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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Fidel Castro

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Fidel Castro
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: August 13
Died: 2016
Died: November 25
Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
Journalist
Lawyer
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Revolutionary
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?
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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba our country is also humanity.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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