Today’s Word Is Symbolism

Elderly Guadalcanal veteran seeks same:
https://m.facebook.com/SaugertiesAmLePo72/posts/1702779786423749

On my last visit to Cuba, I was struck by all the graffiti I saw everywhere.
Not that it makes too much difference, but now that the Castro regime is moved/moving on and I presume by possibly next winter Raul will be either dead or irrelevant, hoping one or the other anyway, I’m thinking of traveling to Cuba then. I have this perverse desire, at least just once more before I die, to have the freedom to drink a beer, smoke a cigar, and watch a live baseball game. I understand this is still possible? In Cuba? Yes?

I understand this is still possible? In Cuba? Yes?
Oh, hell yes.
Cuba is a fascinating case study, in that 80+% of the island’s economy comes from tourism and they’re trying like hell to make the place look and feel like other Caribbean resort destinations. It’s when the curtain drops momentarily and you see the iron fist within the velvet glove that’s so illuminating.
If you do go, make sure you bring someone who speaks Spanish. Unlike most other Caribbean islands, you are safe as houses off the resort and dealing directly with the locals will save you a bundle. That said, certain nationalities (Canadian, most former Soviet satellites) are seen as Friends of Cuba, but the indoctrination runs deep. I would be careful about letting on you’re from the US. Practice your ‘aboots’.

Sam, I am currently doing a tour of Eastern Europe. Communist propaganda is a personal interest.
Workers were shown smiling. Soldiers and partisans were uniformly grim faced.
It depends whether the portrayed person is looking at the future or dealing with the past.
What got me in Bulgaria was the chutzpah of the regime to complain about the previous regime’s oppression.
The kingdom did execute particularly stubborn opponents and did close down political groups. But at about one-hundredth the rate, and reluctantly rather than stated policy.
So it is with white and male privilege. They exist, for sure, but not as policy and not with the grimness depicted. Meanwhile the solution, while shown as a bright and positive future, will be 100 times worse.

welcome to the Small Appliance Alliance
Glad to be aboard. I hope there’ll be dips?

Pogonip,
Veterans please pass the word about the elderly gent; he wants to talk to another survivor and, since he’s 96, if there IS another survivor the quicker we find him the better.
I just clicked on your FB link, and it appears a couple have responded (or someone that knows one) and they appear willing, and more importantly, able to pay their fellow veteran a visit.
For whatever reason, I find this especially heartwarming.