According to the tweet, it's Fidel Castro and not Che Guevara. So which is it?
And Fidel denied being a communist even after coming to power. Some historians even believe that he was sincere, and that the US Bay of Pigs invasion drive him into the arms of the USSR. I think that is fairly unlikely though. There is a long history of communists using broad-based movements to advance their own agenda, including the Spanish case and the Vietcong (the NLF was not officially communist but ecumenical).
Fidel's revolution immediately went communist after coming to power. The communist party was legalized, the executions started, and the nationalization of farmland all happened within 6 months of January 8th, 1959.
Bay of Pigs was April 1961.
So, in other words, communist sympathizers masquerading as historical experts push the idea that Castro was sincere and it was the mean ol' USA that pushed them communist.
He lied in order to deceive the churches into supporting him. He knew saying that he was a communist outright would lose him the support of the Christians. It's just that after he was elected, he made sure he didn't need their support any longer.
According to the tweet, it's Fidel Castro and not Che Guevara. So which is it?
And Fidel denied being a communist even after coming to power. Some historians even believe that he was sincere, and that the US Bay of Pigs invasion drive him into the arms of the USSR. I think that is fairly unlikely though. There is a long history of communists using broad-based movements to advance their own agenda, including the Spanish case and the Vietcong (the NLF was not officially communist but ecumenical).
It's obviously Fidel Castro based on his striking resemblance to Justin Trudeau.
Fidel's revolution immediately went communist after coming to power. The communist party was legalized, the executions started, and the nationalization of farmland all happened within 6 months of January 8th, 1959.
Bay of Pigs was April 1961.
So, in other words, communist sympathizers masquerading as historical experts push the idea that Castro was sincere and it was the mean ol' USA that pushed them communist.
Whatever Cuba is, I don't want it.
I may have been unclear.
The question was not whether Castro was a communist. The question is whether he turned communist in 1961, or whether he was one all along.
It might have been a mixture of things.
He lied in order to deceive the churches into supporting him. He knew saying that he was a communist outright would lose him the support of the Christians. It's just that after he was elected, he made sure he didn't need their support any longer.
Lmao, sorry. I can't believe I missed that.