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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Whoa, totally missed this gem. Please, elaborate! How in the hell is this a FACT?
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Can't say it's a fact since it never happened but at the time of Castro's revolution the media was reporting that Castro had communists around such as Che but Castro wasn't a communist.
In fact Castro had a history of democracy and had run for election when Batista overthrew the democracy in Cuba and he didn't declare he was a Marxist Leninist until 1961. When Castro threw out the Mafia and nationalized the American telephone company [Bennet did the same in BC] the USA was put in an awkward position and wouldn't back down. Poor diplomacy on both parts that almost led to WWIII and continues stupidly today.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDcastroF.htm