Nicaragua Perfectly Exemplifies How Socialism Can Only be Maintained by Force
By David Unsworth
Perhaps the greatest quote in history on the true nature of socialism was offered by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who observed that, “the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.†For purposes of style we might paraphrase it as: “socialism is a great idea, until you run out of other people’s money to spend.â€
The past century and a half have clearly demonstrated that people do not want socialism. They will, in fact, risk their very lives to flee it. As Europe lay in ruins in the waning days of World War II, and Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union carved up their spheres of influence, half of Europe was soon to fall under the onerous dominion of Soviet Communism.
It soon became readily apparent that those in Eastern Europe, suffering under the yoke of a completely failed ideology, got the raw end of the deal. As massive flows of people sought to live in liberty, as opposed to tyranny, the Iron Curtain was established: barbed wire, walls, machine gun turrets, observation posts, all to prevent people from escaping socialism to live in free-market economies.
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Nicaragua has agreed to a peace truce concerning the ongoing violence and allow a probe into the situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44505350
