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Honestly, I give more leeway to Castro, who was in a bad position and didn't pretend to be an original theorist, over Lenin or Stalin who fucked up their governments in new and exciting ways.
It doesn't justify the authoritarianism of the Cuban regime, but I see Castro in a much more tragic light than Lenin or Stalin, who created most of their own problems and made those problems the rest of the world's as well.