have a 90% literacy rate with the population only reading comic books...

i like comic books btw :)

[RedCeltic]

Believe it our not but there is actualy something I like about the First lady.. .GW's Wife... She was a Librarian, and as First ladies always have to have some kind of a crusade, or quest or something, her's is the promotion of reading. She recently promoted the first ever National Book Fare... which when I heard of it I said to myself, " First ever?... You mean we're so backwards in the US we've never done this before?"

And Barbra Bush.. GW's mom tried to raise the literacy rate in the US... I don't think she did much, but they are expected to fight for something.

[Chief Rebel Angel]

WHOA ! "FIRST EVER"???!?!

[Drifter]

my father is quite right wing,,
but its ironic that if is wasn't for the 'socialist' (read: communist dictatorship) he would never have gotten the appretiship as a turner, and training in the army after he was conscripted, nor would he be able to escape and flee to france as a legitimate refugee.
he now owns his own factory in australia, lives in a big house and has a fair amount of money.
so in the end he gott the best out of both the capitalist and socialist systems

[Drifter]

i forgot to put in, that he's from romania by the way.
and its a shithole, let me tell you

[Kez]

Just reminded me,
when Bulgaria privatised its services to the capitalist whores, 80% went through corruption and now is not even in the country
lets all applaud the imf for forcing privatisation in these corrupt nations

U FUCKING WANKERS!
comrade kamo

[Angry Young Man]

Originally posted by Fidel Castro [email protected] 27 2001, 03:25 PM
and what about americans??
they don't read at all...huh they watch TV
whats your fave book then. i dont read as much as i should, but my fave is ''the beach'' followed closely by ''motorcycle diaries''. :)

[Amusing Scrotum]

Believe it our not but there is actualy something I like about the First lady.. .GW's Wife... She was a Librarian, and as First ladies always have to have some kind of a crusade, or quest or something, her's is the promotion of reading. She recently promoted the first ever National Book Fare... which when I heard of it I said to myself, " First ever?... You mean we're so backwards in the US we've never done this before?"

And Barbra Bush.. GW's mom tried to raise the literacy rate in the US... I don't think she did much, but they are expected to fight for something.

I think Barbara Bush and Laura Bush only have such a fondness for literacy because Georgey' boy is an illiterate buffoon. :)

Thats my opinion anyway.

[Tekun]

Welcome Fidel, Russians are intellectual indeed (Lenin, Trotsky, Ema Goldman)


Regarding literacy, I've heard/debated a great deal with ignorant right wing counter-revolutionaries that claim that Cuba's literacy % is inflated

And that the Cuban gov regards ppl as "literate" if they know how to write their name

Of course, I refuted his argument with facts and evidence
Just goes to show their hatred of Cuba and the revolution