Lmao let’s start with the fact that Cuba lost its sugar economy because the US started releasing plagues in our country. But yea let me not speak on how racist it is to relegate a Black Country to “a sugar plantation”. https://t.co/75LFFoHta0— mambí (@mambi26) March 26, 2021
here we have a unique case of a maoist calling cuba a "banana republic" of the soviet union because it received aid from it
but that was made impossible for him when it became clear he was a communist
There’s quotes from Castro saying almost the opposite - if you look at his early beliefs he was really just for a progressive national liberation movement. He said later that it was only after seeing the way the communists treated independent Cuba, versus how the capitalists treated them, that turned him into a committed communist.
I thought he became a communist during the revolution itself, but if it happened afterwards partially as a response to US coldness that's a bit different.
There’s quotes from Castro saying almost the opposite - if you look at his early beliefs he was really just for a progressive national liberation movement. He said later that it was only after seeing the way the communists treated independent Cuba, versus how the capitalists treated them, that turned him into a committed communist.
Hanging out with Che helped of course :P
I thought he became a communist during the revolution itself, but if it happened afterwards partially as a response to US coldness that's a bit different.