The early period of the Castro regime, which took power sixty years ago, improved social provision and living standards for the poorest in Cuba, but Increasingly while also suppressing independent trade unions and political pluralism.
For most of the 20th century, the common image of "socialism" was the USSR and the other states modelled on it, China, Cuba, and so on.
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