the Castros were land owners under Bautista and their lands were among the first to be distributed during collectivization, maybe its the data from that period. I would also think that Castro's 'net worth' is tied to him being at the helm of Cuban government and because of the way it is organized some might interpret it as personal worth. of course that is a very bad faith interpretation of the matter

Those numbers are because journalists attribute state resources to political leaders, which only makes sense when you have the assumption that they’re autocratic dictators. Same way people attribute billions to Xi Jinping’s net worth because of his role at the helm of the CPC

Fidel was an illegitimate son born to a maid of the household thougj

You’re actually right

https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surprises-about-castros-extravagant-life/?sh=80439db6d769#:~:text=Cuba's%20revolution%20leader%20wasn't,socialist%20rationing%20for%20one%20person.

Forbes was among the first to place that net worth on Castro, and they counted his childhood home (once again, his mom was a house maid and his dad ignored him) and state industries for that wealth

if you genuinely think Fidel Castro was worth 1 billion dollars I don’t know what to tell you

theres a bit of politricks involved in my response but yeah we just mentioned it in the commie discord that NEP allowed for the creation of people who took advantage of capitalistic policies of the late 20s and then it would result in these people acquiring political presence within the party. this would also introduce a very vast network of middle management looking to get a slice of whatever resources were coming through them

my thoughts on that is first of all, the purges were publicly supported and taken further exactly because of that happening. people really were expunging their managers for corruption, same way they did to thieves etc. from my own perspective I just think of it as the outcome of a political system allowing privileges for people aligning with it. socialist formations are not immune to that, and I believe that Mao was taking note of that happening in the USSR to then ensure it doesn't happen the same in communist China some years later

is it kinda f***ed -- yes, but the disparagement wasn't as apparent as it is apparent today under capitalism for example. way I see just how much a handful of people has in their possession over general populace it leaves me thinking 'maybe one more dacha isnt as bad in comparison..' but thats just my opinion. to me its a moral judgement when in reality people will be on the lookout for themselves for quite a while even, and dare I say especially, under a new mode of production and that doesn't seem too contradictory to me

ah aite. I dont remember much from Fidels personal life other than him f***ing mad hoes and wearing two Rollies on one hand (the only important things to know about Fidel)

Invented the euro step too

bro was only second to Lenin in his power to bend the history according to his will (making his patchy ass beard so iconic)

a non sarcastic response that doesn't ignore reality thank you

Makes a lot of sense and I can see how parts of the population would support the purges in that scenario.

@americana this is random but do you need an И for your name by any chance? I can freak it in all cyrilics so it looks consistent too if u want

Site won’t let me put it in my display name u feel

Yeah I just read up on it and I believe Castro. Forbes is hot trash. But then at the same time, what about his granddaughter buying a mansion? There’s obviously SOME wealth there

Russophobia at an all-time high

No cap

The mansion was owned by a Chilean businessman who was an associate to the party, who was then expelled in 2010. It was then leased to AirBnB which she used to rent it for a year or so, and it seems she’s purchased it after

Doesn’t seem so extra against of a story

“The cinema is for us the most important of the arts"

• Lenin
  

I know it is hilarious and easy to roast, but at the same time it's better than thinking you know a country from the way Hollywood portrays it (and I can't afford to travel everywhere I wanna experience). The films and docs are the closest you can get to really experiencing historical moments in time for a country and you can learn a lot from studying the artistic freedoms allowed.

I will get cooked for this but I believe it's the job of the artist to convey the truth, especially when you can't get it from your government. In the 20s, when USSR was objectively not a dictatorship, they were cranking out around 130 films per year which helped spread socialism all over the world with things like Strike! And Potemkin. Naturally, everybody had their own definition of socialism so the party relied on filmmakers own fervent feeling about socialism to crank them out while they slowly wrestled control of the new government, but eventually the Bolsheviks wanted artistically worthwhile, commercially successful and politically correct films (unrealistic) so 130 a year trickled down to 35 films per year by 1933 as Stalin tightened his grip on the industry (in addition to banning all imported films) and anybody that didn't toe the line was gonna fking regret it. Just a microcosm of what was happening everywhere and it definitely did not help their cause at all. They CC themselves saw how barren Soviet culture had become as a result, and worried that "films no longer served the agitational needs of the party" and backpedaled on the previous position of only making politically correct masterpieces. Even as early as '52, Malenkov was devoting speeches to address the problem which is why we started to get actual interesting cinema from the USSR again after the thaw but it would never reach the heights of the 20s again.

If yall were wondering what kinda communist I am, this is who I uphold:

s4a

you weren't in the purge trenches

Commit to the ideology of flexing on these hoes

U can't put a price on the euro-step king

I do crank some Victor and flex on them

man brought up Ford