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"Che" is how Argentines traditionall call you up, something like "yo!", "man", "guy" or "buddy". That's why Guevara was known s "el Che", meaning something like "the Argentine".
he got this nickname in bolivia. his own letters say he used it not so much as the argentine tick, but because he couldn't be bothered to learn people's names, feeling that they were beneath him. my great uncle was a scumbag.
@@michelguevara151 - I doubt that's the case. I also have a problem of forgetting names and it's not because I think others are "beneath me" it's a mental bug of some sort (not all brains are equal). I do retain faces very well however. Therefore I find myself often in the street recognizing a face (without a name) from decades ago of a person who does not recognize me anymore. I sometimes even try to greet them but no way, awkward. Strange maybe for others but I perfectly understand that. What I don't understand is that nobody seems to recognize me, I didn't sport a beard those days nor wore glasses but still... Nobody who thinks others are "beneath him" goes around the world giving away himself for other people, first as doctor, then as revolutionary leader. If he believed so, he would have stayed in the posh home of his parents, your great-grandparents I presume, as your grandfather did. You should not speak of Che that way. He surely was not right in everything (who can be?) but he definitely lived a most worthy and selfless life and is a reference for many through the World. Guevara, your surname (if you're who claims to be) comes from the Basque village of Gebara in NE Araba (Álava for the Castilian occupants), mentioned by the Roman geographers as a town of the Varduli, Bardyetas or Alabanenses. Much like Bolívar comes from the village of Bolibar, Biscay, not far away. Here in the Basque Country many are diffusely proud of these two distant relatives in America, we are not proud of many others though, we are not proud of Uribarri nor Bordaberry for example. And that's for a reason of good and evil, not of mere relationship.
@@michelguevara151 - PS - Here in the Basque country it was common to call people "txo" (Spanish spelling would be "cho"). It's unclear where it comes from, it may be just the diminutive suffix "-txo" (sometimes "-txu"). I do wonder if it's ancestral to the Argentine expression "che": they do not just sound similar, they mean exactly the same.
He wasn’t implying that 1952-1959 was the whole history of Cuba lol. He was just specifying what subsection of history he was covering of Cuba’s history
it was very good. it’s criminal how the US has directed this narrative to its citizens and the west in general. the cuban revolution was eminently reasonable. they were a US neo-colony that deserved self-determination. they actively protected the overthrown government from the public’s desire to lynch them, giving them all trials. they took land from the wealthy (often American) landowners but offered them compensation greater than even Japanese landowners were given during US occupation. Despite this, the US went ham on them. Despite the criminal isolation and the death of its initially reluctant partner the USSR, they manage to do pretty darn well, providing their medical expertise to the world. if we could just chill out for a minute maybe we could learn something
@@withakerm8085 The American Imperialists can not forgive or forget the Cuban revolution which stands as an example working people all over the world have sought to emulate including here in the US.
@@withakerm8085 ¡Ay! Este sabe usar Google Translate. Uno de los logros de la revolución, sin duda. Cuéntame, compatriota mío, tú dices que lo único que queremos los Cubanos es que Cuba prospere, y do estoy completamente de acuerdo. La única cuestión es, ¿que significa “prospere” para ti? ¿Que le quiten el “bloqueo”?
@@valentinnevarez222 DING DING DING 🛎😂😂😂😂😂😂😂then all the Cubans that left America went to trash fidel cuz fidel got rid of there corrupt system even tho fidels wasn’t that great either better then batsita
@Albert Fels in florida maybe, in cuba their people are absolutely happy with castro, their national hero who freed them from oppression and gave the education and healthcare. I have my criticism of him but he was a good leader and cuba agrees with me in large, you can see that by the tears spread for him by his death alone. Some rich fuck in miami that bombs his countries factories and people is not an authority to tell you what cuban people think, they tell it to you often enough and you don‘t listen.
@@csm5040 very bold of you to make that assumption my friend. But hey, apparently cubans mourning the death of fidel on universities and being in tears is not being liked.
You should do one of these about the Dominican Republic. Sadly there aren’t many videos about the colonization of America like this and would be nice to see you bring them to vision.
