I'm a subscriber to a bloke on youtube who calls himself "bald and bankrupt". He makes travel videos, but not the kinds of ones you see where people go to expensive, popular places and do expensive, popular things.

Instead, he goes to countries and places not often seen or filmed, a lot of times never filmed or known of, and instead of staying in the touristy areas (in the very few places he goes to that have them), he gets out among the real people and interacts with them. He has traveled all throughout the former Soviet bloc, to India, and now he's in Cuba.

In the Cold War times, there were often films of Soviet towns and supermarkets, desolate, falling down, and all of it caused by Socialism, not because the average Soviet joe wanted his town to be that way. This is a modern-day version of those films.

He did 3 videos on his time there. I recommend to watch them all. If you only have time for one, watch the last one.







And if you want a bit more, there's also a "behind-the-scenes" video of footage that didn't make the original cut.

\ProgOffJust LOOK at the Cubans in the background in every one of the scenes in the 3rd video! Every one of them is DESPERATELY hoping that they will not be identifiable in the copies of this video that The Cuban Secret Police will inevitably obtain...\ProgONOur Cuban Comrades can be correctly criticized for allowing Cuban Wanderers, Profiteers, and maybe even Thought Criminals into the stores that are reserved for Rich Western Tourists! Cuba Needs The $$$!

Kind Unkulturny, no Cuban Comrade gave the wrong answer to any question posed by these thought criminal video wanderers.

'pelipsky feelthinks our Cuban Comrades will pass the Secret Police examination.

jackalopelipsky wrote:Kind Unkulturny, no Cuban Comrade gave the wrong answer to any question posed by these thought criminal video wanderers.

'pelipsky feelthinks our Cuban Comrades will pass the Secret Police examination.

My mother went on vacation to the glorious worker's paradise of Cuba. She loved the colorful old cars and well dressed bartenders. Everyone loved Castro and communism. They loved it so much they made sure to tell all the tourists frequently how great their lives are and how Fidel stood up to American imperialism. It's almost as if they had a script prepared for them. If only we had someone like comrade Bernie in charge where we could meet our neighbors in breadlines and remember the hard times when we had to chose between 50 types of bread on a store shelf.