Communism should be remembered first and foremost for the death, brutality, and repression that occurred whenever that evil system was imposed upon a nation.
Dictators like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the North Korean Kim dynasty either killed more than Hitler, 
or butchered higher proportions of their populations.
But let’s not forget that communism also has an awful economic legacy. The economic breakdown of the Soviet Empire. The horrid deprivation in North Korea. The giant gap that existed between West Germany and East Germany. The mass poverty in China before partial liberalization.
Today, let’s focus on how communism has severely crippled the Cuban economy.
In a column for Reason a few years ago, Steven Chapman accurately summarized the problems in that long-suffering nation.
There may yet be admirers of Cuban communism in certain precincts of Berkeley or Cambridge, but it’s hard to find them in Havana. …the average Cuban makes…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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