Communism has its own people 6 de enero 2005
By Ismael Sambra
ismaelsambra@nuevaprensalibre.com
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After being in contact with many communists for long years,
I have arrived to the conclusion that the communist system has its own people.
Having lived under such a government may have given one the right to speak
about it with more knowledge and authority than those who, having not experienced
it, contend that communism is good. Good for what, for whom? Here in Canada
such opinions are held by people who become "blind because they don't
want to see, deaf because they don't want to hear". Some of them feign
incredulity when faced with irrefutable facts, such as "preventive
executions by firing squad" and "exemplary imprisonments"
carried out by Castro's dictatorship against dissidents. Some are individuals
who fled a rightist dictatorship and believe that communism was the alternative.
Some write articles or teach classes in universities, trying to give credence
to a regime they have not lived under. These are the so-called left-wingers,
who at the moment of seeking political asylum, preferred to deliver themselves
to their hated capitalist monster's claws in the U.S. or Canada, instead
of the paradise offered by Cuba, the beloved standard-bearer of the socialist
revolution in the Americas. What a bunch of hypocrites!
All these strange, inconsistent characters may be placed under a common
denominator. Are they really fanatic communists or rather unprincipled opportunists?
I have even debated with some of them on TV shows or in the printed press
with the intention of communicating my own experiences and of providing
evidence of communism's appalling consequences. Far from showing any desire
of starting a dialogue, they became disrespectful, even aggressive. Are
these the supporters of fairness, of equalitarian wealth-sharing? Why do
they praise those who keep for themselves the lion's share while distributing
only misery to others? Most of them, being atheists, are unable to practice
the Christian doctrine of love and respect for others. They feed on intolerance,
on hatred, on envy, on coveting the property that others have earned through
hard work. Most perceive us as weaklings because we want to live in a democracy
and share its benefits even with them, who don't deserve it because they
want to use its freedoms for themselves only. In short, they want to destroy
democracy. Finally, they are not suited to the exchange of ideas, to a system
where we all, including minorities, have a dignified place. They are custom-made
for the aims of communism, perfectly suited to its totalitarian ways. Should
we allow such individuals to control the media and perhaps, some day, assume
total power?
Let's take it step by step: What is required for the making of a communist?
During my years as a student in Cuba, it was the shyest, the quietest student,
the one who communicated the least with others, in other words, the most
introverted one, who was considered a model youth and merited being selected
as the "communist youth". He would obviously be a good prospect
for the so-called "new man", who follows the rules and never questions
them. Although I received excellent marks I was never selected. How could
I be? I was restless, spoke too much, made jokes, argued and criticized.
In other words, I was extroverted. It never occurred to them that being
introverted is not a positive trait but rather a psychological dysfunction
that sometimes requires medical treatment. If encouraged enough, It may
even be dangerous because it isolates the individual and renders him a fertile
ground for low passions like hatred or envy that may end up unleashing suicide
or murder tendencies. No doubt the Communist Party, in order to enlarge
their clan, seeks those who hide their light, those who are always ready
to say yes.
I saw the same thing when working for Cuban television - after getting a
university degree, at the cost of renouncing my religious beliefs, since
otherwise I would not have been accepted. The "selected" ones
were the introverted, those who kept quiet, the "modest" ones
who stewed in their own feelings, the position climbers, the opportunists.
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To possess a membership "red card" was equivalent to owning the
goose with the golden eggs. It enabled its owner to get a job far above
his/her level of competence, with the result that all leadership positions
went to employees who, as a general rule and not with many exceptions, were
phlegmatic, slow, slippery, tricky, incapable, but their card certified
them as reliable "active communists". They were granted such privileges
because they belonged to the "master race". Were we witnessing
a revival of fascism?. This perversion of the system I have named "the
rule of mediocrity". No wonder that economic, political and social
disasters always follow communism. No wonder that the true blockade suffered
by the Cuban people, as we contend, originates from within, and not at all
from outside the country.
And now it happens that, in spite of the collapse of that ideology all over
the world, in spite of revelations about atrocities carried out in its name
and kept hidden for many years due to the lack of an independent press,
some make full use of our respect towards freedom of opinion in order to
promote "conferences" about the beneficial effects of communist
revolutions for the populations affected. These "conferences"
are also a tool to export terrorism to countries that have reached certain
prosperity and social stability. In this way, Aleida Guevara, the Che's
daughter, visited 16 Mexican cities in a rush tour propagandizing the Cuban
regime and demanding the freedom of five Cuban spies captured and convicted
in the U.S. Who pays for all this?
