I want to offer historical and statistical data about how "backward" was Cuba until 1961, when Castro accepted (blackmail) Khrushchev and betrayed the revolution, sending the country into a dead end of communism. Betrayed, because the Revolution 1953-1959 period was neither socialist or anti-capitalist, and was of the people, against General Fulgencio Batista, the popularly elected president in 1940, but decided to illegally stay in power through a coup in 1952. From the first day came to power Castro Cubans understood that they had been deceived again. Castro was met in Havana January 2, 1959 as a national hero, but even the persecution began on January 3 (personal revenge Castro to his enemies), the rejection of the election and the fact that Cuba has turned into over the last 50 years. That is, Castro turned the country into something against what precisely was a revolution.
So. Here is the bare data on Cuba until 1959 (when it was the most developed in the Spanish-America, it went away after Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, not to mention other countries), and later, after the data - what is left of the island.
Since 1829 - the first country in Ibero-America (including Spain and Portugal), which begins to use ships in maritime transport.
1837 - the third country in the world (after the U.S. and Britain), which built the railway.
1847 - the first country in the Americas, which is emerging ether anesthesia during surgical operations.
1877 - the first country in the world, which demonstrates the use of electricity in industry.
1881 - Cuba solved the worst tropical disease of the time - yellow fever - and invented a medicine used to this day. Discoverer was a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay.
1889 - Cuba established the first in Ibero-America (including Spain and Portugal) and the second in the Americas, after the United States, public lighting.
Between 1825 and until independence in 1898, Cuba was the source of 60-75%of revenue%of Spanish treasury. In the Spanish-American War in 1902, after the invasion of Spain in Cuba, and the request of the Government of the island to the United States to protect the country, Spain is losing the war. United States under the terms of the peace treaty with Spain receives as compensation for Spain island of Puerto Rico, with pay all Spanish businessmen and traders who wish to leave with Cuba and Puerto Rico (wishing there was little), through the Spanish government, a total of 3,000,000 the then U.S. dollars.
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1900 - in Cuba there are the first in Latin America cars. First in America and Spain female driver was Cuban Rene Mendez Capote.
1900 - the first in Latin America, the Cuban Olympic champion was epee fencer Ramon Fonts.
1906 - Havana - the first city in the world, which is installed with direct dial (not a "lady-operator", and with disc telephones).
1907 - the first time in Havana in Latin America (including Spain) opens radiology department of medicine.
May 19, 1913 in Cuba made its first flight in Latin America on the plane. The first pilots were Cubans Agustin Parla and Domingo Rosilo. The flight lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes, between Havana and Cayo Ueso (Cayo Hueso) in Florida, USA.
From 1915 to 1959 - the Cuban peso (peso cubano) - the only currency in the world, which for 44 years has depreciated against the U.S. dollar by only 1 cent.
1918 - the first country in the Americas, including Spain and Portugal, razreshivashaya divorce.
Third world chess champion and the only 1921 to 1927 years was Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca.
1922 - the second country in the world, opened the first station in the world to replace the radio show and regular news.
Radiodiktorom first in the world to Cuban Esther Perea de la Torre.
In 1928, Cuba was already 68 radio stations, 43, and which - in Havana. According to this indicator, Cuba ranked 4th in the world after the U.S., Canada and the Soviet Union and the first in the world in the number of radio stations on the population and such a small territory.
Cuba - the first country in the world, released a radio show (radio), which became the ancestor radioserialov in the future - TV series. Thus, Cuba is the birthplace of television series. Author of the first productions - Cuban Felix Kaynet (Félix Caignet)
1929 - based airline Cubana de Aviación, one of the first commercial airline in the world.
1935 - Cuba is the largest Latin American country by the number of export and radioserialov radiostsenariev.
1937 - Cuba is the first Latin American countries adopted a law on 8 hour day and a minimum wage.
1940 - World's first president - a mulatto (from mother and a black father, mulatto), elected by an absolute majority of Cubans. While in Cuba, then as now, the majority of the population - are white. Ironically, it was the future dictator - Fulgencio Batista (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar).
1940 - Cuba adopted the most advanced in the Ibero-America (vklchaya Spain and Portugal) of the Constitution of its achievements: the first time in Latin America have equal rights of all men and women, between races, etc. In Spain, the woman received an equal right with men until 1976.
1950 - the second country in the world have a television station and a studio. Cuba became a television center of Latin America and Havana became the center of show business in Latin America (now the Centre - Miami).
1952 - The world's first residential building with concrete built in Havana (building El Focsa).
1954 - Cuba - a country with the largest number of cows and bulls per capita in the world - one for each resident. At the same time, Cuba - the third country in the world for the consumption of meat per capita (after Argentina and Uruguay).
1955 - the second country in Latin America (including Spain), after Uruguay, with the lowest infant mortality rate (33.4 per thousand live births).
1956 - The United Nations has recognized Cuba Latin American country with the lowest number of the illiterate population (23%of the time it was a low figure). In Haiti, 90%were illiterate, in Spain, El Salvador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, the Dominican Republic - a little over 50%.
1957 - The United Nations recognizes Cuba, a country with one of the best health indicators in the world and the best in Latin America and Spain. Cuba was one qualified doctor - specialist by 957 residents.
1957 - the most electrified country in Latin America with the highest electrification of houses (83%) and housing with a toilet with all the facilities (80%). These rates were among the highest in the world.
1957 - the number of calories consumed daily by each Cuban - 2870 - Cuba was the second, after Uruguay.
1957 - Havana - the second city in the world, which opened kinoteartr 3D and kinotreatr - multizal. Havana was the city with the highest number of cinema halls in the world - 358 - ahead of New York, Paris, London and the rest of the world.
1958 - the second country in the world to broadcast color TV and mass sales of color TV sets (in many homes are still standing, these TVs).
1958 - the third country in Latin America, the number of vehicles (160 000, that is, one machine for 38 Cubans). The first country in the number of aircraft electrical appliances in the homes of Cubans. First place in the world for the length of railways in the square. km and the number of radios in the world (1 for 2).
From 1950 to 1958, Cuba was the second /third places in personal income in Ibero-America, ahead of Italy and more than 2 times Spain. Despite the small area, and only 6.5 million people, in 1958, Cuba ranked 29th among the world's economies, far ahead of all the countries of Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1958 - According to the International Labor Organization, the average wage of workers of Cuba - in eighth place in the world (after the United States, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, Denmark and Norway), and the income of peasants - in seventh place in the world. The unemployment rate - one of the lowest in the world - 7.07%. The total working population in Cuba in 1958 - 2.204 million people.
Besides all this, in 1958, Cuba was the country with the best road surface in Latin America, with the largest number of supermarkets in Latin America, with the most modern airport (Havana), with the biggest foreign investment and the largest in the U.S. budget for the preservation of historic and landmarks.
From all the above it is clear what kind of "backward" was Cuba.
Cuba - the first country in the world, where they are widely used in homes with air conditioning, with approximately 30 years of the last century.
In Europe, they have spread over 40 years.
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Reporting in the "Week" Maksimovskaya about Cuba, or rather about how Russian women are faring today, which at one time married to Cubans, and went to the "communist fairy tale."
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