@@phoenix2.020 Yes, very much so. Even some Africans will tell you their economies faltered after it happened. You need to accept reality and not what you want with regards to decolonization. Oppression has also grown in decolonized colonies, and it childish to assume it mainly because of foreigners who somehow magically have influence over tribal customs. Facts are facts. ruclips.net/video/-NGWoRF2vT0/видео.html You need to grow up. ruclips.net/video/wsHdB0M2Sq4/видео.html
@@minewheaties5029 I don't need to "grow up". Yes, infrastructure and development certainly was a factor in many colonies and you could say that countries were more developed then compared to now. And yes, countries were in a mess for awhile after getting independence. But what kind of country wants to be ruled by another? Especially one that where the people illegally come to your land, steal land and resources, and force their language and everything onto you? On top of that, divide people and kill them? Countries got independence for a reason. You call those human rights? Certainly not. The indigenous people of these colonies had it so bad. Many lost their identities and culture, many had everything taken away from them, some were almost wiped out and became endangered, and some even became extinct because of colonialism. Yes oppression has taken place after the colonial era, but colonialism never benefited any colonized country in the long run. The only people that benefited the most were the colonizers, mostly Europeans. So no, infrastructure and development isn't an excuse for colonizing. And you can't say that's it's childish to say what I said, because there's definitely colonial influence to everything. Otherwise things wouldn't be where they are now. Not saying that colonialism is the sole reason though. But there's nothing good about it in the long run.
Please do keep referring to US presidential administrations as regimes! It's just as accurate as when US media uses the word regime to describe any government we're not supposed to like.
Well, the Regime is the Oligarchic Republic, the successive presidents are just avatars of the true Regime and the twin parties are only puppets of the Single Shadow Party of the 1%.
@@anthonyaleksinski7194 - Trump led the nationalist segment of the oligarchy, capitalists for whom the global markets are less important, like construction companies. It is only a fight between oligarchs.
@@LuisAldamiz So the 1% has money going in both directions, and the oligarchs also have people in the same group working against them, since Donald Trump worked against a large part of his party and isn't well liked there. I feel like this wouldn't be so much of a shadow government kind of system.
@@anthonyaleksinski7194 - The oligarchs almost by definition tend to fight each other for supremacy: those are the rules of Capitalism, which are not substantively different from those of the mafias (a subset of Capitalism in fact). They tend to organize in national and bloc (hierarchical bloc, one nation dominates the others) and fight each other in great wars (cf. Lenin "Imperialism...") but they also have intestine quarrels within nations/blocs as well, especially in times of uncertainty, of crisis, as are these. In such times the path is less clear also for the elites and they rally behind the ones that offer them a leadership that fit their goals, which may well be different from those of other oligarchs. The shadow government does exist and spans all NATOplus (cf. Gladio network) and that's one of the weaknesses of Trump (other than his lack of style): it's not only US oligarchs who rule the shadow government, vassal oligarchs, notably from Europe but also from Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc. are part of the imperial regime. US oligarchs are dominant but a faction that is only US-centered as is Trump's, has no support in the vassal states. It managed to promote some in Italy but Salvini went pro-China (only NATO member in the B&R Chinese alt-bloc, besides Turkey) and NATO went on damage control mode, getting him replaced. Trump clearly had lost the backing of the vast majority of great oligarchs (even Fox let him down) in this last election, and even then he managed to get a massive vote (although it's impossible to say which vote is real and which is not in the very opaque US voting system), so he seems to have an important popular backing, including surely most of the lower bourgeoisie. But in a Capitalist regime, especially modern USA, without backing of a sizable segment of the 1%, you are not going to rule. In 2016 he had a greater high bourgeois backing and also Clinton's campaign was so bad! This time, with or without cheating (IMO both cheated but the great oligarchs have much greater power when in agreement, and they were in agreement this time), he was destinied to lose: he was challenging NATO stability itself. It's weird: European oligarchs mostly need Russia as enemy, else Europe would lose its geostrategical relevance and would have two options: be a lesser US colony (which was in essence what Trump was pushing for) or get on its feet and seek an alliance with China. This last is unlikely to happen as whole European sub-bloc but some countries like Turkey or Italy were/are on that path. Germany would also be probably glad to have a more independent foreign policy, more so now that Britain is out of the EU (but they are tied by France and Poland, which are extreme pro-USA for different reasons: Eastern Europe and Africa respectively). Trump's pro-Russia strategy was too anti-European for the current state of balance of power within NATOplus. Europe may be a pushover but is important in "the cabal".
i think you did a great job of keeping this as neutral as possible which i truly truly appreciate. Fidel Castro and El Che were 2 VERY polarizing characters. many loved them but many also hated them. as a Cuban i think im obviously going to have some bias towards both of these men but i appreciate you keeping this as unbiased and neutral as possible. i would love to see your opinion on cuba from 1960’s to now especially with the protests and cries for liberty coming from the island, would really love to hear your take and history on how everything transpired.
