According to witnesses, police divide those at the gym into citizens and non-citizens. Russians are taken to enlistment offices, where their military records are checked.
Non-citizens are accused of immigration violations and given a choice: deportation, or enlistment in the army, according to Current Time, an independent Russian news platform.
Hahahaha.
We invaded it during the Spanish-American war to “liberate” Cuba (remove competing colonial power from our neighborhood) and set up a permanent Naval base there “for their protection.” We then pushed them into an infinite contract for two thousand dollars a year. That price has since gone up: as of 1974 we have been giving then FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, a pittance that the post-revolutionary government of Cuba refuses out of principle.
It is stolen. Human Rights Violation Land isn’t the only purpose, it’s also to punish Cuba for ever daring to defy us.
Fuck. This. Country.
Cuba btw refuses to cash the cheques the US sends them. In my head canon Fidel used each and every one going over his desk as a cigar lighter.
Fun fact: It can be argued that the German Democratic Republic still lives on in the form of an Island gifted to them by Cuba. The island was not mentioned in the German unification treaty so the GDR still has territory, but Cuba argues that it was just a symbolic act, not actual gift, and the German foreign ministry concurs. But what about the foreign ministry of the GDR? They should at least be heard on this matter.