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To: Tijeras_Slim
Actually, I have to retract that, I'm repeating a bogus version of history. The majority of the Cuban population had no idea that Castro was Communist when Baptista was overthrown and he came into power. They would never have supported him if they'd known. Believe it or not, he waged the revolution on a pro-U.S. platform. Cubans were slowly woken up to the fact that Castro (and now Cuba) was communist and pro-Soviet between 1959 and 1961.

Qwinn
34 posted on 12/14/2003 12:21:38 PM PST by Qwinn
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To: Qwinn
Smart move on Castro's part. If the people had seen him for what he was early on, they could have squashed his ragtag bunch of losers like a bug.
35 posted on 12/14/2003 12:23:33 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Qwinn
Cubans were slowly woken up to the fact that Castro (and now Cuba) was communist and pro-Soviet between 1959 and 1961.

You could say the same thing about American Citizens. I remember.

46 posted on 12/14/2003 1:34:52 PM PST by JudyB1938 (It's a wild world. There's a lot of bad and beware.)
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