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On the recordSeptember 4, 2025
History is clear: from Stalin’s gulags and Cambodia’s killing fields to Castro’s firing squads in Havana, socialism has always ended in misery, suffering, and death.
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María Elvira Salazar
Republican · Florida

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Salazar outlines the historical failures of socialism.

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