Remember how the liberals always considered Cuba to be the perfect socialist utopia?

[JGalt]

And how they marveled at the Cuban medical system where everyone got free healthcare? And how brave Che Guevara was, fighting those evil South American fascist dictators, and how those liberals proudly walked around sporting a shirt with Che's picture on it? And how we should reopen relations with them so they could vacation there and smoke Cuban cigars?

Apparently Cuba is not the island paradise the left believed it was. Why else would Cubans move to Russia and be offered Russian citizenship if they fight for the Russian army in Ukraine?

Cuban immigrants join Moscow’s fighting forces in Ukraine after Putin signs bill granting citizenship​

"Cuban immigrants living in Russia have reportedly joined Moscow’s fight in Ukraine after President Vladamir Putin signed a bill granting citizenship to anyone who enlists in the army.

“Several Cubans” were taken Wednesday to the area of the “special military operation,” which is how Russia refers to the war, after signing year-long contracts to join the army, the Ryazan Gazette, a local news outlet in the Ryazan region of central Russia, reported.

The Cubans and others who signed fighting contracts will receive a one-time payment from Russia’s federal government equivalent to $2,433 and another $2,500 from Ryzan’s regional budges, according to the local report.

They will also reportedly receive a monthly salary of $2,545.

The deployment of Cuban immigrants in Ukraine comes after an announcement last week that Belarus was considering training Cuban military personnel."

Cuban immigrants join Moscow’s fighting forces in Ukraine after Putin signs bill granting citizenship

 

[shockedcanadian]

And how they marveled at the Cuban medical system where everyone got free healthcare? And how brave Che Guevara was, fighting those evil South American fascist dictators, and how those liberals proudly walked around sporting a shirt with Che's picture on it? And how we should reopen relations with them so they could vacation there and smoke Cuban cigars?

Apparently Cuba is not the island paradise the left believed it was. Why else would Cubans move to Russia and be offered Russian citizenship if they fight for the Russian army in Ukraine?

Cuban immigrants join Moscow’s fighting forces in Ukraine after Putin signs bill granting citizenship​

"Cuban immigrants living in Russia have reportedly joined Moscow’s fight in Ukraine after President Vladamir Putin signed a bill granting citizenship to anyone who enlists in the army.

“Several Cubans” were taken Wednesday to the area of the “special military operation,” which is how Russia refers to the war, after signing year-long contracts to join the army, the Ryazan Gazette, a local news outlet in the Ryazan region of central Russia, reported.

The Cubans and others who signed fighting contracts will receive a one-time payment from Russia’s federal government equivalent to $2,433 and another $2,500 from Ryzan’s regional budges, according to the local report.

They will also reportedly receive a monthly salary of $2,545.

The deployment of Cuban immigrants in Ukraine comes after an announcement last week that Belarus was considering training Cuban military personnel."

Cuban immigrants join Moscow’s fighting forces in Ukraine after Putin signs bill granting citizenship

For the poorest people in Cuba this is a great deal. Many people find opportunity elsewhere when they leave their country, I should have left for the U.S 23 years ago when the offer arose. I am sure Cuba is no socialist paradise though...

 

[BULLDOG]

What idiot told you that liberals considered Cuba to be the perfect socialist utopia? Come on. Now is your chance to really expose that person.

 

[Moonglow]

No, I don't remember Cuba as any inspiration.

 

[DudleySmith]

Cubans have been going overseas as mercenaries since their Revolution. Africa was a common destination for a couple of decades, then Nicaragua, Syria, Ethiopia, and Algeria, Yemen. They served Syria in the Yom Kippur War.