Cuba, have we really done any better than them?

[sasguru]

I did study in Uni here

No you didn't. You studied in what was known as a polytechnic only 15 years ago (till they were renamed) - and a crap one at that.
The polytechnics were designed to take the weaker students, the ones who nearly failed their A-levels - and in your case they seem to have succeeded in their aim.

[Mich the Tester]

No you didn't. You studied in what was known as a polytechnic only 15 years ago (till they were renamed) - and a crap one at that.
The polytechnics were designed to take the weaker students, the ones who nearly failed their A-levels - and in your case they seem to have succeeded in their aim.

They changed the names of the polytechnics just as some of them were starting to get a good reputation. Strange move.

[Purple Dalek]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-clothes.html

[sasguru]

They changed the names of the polytechnics just as some of them were starting to get a good reputation..

One or two, yes. Certainly not Wolverhampton which I believe is the bottom tier of the bottom tier

[sasguru]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-clothes.html

Off topic but utterly disgraceful mad

[M_B]

It's a pretty reasonable desire not to have communist run regimes that could host nuclear missiles nearby provided by unfriendly USSR/Russia.

Cuba doesn't have nuclear weapons on its soil.

The only time they did have nuclear weapons was because

1: The CIA operated a terrorist campaign against Cuba (and still does).
2: The Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Turkey within range (16 mins according to Wiki) of Moscow.

These 2 events happened before Russia deployed weapons to Cuba and were the causes for it.

[AtW]

Cuba doesn't have nuclear weapons on its soil.

The only time they did have nuclear weapons was because

1: The CIA operated a terrorist campaign against Cuba (and still does).
2: The Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Turkey within range (16 mins according to Wiki) of Moscow.

These 2 events happened before Russia deployed weapons to Cuba and were the causes for it.

Cuba does not have nukes there only because of USA strong action - they tried to get them there but thankfully failed.

The USA were not run by crazy idiot who was using his shoe in UN - he also publicly said words to the effect that basically USA will get it (implying nukes) - all and other things such as crimes against humanity committed by Soviet Union makes actions by other countries designed for self defence against crazy Soviet regime justifiable, where as actions of the crazy regime ain't.

CIA does not run terrorist campaign against Cuba for a long time - you should check out what USSR was doing at the time in Vietan, Korea, Latin America etc.

What Soviet lovers really deserve is to get a few years in GULAG, or some uranium mines there - if you manage there a few years and still support USSR, then I'd listen to your words, until then you are just an idiot who has no clue what USSR really was (not far from nazies at all).

[minestrone]

Shocking human rights, internet mostly banned, health care was massively funded by the USSR but is going down hill quickly, prostitution is totally rife. everyone has to grow food themselves because there is not enough to go round and once Europe does not have enough money to fly there for holidays they will be buggered.

And of course when did you see a Cuban on holiday in the west?

[AtW]

2: The Americans deployed nuclear weapons in Turkey within range (16 mins according to Wiki) of Moscow.

Oh, one more thing - did the USA lie about placing tactical nukes in Turkey? USSR certainly denied they were placing those in Cuba - it took satellite photoes and other stuff to prove to the world that USSR was lieing about it.

Turkey was a member of NATO anyway.

[gingerjedi]

Shocking human rights, internet mostly banned, health care was massively funded by the USSR but is going down hill quickly, prostitution is totally rife. everyone has to grow food themselves because there is not enough to go round and once Europe does not have enough money to fly there for holidays they will be buggered.

And of course when did you see a Cuban on holiday in the west?

The most shocking human rights abuses on Cuban soil are committed by American soldiers and the CIA.