Please Stop Saying You Want to Go to Cuba Before It’s Ruined

[Ken Burch]

109. The root cause of all of it was the massive austerity imposed on those countries

by Western lenders in exchange for credit.

In the "free elections" held in Eastern Europe after 1991, every party was forced to agree to carry on the austerity program if elected.

This led to nothing but years of crushing poverty, poverty even the supposedly "social democratic" parties in those countries(and even the former Communist parties, for that matter)were pledged to do nothing about.

The only parties who raised any questions about this were the xenophobic, ethnic-nationalist parties of the extreme Right(not that they had any real plans for changing things, but they sounded like they did, like Trump does here to some desperate people).

Thus, the conditions that transformed Weimar Germany into the Third Reich were imposed everywhere from East Berlin to Warsaw. What else could happen but what did end up happening?

Austerity causes fascism.