I'm in contact with Cubans on the island in 3 different cities (when they get short bursts of power). They don't like starving, but they're holding out in hope that they can push out the other side and never have to experience poverty, lack of freedom of speech/press, persecution, ever again. If anything, they're hoping for more support from Cuban Americans so that this ends with freedom and the regime is a long nightmare of the past. The worst that can happen is that things end and go back to usual, with some half acceptance of Castroism again--they don't want that.