I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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About Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was communist head of cuba from 1959 to 2008 (d. 2016). Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who headed Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation