Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro (far left) and Che Guevara (center), in Havana in 1960.
On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.
Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the “Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil” (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.
On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.
In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.
Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
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To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
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so are we gonna see another deebeezero post about this megathread this week about the ebil tankies worshiping the monsters that overthrew the poor smol bean bautista?
Nah, prob a cooldown period I’m guessing. Maybe in a couple weeks.
I’m more surprised by the fact we didn’t see one for the Stalin mega, thats a free space in the bingo card for some folks
That’s why I think Castro will get a pass, and that some other thread will piss someone off in a couple weeks. The fact that Stalin went under the radar means it was either unnoticed or unsurprising for most people, and that they only noticed the Mao thread by chance.
To be fair, some dbzer0 users were arguing against the OP of that thread too. I think it’s a certain type of user that has to notice it and get upset.
Yep, dbzer0 as an instance has pretty sharp contradictions among its userbase.
Ok that means im making a kim jong um thread this year
Hell yea!
Honestly not sure which is more demonized, KJU or Stalin. The DPRK is treated like a fantasy land in the minds of libs.
Fidel was homophobic! they say, never mind that his contemporaries were people like ronald reagan and thatcher, but he actually acknowledged his wrongness and apologized to the community.
If I drank, it would be funny to go on that thread drunk. Even sober it’s good entertainment. There’s a guy now saying “Marx and his allies believed Communism can’t come about by force” which I think can just endlessly be dunked on.
How can a person possibly come to this conclusion? There are multiple incredibly famous quotes that obviously contradict this idea of Marx and Engels being peaceful reformists even if you read no theory. “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered”, “have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution”, etc.
They only know of marx from that assassins creed game where he says violence is bad.
People really do make up whatever random bullshit they want rather than reading Marx. It amazes me that people feel totally fine just pulling that out of their asses with no basis.
And it’s like, why lie about this? You can just… not be a Marxist if you don’t like Marx. It’s not like Perón in Argentina where everyone has to be a Peronist, Marx’s name is a bad word and makes you less popular. So I really don’t get why they want to claim Marx in the first place.
First paragraph of State and Revolution etc etc
Yep, the man is blunted by liberals throwing everything they’ve learned by osmosis through their own myopic frame of analysis, making assumptions that don’t hold.
Fidel threw all worms into a big blender its truee