Fidel Castro backgroun: Before the overthrow of Baltista (if the spelling is correct), Fidel Castro did not associated with Communism even when there was a Communist Party in Cuba before the Communist period. The Communist Party at that time aligned with USSR and is one of the major player to free Cuba from puppet tyrant rule of European immigrant colonizers, but the Communist Party is revisionary and oppose the violent regime change despite the brutality of Baltista. Fidel only decided to align with Communism when he realized that he need the support of USSR to defend the democracy in his country against the USA who want democracy to exist in name only.
I could be wrong, but from what I read from a biography of Che Guevara, he and Castro were both communists or communist-sympathizers from when they first met. Castro just kept it more on the down low so that the U.S. wouldn’t be as eager to help Batista.
Yeah, from what I understand, he always sympathized with communism but was also smart enough to not espouse it openly until he knew he could firmly defend the revolution. He actually got quite a bit of support from the US in overthrowing Batista, which made them all the more pissed when they found out they had actually been helping a communist.
Fidel Castro backgroun: Before the overthrow of Baltista (if the spelling is correct), Fidel Castro did not associated with Communism even when there was a Communist Party in Cuba before the Communist period. The Communist Party at that time aligned with USSR and is one of the major player to free Cuba from puppet tyrant rule of European immigrant colonizers, but the Communist Party is revisionary and oppose the violent regime change despite the brutality of Baltista. Fidel only decided to align with Communism when he realized that he need the support of USSR to defend the democracy in his country against the USA who want democracy to exist in name only.
I could be wrong, but from what I read from a biography of Che Guevara, he and Castro were both communists or communist-sympathizers from when they first met. Castro just kept it more on the down low so that the U.S. wouldn’t be as eager to help Batista.
Yeah, from what I understand, he always sympathized with communism but was also smart enough to not espouse it openly until he knew he could firmly defend the revolution. He actually got quite a bit of support from the US in overthrowing Batista, which made them all the more pissed when they found out they had actually been helping a communist.