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Bernie praised Castro as an “innovator in health care and education.”

So he probably really loves Mussolini:

They say he made the trains run on time.

Via The Hill:

Hillary Clinton went after Bernie Sanders in Wednesday night’s Democratic debate for a 1980s interview in which he praised the communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

“I think in that same interview, he praised what he called the ‘revolution of values’ in Cuba, and talked about how people were working for the common good, not for themselves,” Clinton said at the Democratic debate audience in Miami….

“You know, if the values are that you oppress people, you disappear, you imprison people, even kill people, for expressing their opinions … that is not the kind of revolution of values that I ever want to see anywhere.”

Clinton’s remarks followed the debate moderators screening a 1985 video – first reported by Buzzfeed – of Sanders praising Castro.

“Everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world,” Sanders says in the archival video. “All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro. They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them healthcare, totally transformed the society.”

….Asked whether he regretted praising Castro, Sanders, a self-termed democratic socialist, avoided the question and reiterated that the key question was whether or not the United States should be pushing for regime change in foreign countries….

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