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).
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).
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.