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These public trials and executions were held to the overwhelming approval of the public, pretty much for the purpose of mollifying widespread popular fury toward former Batistiano thugs and terrorists who had made the masses suffer and killed their relatives for years. Historians believe they most likely prevented a bloodbath of mob justice that would have killed hundreds more indiscriminately, and the trials were the method by which the revolutionaries established their authority and re-established some semblance of rule of law.
If you were tried and executed because of these trials, it’s because you were a close collaborator with the murderous Batista regime. “Police chief of Santa Clara”, yeah, I fucking bet he was.
It’s either a centralized thing like this, or the widespread people’s taking their own justice as seen in the Cultural Revolution. I’m sure if Cuba was bigger, it would have been more like the Cultural Revolution.
Historians believe they most likely prevented a bloodbath of mob justice that would have killed hundreds more indiscriminately
If the French Revolution had ended with the decapitation of the aristocracy, liberals would still be whining and moaning about how horrible it was, while casually breezing over the multiple world wars the English and French aristocracy kicked off against each other.
I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, imagine if the French Revolution had been even half as clean and orderly as the Cuban Revolution?
