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…’An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,’ she said. ‘One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women. I gave them out and heard a scream from those who had eaten them. They were all screaming and vomiting blood. All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes they were quite dead.’
…I find myself wondering if Hoeryong will someday have the same sort of name recognition of Auschwitz.
No. Auschwitz was done by Nazis. These death camps are run by communists. Our domestic leftists who are disproportionately present in our intelligentsia will never let their allies – foreign communists – stand exposed for their crimes. They will always cover for them, and downplay the severity.
On the Arlington list I once argued with a town employee ( a school teacher ) about Cuba. She defended the jailing of pro-democracy political prisoners in Cuba. It was necessary to defend The Revolution which had, after all, helped make everyone more equal, and had given healthcare to all.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:16 am
The Revolution which had, after all, helped make everyone more equal, and had given healthcare to all.
I may retch. Our local NPR affiliate had a pair of mugs on who were extolling the virtues of the Cuban health care system.
It led off with audio from Jimmy Carter, to get us in the right frame of mind.
They yacked along. Exporting health care to the third world. Everyone has a neighborhood clinic, the doctor and the nurse (singular) live upstairs. You can go see them anytime you like! And so on.
They took two callers. The first was a guy who pointed out something that the guests were glossing over – what the Cuban system did well was public health and not medicine. So – sanitary sewers, vaccinated children are areas of excellence. Open heart surgery, not so much.
The second was the duaghter of Cuban refugees. Who is a doctor in rural Wisconsin. Who pointed out that her life-long dream was to be a doc, and had her parents not had the foresight to flee she’d be chopping sugar cane for a living. Why? Because if your family disagrees with the regime you don’t get the state provided goodies like ‘education’ or ‘a good job’.