@@uchennanwogu2142 I don't think he does. Cuba has limited access to the internet and most Cubans don't speak English unless they went to college to study English. I don't think someone living in Cuba would watch a video of Cuban history and comment about the protest since its illegal to speak anything against the government.
@@jennifermujica8346 protesting is legal and accepted in Cuba, I have a Cuban friend who was telling me about how the crackdowns on protesting are incredibly overblown
By the way thank you for explaining that his name was Ernesto Guevara. And that his nickname “el che” is just a comedic indication of him being Argentinian. I see a lot of people Wrongly using Che as his name.
Does anybody have a source for the statement of Che Guevara about Castro at the minute 24:11. I would like to use it, but I can't cite HwH as a source.
@@Ares_gaming_117 “Uncle Joe” is not a socialist. He is a puppet a far right system, like Trump. US Democrats are not socialists. Which is completely unfortunate.
@@sprokow I was talking about that user's profile picture of Joseph Stalin but go off lol. I'd also like to know how Biden is a puppet of the so called far right though 😂😂
This is an awesome video would you please consider trying to make a video detailing factors like these but for other countries like Mexico or Colombia im colombian and cant find a single educational video without it being 90 percent based on the cartels and I'll love to see you cover the other major aspects of other latin american countries.
Thank you for sharing! An excellent review of the Cuban history and very objective approach to the Cuban revolution under Fidel Castro, Che and others!
As someone from Cuba I can say, that for the most part, this video is mostly accurate. Although, it was left out as to WHY the Eisenhower administration placed an embargo against Cuba. Shortly after Castro took over Cuba he promised general elections but kept postponing it because he never had any intention of of having free and fair elections. During 1959 to 1960 Castro confiscated all of the American properties in Cuba, and as a result, Eisenhower imposed the embargo against Cuba as well as severing diplomatic relations. While all these things were happening Castro was getting friendlier relations with Moscow. While I’m not 100% certain that Castro was a Communist before the revolution, he has always had leftist and nationalist ideology and very anti-American. Although he admired FDR and his New Deal, and even wrote a favorable letter to Roosevelt. I’m ventured to say that Castro had at first, the intention of installing a nationalist revolutionary government not unlike the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or the Socialists in Venezuela,. However, as the United States became more and more hostile towards Cuba, he and members of his government became more and more aligned with the Soviet style totalitarian model; culminating in the formation of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and in 1976 adopting a Soviet-style one-party state.
Olof Palme visited Cuba. Something I am utterly proud of. I believe, had US not handled its relations with Cuba as atrociously as it did, it seems to me Cuba might very well had been more similar to Scandinavian socialism of the 1900s.
Fidel is and was anti-cuban. Just ask the citizens of Cuba today. Why do they need to flee from their own country on rafts or by any others means? They did not flee under any other Cuban government. Cuba is not the utopia so many picture it to be. You must live under this regime in order to actually have a valid opinion of what it is to live in Cuba..!!!
@@gregrodriguez714 Fidel is dead, so I don't think you've got all the facts straight. Yes, the party had authoritarian streaks, but guess what, many, many countries, particularly the US, have such tendencies to varying degree. People flee for many reasons. Economic opportunity, is the most massive reason in peace time. And the US has for a fact, strangled Cuban economy for over 50 years. The longest running embargo in *all of human history* - yet and still Cuba struggles on. That says A LOT. There has literally not been a time in human history, where we have witnessed this incredible human rights violation for so long. Which is why I said what I said- had the US not imposed such incredibly stringent embargos on Cuba it would most likely resemble Scandinavian socialism, in particular Swedish, although maybe not exactly as free, but who knows, maybe even more free. Just read his Wikipedia page and you will see many of the incredible reforms made under his regime, nuanced with the bad things as well. In the end though, no western country, comes close to the atrocities of the US.
Fidel was a University convinced Communist, as is normal, from a privileged background. He had visited the States, but had a deeply felt hatred of them, among other people, like anyone whom disagreed with him. Sometimes the Bad Guys get away with it, exemplified by Fidel & Co.
@@gregrodriguez714 Did you watch American news and see the blured out sign of a Cuban protesting pro-government. Or were told that the pro-government protests with Cuban flags were anti- government lmfao.
