{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"m14brony's status on Saturday, 05-Sep-15 01:33:25 UTC","author_name":"m14brony","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/m14brony","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3981917","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/9\" class=\"url\" title=\"Rarity\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">rarity<\/span><\/a><\/span> Admittedly, I am glad that you brought up the subject, as I need to brush up on my studies (two years of 14-16 hour days between college and work did wonders to make me &quot;rusty&quot;). :)  <br \/><br \/>The isolation of Cuba definitely had its effect, and it played no small role in its orientation toward the USSR (the isolation of the revolution in backward Russia also played a key role in the degeneration of the USSR from its early proletarian democracy into the infamous Stalinist regime; Marx long ago noted that all of the &quot;old crap&quot; would inevitably return in such situations)."}