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In 1994, Fidel Castro's government did something no Marxist textbook prepared anyone for. It legalized the U.S. dollar, the currency of the imperialist enemy, and built a parallel money around it called the convertible peso, or CUC. Cubans now lived under two currencies: the worthless national peso (CUP) they earned in state wages, and the CUC they actually needed to buy anything worth having. A doctor pulling 20 CUP a month and a taxi driver pocketing CUC tips occupied two different economic universes. You can guess who ate better.
Think about what a dual-currency system confesses. A government that claims to abolish markets and prices still cannot escape the fact that its own money is garbage. The CUP did not buy soap, beef, or working appliances at any reliable rate, so the regime created a second money pegged to the dollar to capture the tourist trade and remittances from Miami. The state needed hard money it could not print at will. Socialist planners cannot calculate without real prices: this is the discipline Mises described in 1920.
You cannot run an economy on slogans. You run it on prices, and prices require honest money and private property. Castro abolished both and then spent decades quietly importing the dollar's price signals through the back door because his planners were flying blind. The CUC was a parasite feeding on Federal Reserve credibility, which tells you the planned economy could not generate a unit of account anyone trusted.
The system limped on until 2021, when the government finally killed the CUC under the "Tarea Ordenamiento" unification. The result was instant. Inflation tore through the island, the black-market dollar exchange rate exploded past 300 CUP, and shelves emptied while the state printed pesos to cover its deficits. Unification removed the borrowed crutch and let the patient collapse.
Cuba spent 27 years admitting that a worker's salary was a fiction and that survival depended on touching the enemy's money. Socialism filed its own bankruptcy paperwork in two denominations.
Most of the West was wrong about Russia.
You should have listened to voices coming from PolandâŠ
There is one other thing most of the West doesnât understand:
Communism.
Many in the West think it is just about the abolition of private property.
It isnât.
That is just one of its visible consequences.
Most in the west do not realize the perniciousness of communism â again, you should listen to those who experienced it first hand and try to understand it on a deeper level:
Communism is about distorting reality through lies, propaganda, and the systematic corruption of truth.
It is about demoralizing both individuals and entire societies â and this is done using the most insidious means: pitting people against each other, inciting resentment and hatred, and practicing negative selection â the systematic promoting of the least honest, most corrupt and most immoral to positions of influence and power.
It is about destroying nations from within.
Ultimately, it is about the concentration of absolute power.
Communism is a cancer on every society that it touches.
A hostile civilizational force â an enemy civilization in fact â destroying people, nations and all the value-creating and life-enhancing structures in between.
And post-communism is almost just as bad â keeping most of the original habits and pathologies under a veneer of liesâŠ
For over 250 years the Catholic faith in Japan survived without priests, churches, or the Mass. From the persecutions beginning in 1614 until the 19th century, the Kakure Kirishitan (âHidden Christiansâ) preserved the faith across seven generations. They baptised their children, taught the creed, honoured Our Lady, and prayed together in secret. When missionaries finally returned, they discovered whole villages still Catholic. It became known as the âMiracle of the Orient.â What sustained them? Well, we know it wasn't institutions, buildings, or even visibility. Faith, memory, family, and the quiet confidence that Christ had not abandoned His Church. Many Catholics today feel we are living through a moment of confusion and trial in the Church. But history reminds us: the faith has survived far worse. Christ did not promise comfort. He promised fidelity. âWhere two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.â (Matthew 18:20) The Church has endured persecution, exile, corruption, and collapse before. She endures because Christ remains with His people, even in the darkest hours. The Japanese Christians prove it.