The left that wants to jump over the wall to East Berlin and sail on a raft to Cuba

In the most famous Spanish literary work of all time, "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes wrote some very inspiring words.

The Bernauer Strasse tunnels in Berlin: underground routes to escape communism
The '13 de Marzo': the murder of 11 children and 30 men and women by Cuban communism

These words appear in Chapter LVIII, and in them Don Quixote of La Mancha says the following to his faithful squire Sancho Panza:

"Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has given to men; no treasures that the earth holds or the sea conceals can match it; for freedom as well as for honor one can and should risk one's life."

Surely many inhabitants of two communist dictatorships, the former East Germany and present-day Cuba, had never read those words but fully shared their meaning, since for years thousands of people risked their lives to flee tyranny and be able to live in a free country. Some braved the extremely dangerous attempt to jump over the Berlin Wall (and even dig underneath tunnels), and others risked fleeing on rafts or boats to Florida (in some cases, being killed by the Cuban dictatorship, which did not even spare children and babies).

All of these people decided to flee from one of the greatest deceptions of all time: the so-called "communist paradise", a utopia with which totalitarian charlatans deceived millions of people, subjecting them to some of the worst tyrannies history has ever known. Several of them still exist, including that of Cuba.

This deception led many people to believe that they would be happy if they gave up their freedom in favor of the State, a State that would guarantee them equality, prosperity and everything necessary for life, at the "modest" price of not having the right to freely express their opinion.

Today it may seem incredible that anyone would believe such a thing, but the reality is that millions of people still defend this criminal ideological fraud, even in Western countries. However, even the most fanatic are less stupid than they sometimes seem: not a single communist is known to have risked his life to jump the wall into East Berlin or to flee by raft to Cuba.

Despite this, there are still people living in democratic countries who believe that it would be better to have less freedom or even none at all. This week we had an example of this. Many Twitter users have started to abandon the social network because they believe that there is too much freedom on it. They prefer a network where their ideological rivals are censored for disagreeing, as was the case on Twitter before the arrival of Elon Musk and as continues to happen on other social networks.

At the beginning of 2021, censorship on some social networks (including Twitter, then controlled by the left) caused a huge exodus to other platforms by users who wanted to be able to freely express their opinions without having their accounts suspended at the whim of intolerant wokes. Obviously, this exodus was not comparable to the escapes from East Germany and Cuba, but it shared the same goal: to seek freedom, something for which "one can and should risk one's life."

Normal people are fleeing in search of freedom, but the left-wing is fleeing from it, from a fundamental right that we all have to express what we think without suffering reprisals for it. A right that the left has trampled on in many dictatorships that still today have the support of socialists and communists. Let us recall, without going any further, that six years ago Spanish socialists and communists voted against a condemnation of repression in Cuba in the European Parliament, and that three years ago, in a shameful vote, the entire Spanish parliamentary left refused to condemn the crimes of communism. That says a lot about what the left-wing really is, beyond the misleading messages it continues to send out today to try to convince people to give up their freedom.

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