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lehamsy said:

Really dude? That's what you think of Latin America. That's a cheap answer. Do you know who Pinochet, Stroessner, Videla, Rodriguez Lara, and so on, are? They are all dictadors, maybe you should investigate which country financed their coups just to stop communism in the region. You should investigate which country supported their regimes eventhough all of them killed thousands of innocent people. Which country forced neoliberalism as an economic system to the region and destroyed the economies of many countries. Which country took advantage of these puppet leaders to send euro-american companies to take possession of the region's resources. God, in Bolivia they even privatized rainwater. In my country, Ecuador, they started to extract oil, but then we returned to democracy, and when the president Jaime Roldós tried to nationalize oil, they killed him. During the entire XX century they used military force to invade countries and to  establish of military bases in the region. In my own country we had a military base until 2009. The World Bank forced our governments to modify our educational systems just to teach us since we were kids that we were poor, and that we couldn't do anything to take back our resources. 

I'm not saying that you lived in paradise with the Russian occupation, but the terrible things the US did to Latin America are way more complex to the simplistic point of view you have. The puppet leaders, the whole brainwash thing, and the other things Russia did to you, they are not so different from what the US did to us. 

I'm not gonna lie, I'm no expert in LA issues. I plan to catch up as I hope to go for a yearly scholarship to Colombia next year :) But what I can say is that you should be thankful for any help with stopping communism. Seriously. That is a massive and priceless gift and you shouldn't just look past it.

I see that LA vs. Poland is much different things - behind the curtain works in LA vs. open terror and genocides, killing for your beliefs, show trials and demonstration executions and true to the wire brainwashing. Different kinds of evil. The main difference between us, is that we have managed to free ourselves and whatever bad has happened to us in the last 25 years is all our own fault. Finally.