I like that you pronounce terms in Spanish the way they are actually pronounced. Sure, that way of saying the letter c is the European way, but it still sounds pretty good
Extra thumbs up for insisting for the correct pronunciation of yacht. It might be worth mentioning the pivotal interview that a US journalist got from Fidel visiting him in his hideout.
@@cubanenjoyer1325 well actually no, America doesn’t even use sugar, it uses high fructose corn syrup, which is far cheaper and far more unhealthy, real sugar is very much rare in products, that is why their cheaper *In Some Cases*. Actual sugar isn’t cheaper in America, not to mention sugar is subsidised in Cuba so for the average person Sugar is cheaper and of a higher quality in Cuba as I comes from real sugarcane. And as a reverse card, could you explain how American healthcare is literally thousands of times more expensive in America compared to Cuba?
@@Artur_M. The Haitian revolution supporters. That were sent there by the french, to help local garrisons to pacify the salves. Fun fact: The first Haitian president called Poles brothers and black people of europe, therefore... we Poles can say the n-word without any consequences. ;p
Hi, I was just wondering if you have a good academic source on how the US provided Castro's rebels with arms? I can't find anything on it in my university's library
@@rmgardner13 the CIA did allegedly provide the July 26th movement with funds. Chapter 17, "Enemies of All Kinds", page 260. It has been a while since I read the book, so I couldn't remember if the CIA had supplied both weapons and money. But the July 26 Movement definitely did receive monetary funding from the CIA at one point. And it's all found in that section in that page.
Now that you're reading on that look up USA providing weapons to Lenin and the Bolches. It always amuses me how muricans are perpetually surprised that their country provides weapons to guerrillas and terrorists the world over without a second thought.
THANK YOU! Excellent explanation of the history of the USA involvement (invasion of?) in other countries governments! Pleas do a series on the USA involvement in Central American countries??
@@JulianRodriguez-ym9ww NO thank you, I know things are BAD there. I was talking about ALL the involvements of the USA in foreign countries and how things were changed to PLEASE and preserve US Monetary interests in foreign countries. I lived in Central America for 9 years and saw US Government interventions for the sake on US companies in those countries.
@@ironman1518. it's cuz of castro cuba isn't a shitty place and I am thankful for that honestly. Infact they managed to be this successful all the while being embargoed by the usa and blockade other countries from trading cuba
@@ironman1518. also the hypocrisy of the us is another level biden called cuba a failed state all the while america has 600k covid deaths, nearly 100 million Americans near poverty, Americans spending half of there income just to exist in house and 54% Americans read at a 6th grade level. I would show the sources later when u read this
It's a very interesting mix of things goin on with this particular unfolding of events within a greater context. Cause yeah, Ché was a vocal communist but almost an idealist in both senses of the term, he drew inspiration from many places (especially the Perònism he grew up with) and when reading his work there are parts where it's almost indistinguishable from the writings of fascists. All of which is only complicated by the influences his personal experiences and trips to the USSR and Maoist China that he seemed to draw wild conclusions and inspirations from had on em. But Fidel on the other hand was clearly more a "nationalist" (mostly in the sense of being an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, not necessarily chauvinistic though), didn't seem to be much of an ideologue or even have much of a worldview beyond independence for Cuba, and showed himself to be a pragmatist, populist, and realist that seemed to evolve a great deal over time. It's also pretty obvious that he was more or less pushed into the Soviet/Chinese sphere of influence despite seeming to genuinely attempt to have good relations with the US first and only turning towards Leninism after the US state made it clear that peace was only possible through subjugation. It seemed far more like a practical necessity than an ideological alignment. When I was younger I had a more positive view of Ché and more negative one of Castro. But the more I read of their work, listened to their speeches, read sources from people who knew them well, etc, the more that flipped. I came to see Fidel in a much better light despite his very real, very horrible flaws, and came to see Ché as a borderline fascist who martyred himself to his cause tryna spark revolution in a place that had not long before shed plenty of blood achieving reforms leaving em with no appetite for further brutality at the time and who, true to Perónism, blended fascistic elements with Marxist elements and Leninist elements to create a worldview that was unique but extremely problematic in a number of ways and relied heavily on divorcing means from ends and grand sweeping narratives that feel epic but lack evidence or basis in reality.
