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Fifty years ago, a dictator was ousted and socialism began to took root in Cuba. How do Cubans who supported the revolution then feel about it now? And how have Cubans coped with hardships brought on by, among other things, the USSR's collapse? Robert Arellano's novel Havana Lunar is about a young, idealistic Cuban doctor. David Strug has studied older Cubans' understandings of the revolution.
Although I enjoyed this episode, I would be interested if you would explore the attitudes of young Cubans (those born after Cuban boatlift in 1981) about their experiences of the Cuban revolution. Even more interesting, you could compare the attitudes of young Cubans to young Iranians, to understand how and under what circumstances support for revolutionary values are transferred from one generation to the next. Investigating the attitudes of old people about young people (like you did towards the end of this program) doesn't do it for me. Its much better to listen to the voices of young people directly.
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