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Re: Cuba is jail - plain and simple.

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***Honestly, Victor, I think that the father just has to eventually pull the asylum card. Has he got his family with him?


There is no speak of a chance for him. You remember, he didn't travel here like a *normal* human being, he was brought on a charter US-owned private jet, put in the armored limo right away, and sped away to the closed Cuban compound. With Cuban security personnel around him full time there is no chance, and he knows it.

It is impossible for a free individual to comprehand the limitations that people in totalitarian countries live under. You can't even imagine what people had to go through to travel abroad, even to the super-communist countries like Bulgaria or ah, Cuba. You would have to go through humiliation hell and you would not go unless you were leaving hostages behind - your close family. People were screened and then screened, and then you would still have defectors. Most of them had to plan their escape for months - it was not just walking across some line.

Imagine that father running to a cop and asking for asylum? Why, our brave government would turn him back in a heart beat - in the best interest of his child, I am sure.

No, not gonna happen, no escape.

***But I saw something on TV (I know realiable statistics there), but while ball players bail in a heart beat, Cuban musicians seem to want to stay. I don't get that.

I can't speak for Cuban musicians, but in many American Symphony orchestras Russian names are the norm (much like in the hockey teams). However, that market is small and the supply is large. Most musicians don't make all that much, with only few exceptions. I have no idea how good the Cuban musicians are, but I am sure the competition is stiff.

There was a joke at one time regarding the Russian immigrants to Israel: If a man is getting off the Moscow plane in Tel Aviv, and he has no violin case with him, that means he is a pianist.

Great majority of them had to find some other occupation.



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