Posted on 02/02/2011 4:01:21 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
Absolutely!
Castro’s philosophy was alligned with that of the Soviets but I don’t believe there is much evidence Russia directly aided the overthrow of Batista. It is true, Castro was a socialist and he did strongly tie himself with the USSR after taking over control of the country.
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It doesn't appear that “dead man walking” is an actual quote, but El Baradei clearly gave him 48 hours to leave the country.
Why the rush? He said he will leave in Sept.
Your chronology is right. Castro, while obviously very left leaning, didn’t announce his ties to the USSR until AFTER he had deposed Batista. Does anyone recall Castro being feted in the USA, and hanging out at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, NYC ?
Most, if not all, of the idealistic young Americans who went to Cuba to fight with Castro in the mountains and on into Havana left his movement with that announcement.
Yes, I may be dating myself, but I was a youngster at the time I saw Edward R. Murrow interviewing Castro on CBS and praising him as "the George Washington of Cuba."
My guess is that if you looked through the documents of the successor to the Comintern (the international communist body) in Moscow, you would find plenty of evidence. These files only became available after the collapse of the Soviet Union, so at the time Castro's explicit announcement of his Red colors c. 1960 came as a surprise to many dupes in the West.
He is being complicit in a coup. Why aren’t the pubs screaming about this. The rats did it to Bush when Chavez blamed Bush for the coup in Venezuela.
Thanks justiceseeker93. El Baradei is going to his grave for this one.
Yes, I recall the trip to the US, don’t recall where it was to though. Some people just cannot fathom that sometimes revolutions spark from within a country, not from outside of it. Check the US Revolution if you don’t believe that it can and has happened.
Me sense is, if Castro had been armed in any meaningful fashion by the commies prior to 59, the US would have stepped in to stop it.
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