In desperation, after failing very badly in their repeated attempt to export
guerrillas and weapons, they have now orchestrated an ideological invasion,
paid for by the Cuban people. Latin America in now the target of this new
strategy. Vital to them is Venezuela, a country half-won over by deception
and massive electoral fraud. In a recent visit, Celia Hart, daughter of
Armando Hart, a former Culture Minister in Cuba, stated: "The only
way for Venezuela, as a nation, to free itself from imperialist oppression,
is to be led by the hand of the socialist revolution ... we are at the optimum
moment to intervene, organize and lead the continent to wherever we want"
and then accused her own comrades when she stated that "the communists
in Bolivia betrayed the Che". An unhappy statement made for the sole
purpose of protecting Fidel Castro, the real culprit of the Che's death.
It was Castro who failed to deliver the promised resources and abandoned
him in the Bolivian jungle! Witnesses to these events have attested to the
fact that at that time, the Che had become a hindrance to Fidel.
As we can see, communism not only has "its own people", but it
can easily exterminate them whenever they seem to cease being useful to
the party's interests. This happened in Stalin's Russia, and also happened
in Castro's Cuba when Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa was executed by firing squad. Communists
have no friends, no family, no brothers, no children. If their relatives
or friends are deemed to have become "traitors to the fatherland",
communists coldly accept their execution, because their doctrine is paramount.
There are countless instances of this behaviour. They have no heart, they
have rooted out any kind of compassion from their feelings.
At the time of the collapse of the Soviet system, during a conversation
with a communist, he said, referring to tank crews who had not carried out
the communist order to shoot at the demonstrators on the streets: "they
are contemptible, they should have shot at the people, it is their fault
that we lost everything". Since then I had serious doubts about his
friendship, but certain curiosity persisted in me about him, for I wanted
to know if he still retained any sort of humanity. I was greatly shaken
when I learnt that he had rejected the chance to visit his exiled children
and grandchildren. He said he wanted to stay in Cuba to defend it from the
American invasion, which the dictator had announced for a long time, after
trying to provoke it time and again. He willingly wasted the opportunity
to reunite with his family, something that many others so ardently desire!
Whom can they deceive, these wolves in sheep clothing? Whom do they try
to use, these improvised lecturers on terrorism? Certainly not people like
us, who love freedom and have learned something from last century history.
They target open societies where they can act with impunity and spread their
venom. And they can always find the gullible ones, those prone to become
addicted to the communist utopia like drug-addicts to narcotics. We can
see the results in recent revolts. They travel freely to the United States,
to Europe, to Canada, and there they seek people of their own, luckily very
few, but who can still do a lot of harm because of their use of violence.
And we allow it. While we nap in democracy, they look for its weak spots
and take full advantage of its freedoms to confuse the issues and export
their terrorism. We the weaklings -as they call us-, we the democratic ones,
tolerate them, perhaps trusting that no matter how far the lies run, the
truth will always catch up with them. However, none of us are allowed to
enter their countries, dominated by means of oppression. They do not allow
us in, because they are afraid of us. They are more afraid of words, of
freedom of expression, than of bombs. Not us. We are more afraid of bombs,
and they know that. Freedom of speech make us vulnerable, but it also makes
us stronger.
Ours is a very solid vision, very much inspired by José Martí's
ideas, against dictators of the right and against communist dictators. It
is consistent in its moral defence of democracy, and of capitalism, because
capitalism in the only system that so far, has been able to provide for
both the material and the spiritual needs of the people, because it is based
mainly on man's ideals of economic, political and social freedom. Anything
else is an enormous fraud concocted by these swindlers of people's conscience
who do not accept their failure.
Of course communism has it people! These are the people they call up to
form brigades - whether they are called "fast-action brigades"
or "Bolivar circles" - to divide, to spew their hatred, to practice
intolerance and violence against those who will not accept their terrorism.
Because, in Lenin's words "it is inconceivable to have a socialist
revolution without imposing terror". Under his leadership, people have
only two choices, to accept the system or to expect imprisonment, exile
or death. That is why those who rebel against these regimes are two-fold
heroes, because repression is two-fold destructive, physically and psychologically.
That is why, at this stage in history, after Castroist-Stalinist atrocities
have been made public, those who support or pretend to support the tyrant,
are hypocrites, shameless scoundrels, that is, they are tailor-made for
communism.
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