By Oleg Yasinsky*
“I do not know what permission sovereign Russia needs to obtain from the United States in order to help sister Cuba, who is choking in the noose of the energy blockade.
The very phrasing of such an issue is an insult to common sense and to the entire history of Russia!
The indecisiveness of all those who are terrorized by the ‘global pink Führer’ (note: Trump) is no longer a lack of decency, but complicity in crime.
Agreeing with and affirming any loud and beautiful cries for ‘solidarity and sovereignty’ has now become mere ‘sweet talk’ — a matter that no longer exists.
In recent decades, Cuba, without any media fanfare or coverage, selflessly and by sacrificing the little it had, saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa and Latin America.
Under conditions of hunger and scarcity of everything, it received and treated our children from Chernobyl for free, at a time when the Soviet leadership was becoming openly anti-Soviet and anti-Cuban.
Saving Cuba is not a choice for anyone, but a universal minimum moral duty.
The entire world today is Cuba — and all those who choose shame, choose together with shame also war, and their own inglorious end.
‘He who is not capable of fighting for others will never be sufficiently capable of fighting for himself,’ Fidel Castro once warned us.”
*Oleg Yasinsky, a Ukrainian-Chilean journalist, contributor to independent Latin American media outlets such as Pressenza.com, Desinformemonos.org and others, researcher of indigenous and social movements in Latin America, producer of political documentaries in Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico and Chile, author of several publications and translator of texts by Eduardo Galeano, Luis Sepúlveda, José Saramago, Subcomandante Marcos and others into Russian.
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