Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video is a summary of the history, political system and economy of the Republic of Cuba.
Thanks to adoray for the spanish subtitles
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The song in the outro was produced by 08 (who gave me no way to credit them), you can listen to the whole remix on my second channel: youtu.be/jZOrMsIOZh0
Stop telling me my sources are bad without telling me what about them is wrong.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Cuba
anywhere.com/cuba/travel-guide/government-and-economy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_State_(Cuba)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_of_People%27s_Power
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Cuba
http://www.granma.cu/granmad/secciones/elecciones/112.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
havanatimes.org/opinion/the-state-of-housing-in-cuba
reimaginerpe.org/19-1/hamberg#main-content
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_peso
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism
Transcript:
Hello everybody. Recently I explained both the USSR and the PRC and the most common request I got was to explain modern day Cuba. Closely followed by requests to explain North Korea, tell me in the comments how badly you want that.
That being said, we will go over the history of Cuba, the way the government works and the way the economy is structured. Cuba is one of the few nations left which calls itself communist, so we are going to see some ways they tried to implement socialist praxis in the way they run their state.
Oh, also apparently this video already exists, but I decided to still finish this one. For one because I already spent half a week on it when I noticed and also because that video is mainly economic, which is fine no video covers everything. What I am saying is my video can add something to the conversation by talking about Cuban history and politics and not just mentioning the same things in the same order.
The written history of Cuba starts when a guy called Christopher Columbus arrives at the island in 1492. Of course there were 300 thousand people already living in the island, as they had for 4600 years before that but we only know broad things about them. Because the Spanish murdered them all.
Sometimes deliberately in war and sometimes accidentally with disease, and sometimes on purpose with desease. Cuba was then considered a Spanish colonial province. In this period a lot of white people settled on the island. And because this is in the Atlantic during the time of the Atlantic slave trade a lot of African people were kidnapped and used as slaves on the island.
A lot of white people and native people also fell in love and had mixed race children. All this combined to form cuba’s modern racial makeup with about 10% of the population being black, 25% being mulato which is a local term for mixed race people and around 65% white people.
Cuba remained a Spanish colony until America decided to blame Spain for an accidental explosion of one of their ships. After this war between the spanish and the americans, appropriately titled the Spanish-american war, cuba and the Philippines were seized by the USA, at this point the US took a bay called “Guantanamo” from Cuba. Officially to defend Cuba’s independence.
Cuba was occupied by the US government until 1902. The government was a partially democratic rule of the bourgeoisie, eventually this guy came to power, and he suspended the elections and then this guy, working with this guy started a revolution and overthrew that government. This was in 1959. And will you look at that, it’s the cold war now. And oh no, the revolutionaries were communists while the USA right next door is capitalist.
As we all know freedom and democracy is when you overthrow socialist governments in Latin America. And Cuba is one of those. So, in addition to the CIA trying to assassinate Castro they also launched the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Which was a military attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.
This video is a summary of the history, political system and economy of the Republic of Cuba.
Thanks to adoray for the spanish subtitles
Patreon: patreon.com/viki1999
Subreddit: reddit.com/r/viki1999
Twitter: twitter.com/Viki1999Yt
E-Mail Address: viki1999mail@gmail.com
The song in the outro was produced by 08 (who gave me no way to credit them), you can listen to the whole remix on my second channel: youtu.be/jZOrMsIOZh0
Stop telling me my sources are bad without telling me what about them is wrong.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Cuba
anywhere.com/cuba/travel-guide/government-and-economy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_State_(Cuba)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_of_People%27s_Power
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Cuba
http://www.granma.cu/granmad/secciones/elecciones/112.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
havanatimes.org/opinion/the-state-of-housing-in-cuba
reimaginerpe.org/19-1/hamberg#main-content
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_Cuba
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_peso
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism
Transcript:
Hello everybody. Recently I explained both the USSR and the PRC and the most common request I got was to explain modern day Cuba. Closely followed by requests to explain North Korea, tell me in the comments how badly you want that.
That being said, we will go over the history of Cuba, the way the government works and the way the economy is structured. Cuba is one of the few nations left which calls itself communist, so we are going to see some ways they tried to implement socialist praxis in the way they run their state.
Oh, also apparently this video already exists, but I decided to still finish this one. For one because I already spent half a week on it when I noticed and also because that video is mainly economic, which is fine no video covers everything. What I am saying is my video can add something to the conversation by talking about Cuban history and politics and not just mentioning the same things in the same order.
The written history of Cuba starts when a guy called Christopher Columbus arrives at the island in 1492. Of course there were 300 thousand people already living in the island, as they had for 4600 years before that but we only know broad things about them. Because the Spanish murdered them all.
