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| Mar-29-04 | | iron maiden: According to Frank Brady's biography of Bobby Fischer, Castro was a rather keen player, studying the best games of both Fischer and Capablanca. |
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| Apr-20-04 | | Lawrence: Photo of Bobby vs. Fidel-- http://www.chesscafe.com/gallery/im... |
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| Apr-20-04 | | HailM0rphy: 1966 wow I didn't know castro was that old. And why am i not suprised Bobby Fischer playing with a foreign dictator. He was young here anyway..But
if you got the chance to play with somebody that known would you? |
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| Apr-20-04 | | MoonlitKnight: You didn't realize Castro was that old?? He has been El Presidente since the 50s! |
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| Apr-21-04 | | HailM0rphy: :O Seriously? Wow history lesson for me.. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | acirce: He is also not a "dictator", but elected indirectly by the national assembly chosen by the Cuban people in free election, just like in many other democratic countries. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | Gypsy: Of course, only the finest democracies like North Korea or now defunct Caucescu's Romenia come to mind ... |
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| Apr-21-04 | | acirce: Ceausescu was hardly a democrat. A bureaucrat living in luxury and having no contact with the people. But that is nowhere near Castro and Cuba. You can't just lump "those communist countries" together as if they are/were all the same. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | Gypsy: <You can't just lump "those communist countries" together as if they are/were all the same.> I know, but its just that their labor camps felt awfully alike. We must both function in different circles, I guess. So, while you apparently study the fine points of people-democratic governing, I was destined to explore their labor camps. And---on the second thought---I have to grant you that the happy tunes we had to sing there were often different... Some were the same; and some were different. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | ToTheDeath: Castro not a dictator... I'm sure the tens of thousands who have met watery graves fleeing his rule would have a rather different opinion. As would the dissidents and homosexuals sent to concentration camps, no doubt. Anyone who desires a real portrait of Castro's Cuba should try reading Contra Toda Esperanza (Against All Hope), por Armando Valladares. Or you can just listen to ignorant Europeans who worship at his feet. LOL. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | ToTheDeath: When were you in a labor camp, Gypsy? Please tell us more about that if you don't mind speaking on it. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | acirce: Do people really believe, and uncritically at that, a former Batista police man who was arrested for planning terrorist attacks, as a _credible witness_?! My God. |
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| Apr-21-04 | | Kaspablanca: Castro is a world idol. It´s something like the NY Yankees. Very hated, very loved. |
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| Apr-22-04 | | Gypsy: <When were you in a labor camp, Gypsy?> About three years between my ages of 15 and 18. Apparently, I needed to fortify my character through the purification processes of manual labor. I also had to atone for the sins of my family (or tribe if you will). Nothing major, just had to move a lot of dirt and survive one coal-dust explosion in a cogeneration plant. We weren't even interned, at least, not all the time. Small potatoes compared to older members of our tribe. They served dictators in places like Mauthausen (terminal), ammunition factories of Adamov and Kurim, uranium mines of Jachymov (terminal), rebuilding efforts in Warsaw... Our dictators came in two collors, brown and red; I experienced only the latter type. |
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| Apr-22-04 | | Gypsy: <Do people really believe, and uncritically at that, a former Batista police man who was arrested for planning terrorist attacks, as a _credible witness_?! My God.> I recall that the men who originally made such arguments famous called themselves Sophists. |
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| Apr-30-04 | | Lawrence: Fidel didn't play at the great "simultaneo" this year. |
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| May-08-04 | | Marnoff Mirlony: Castro is a great man. He has ruled Cuba for such a long time. |
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| May-10-04 | | aragorn69: There are always two sides to the coin, aren't there ? <Gypsy> OK, Fidel is a dictator. But could you be a bit more specific about the labour camp you claim to have been submitted to in Cuba. And wouldn't you agree that, right now, the worst camp in Cuba is at Guantanamo ?! |
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| May-10-04 | | Whitehat1963: <Marnoff Mirlony>, what is your definition of a great man? Does Stalin qualify? How about Hitler? Saddam Hussein? What is it that qualifies Castro for greatness? What are his great accomplishments? Is one of them that millions have fled his country using any means at their disposal including surfboards and innertubes? |
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| May-10-04 | | acirce: I won't post long papers here, but the accomplishments of the Cuban people under the leadership of Castro are great. You just have to compare Cuba to most other Latin American countries when it comes to health, education, security, the eradication of homelessness and analfabetism, the great strides towards gender equality, the almost unique popular democratic system, the voice in the world against imperialism and war etc etc etc. Many well-fed people fled the country during the first revolutionary years, just as happens everywhere in similar situations and you get a distinct polarization of the population, just look at the French Revolution and many other examples. |
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| May-10-04 | | Whitehat1963: <acirce>, excuse me, did you use the words "popular democratic system" in reference to Cuba? Did you actually say "well-fed people" were the only ones to flee? Give me a huge break. I have relatives who still live there. Go sell your fiction to Simon & Schuster or Random House. Castro is a billionaire dictator living off of the slave labor of the Cuban people. If he opened the doors to everyone, and everyone knew they could leave and be accepted ANYWHERE else, they would leave in a minute. They still try to leave on rafts, surfboards, innertubes, by any means necessary. Some of Castro's own relatives have left Cuba and denounced him. So go sell your Marxist ideas to someone else. I'm not buying. |
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| May-10-04 | | Cerebrate2006: alright, no bashing of communisim here, just because Man can not handle it doesnt mean it is a great idea. Castro isnt overly bad if the people who stay love him, and you cant really overly blame him for cuba's economic suffering, it is better off than many other Latin American Countries (not saying its a top place to live in the world) |
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| May-10-04 | | Gypsy: Fortunately, <aragorn69>, I never been to a labor camp in Cuba. I am happy to keep it that way. I'v done my time in a completely different part of the world and I intend to never repeat that. You want to do some exploration of your own? Go right ahead. We can swap stories when you are done. |
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| May-10-04 | | Gypsy: <Many well-fed people fled...> How inconsiderate of them. Maybe being well-fed is the primary concern when you talk about life-stock. People, I believe, have a fundamental need to be free. |
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