Bernie Sanders Calls Criticism of Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba 'Unfair': Here's a List of Atrocities That Tell a Different Story

Dan Andros : Feb 25, 2020
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"Fidel Castro jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Fidel Castro shattered—through mass-executions, mass-jailings, mass larceny, and exile—virtually every family on the island of Cuba..." -Humberto Fontov

[Faithwire.com] Democratic Presidential Primary candidate Bernie Sanders, an unashamed socialist, has lept into the pole position after a big win in the Nevada Caucus. Sanders was grilled by CNN's Anderson Cooper about a number of issues, namely past comments praising Fidel Castro. (Image: via Daily Truth Report)

Instead of backtracking the comments, which eerily mirrored communist propaganda, Sanders chose to double down and say things weren't all bad:

"It's unfair to simply say everything is bad," Sanders complained. "When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did it?"

Cooper quickly interjected and said "a lot of dissidents in prison" weren't big fans of Castro simply because he had a literacy program.

Humberto Fontova wrote a piece for Faithwire shortly after Castro's death in November 2016 after an alarming number of people were praising the murderous dictator and sugar coating his legacy. Fontova detailed a number of horrific atrocities Castro perpetrated during his time in power... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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