Sometimes deliberately in war and sometimes accidentally with disease, and sometimes on purpose with desease. Cuba was then considered a Spanish colonial province. In this period a lot of white people settled on the island. And because this is in the Atlantic during the time of the Atlantic slave trade a lot of African people were kidnapped and used as slaves on the island.
A lot of white people and native people also fell in love and had mixed race children. All this combined to form cuba’s modern racial makeup with about 10% of the population being black, 25% being mulato which is a local term for mixed race people and around 65% white people.
Cuba remained a Spanish colony until America decided to blame Spain for an accidental explosion of one of their ships. After this war between the spanish and the americans, appropriately titled the Spanish-american war, cuba and the Philippines were seized by the USA, at this point the US took a bay called “Guantanamo” from Cuba. Officially to defend Cuba’s independence.
Cuba was occupied by the US government until 1902. The government was a partially democratic rule of the bourgeoisie, eventually this guy came to power, and he suspended the elections and then this guy, working with this guy started a revolution and overthrew that government. This was in 1959. And will you look at that, it’s the cold war now. And oh no, the revolutionaries were communists while the USA right next door is capitalist.
As we all know freedom and democracy is when you overthrow socialist governments in Latin America. And Cuba is one of those. So, in addition to the CIA trying to assassinate Castro they also launched the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Which was a military attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.
![Watching a funny libertarian rant [Reply to Scotty M] (he has since deleted the vid. Read desc.)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ARcQxpojjxc/mqdefault.jpg "Watching a funny libertarian rant [Reply to Scotty M] (he has since deleted the vid. Read desc.)
PLEASE NOTE: He took down the video I am replying to without explanation, one possibility is that he was getting harassed by people from this video. I oppose that. I considered taking my video down. After all my channel is now close to 3 times the size of his channel (unlike when I uploaded this, at that time his channel was bigger) and I dont want to lead a hate mob against a smaller channel. But on the other hand I came to the conclusion that it is my right to reply to a video about him and the fact that his channel is small should not be a reason for me to remove my criticism. Because of this I held a YT community post to decide and right now its 75% in favor of keeping this video up. This is why this video still exists despite the fact that the video I am replying to does not.
This video is a reply to Libertarian views scotty Ms video about me. He is replying to my last video in which he appeared. While he is pretending to reply to me all he actually does is rant about random topics for 30 minutes. Some of his topics include trumps covid comments, the starving time in 1607, the history of india as well as many other topics which are not related to my video. For the sake of speed I disregarded some of his argument in favor of focusing on the more credible ones.
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Links:
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820 Million people Lack the food to live a healthy life: htthttps://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1042411
9 Million Starve each year: https://www.creditdonkey.com/world-hunger-statistics.html
9 Million Starve each year2: https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/quick-facts-global-hunger
Transcript:
Hello everybody, one of my last videos was this one, it became my best received video so far, finally breaking the record set by my first video, long story. Anyway in that one I made fun of some silly libertarians including this one. Among other things I said that he must be reasonable and open to change his mind if he put his ideology into his username. And in the comment section he totally proved me right by going on a long rant about, well, everything.
I then told him that if he intends to make a video about me he should watch a few other of my videos so he wouldn’t repeat the same 5 old lies. Stuff like how socialism did not kill 100 million, that markets aren’t that efficient and that they are responsible for about 15 million deaths each year. He totally took that advice, I am sure. And he then made a 30 minute response video. So that’s what we are doing today, we are looking at his response to my video.
His video is quite long and if I made a full response it would take about 5 hours since videos take about 10 times their own runtime to be debunked. Because of this I will be ignoring some of the more generic arguments and only talk about actual interesting points and things that are so radicicolous that I had to show them to you. So, without further ado let’s get into it, shall we?
He starts of by showing the first few seconds of my video. This is the only time he shows anything from me which is kind of odd for a response video. The rest is kind of an unhinged rant. And there is one thing you might notice, he seems to be confused about my pronouns. And I should have addressed that earlier. I use she/her pronouns and I am not a boy either. I am a woman and I have always been one. I know it’s hard to believe because of the voice but that’s actually just because of a gene defect which causes my body to produce too much testosterone which then changed my voice. I recognise the confusion but from now on you know.
Anyway, his video starts off with explaining that socialism and collectivism are synonyms. And he further explains that I was using the wrong definition of socialism in my video. He then shows us his definition of socialism. Okay so this says. ”Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”
While I said. “Socialism is worker or community control over the means of production, like a factory which democratically decides how to operate” the only difference I can see is that I didn’t explicitly mention the state. Because if someone considers the state an extension of the community then to them state control is community control. So he says I am making up my own definition while showing my definition on screen. Okay then.")
