A friend of mine just told me this amazing fact about Cuba:

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I've never been to Cuba so I cannot verify this for certain, but according to him in Cuba the public glorification of living leaders is against the law. If you see banners of someone, it is usually Che Guevara, but never Raoul or Fidel.

Compared to America, this seems so foreign. With our presidents usually being treated as celebrities and schools and libraries and whatnot being named after living people and all that.

It seems hard to imagine. I was previously under the assumption that "communist" countries were generally even worse about personal glorification of leaders than the USA.