by Monica Showalter
American Thinker
Defying death, terror, and beatings, millions of Cubans took to the streets across Cuba shouting “freedom” and “we are not afraid” in a collective call to end to the 62-year communist dictatorship.
It was breathtaking, a thing of beauty, comparable only to Tiananmen or the fall of the Berlin wall.
It took unprecedented courage, too — against state goons, secret police, government death squads, and paid thugs — who are responding now like cornered rats, recognizing very well their survival is at stake.
It’s too soon to tell if the Cubans have won. A big general strike has been called today. But even if they didn’t, this was a vast people’s repudiation of communism, that brutal system so praised by the U.S. left.