@Rusty Shackleford that sounds really dope, any public place to read your dissertation? I've been really interested in the separation of powers in the Irish Government. And I see parallels in The Troubles vs UK occupation on Northern Ireland and the a possible avenue for peace between militarized police and black communities. But I also noticed that Frederick Douglass recognized the plight of the Irish during the famine and supported Irish Independence. On top of that Garvey constantly cites Ireland in his view of Black Nationalism.
@Rusty Shackleford welp, looking back at the soviet union, the actual cuba, and the china of mao, you could say that both of this nationalism actually are almost equal at raping their own country
Btw, the 'H' in Havana is not pronounced in Spanish, nor in any other word. Just mentioning it since you appear to be looking to use the local pronunciation of place names in your videos.
25:20 Well they were basically aligned with the Soviets. Though they briefly experimented with the Yugoslav model, they quickly embraced the Soviet-type economy and then they joined the CMEA in the 70s. They just weren’t super tight on foreign policy all the time, like there were disagreements over the way Cuba used its troops in Africa for example (particularly Southern Africa)
I always found it ironic how here in the US conservative Cuban Americans in particular are anti leftists on the basis of Castro even when a subject is not related to communism. Like by no means was Castro a wholesome guy but he was literally a by product of the US support of Batista.
@Rusty Shackleford pretty sure the second and third waves of cuban exiles weren't though. The Muriel boatlift was bigger than the first wave of exiles alone.
@Rusty Shackleford You sir don’t know what your talking about. Many of those that left in the sixties had fought along the Rebels, but were not communist, and had no other choice after they lost the civil war that happened mostly during that decade. The majority of Cubans have left due to the lack of freedoms, and the lack of a future in the island.
@Rusty Shackleford many who left in the mariel boatlift were actually supporters of the rebel government at first, but left because cuban officials were being purged. my family obviously isnt representative of everyone who fled, but we were not even in cuba until the spanish civil war in the 30s when they fled the facist regime's takeover, which by then, cuba had banned slavery long before their arrival
@@sprokowда мой товарищ, #vivacuba #vivacubalibre ¡Viva Cuba! ¡Viva el Partido Comunista de Cuba! ¡larga vida a la revolución! ¡Une a todos los comunistas y socialistas en solidaridad!🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
Thanks so much for making a video on this, as a Cuban-American from Miami it’s great to get some history that my family actually experienced, I feel that learning it forges a more concrete connection to that side of my ancestry, so thanks! (Love all the content by the way!)
Communism also has a very tropical 🍹 🌴🥥 🏖️ 🌞 side in the Americas. The communist wave spread easily throughout Latin America thanks to the huge economic inequalities, from central through to the southern cone. The CIA would desperately back dictators and presidents all over to keep a lid on it. Some vestiges still linger in different political forms in many countries. In recent years Venezuela tried out a retro imitaicon of those past socialist/communist movements and now it is a drastically different country.
Well Venezuela seemed to be pretty good under Hugo Chavez but after he died is when it went to shit. Also Bolivia is an example of socialism being done right where the previous indigenous majority finally got political representation under Evo Morales who dropped the illiteracy rate amongst the poor for instance
@@Spongebrain97 Venezuela has a market economy. France has a higher percentage of nationalisation that Venezuela. The real problem was the reliance on oil, when oil prices crashed they were fucked.
@@fenton3137 There is no market economy in Venezuela, there is a lot of statism, price controls and a lot of inflation, with this, the only thing that maintained the economy of Venezuela was oil (which was managed by the state) then, with the oil crisis, the only thing that maintained its economy fell, and since there was almost no investment due to how intervened its economy was
Contrary to some echoes I've heard, the Cuban Revolution did not collapse the Mickey Mouse Club. I know Fidel was at times criticizing Mickey Mouse, including in a 1997 speech about Mexico, and while he may have had good reason, the end of the first incarnation of the Mouseketeers was not his major doing. The show stopped airing non-rerun episodes in May 1958 and only spliced in reruns with few new segments when the revolution concluded. Rock-and-Roll, which Walt Disney struggled to embrace, was more likely the reason for the show's collapse. I do want to know if Elvis being obliged to go into the U.S. Army was in Cuban Revolution propaganda. That was the controversial peacetime draft which came before Muhammad Ali's Vietnam War draft.
@@historywithhilbert146 thanks, also you should do a video about Puerto Rico at some point, it has a very interesting history and has in various times coincided with Cuban history.
If the Bolsheviks are involved, Jews can never be far. And most likely it was all coordinated by Masons and under the umbrella of Fremasonry. Anyone with basic logic skills and a little bit of historical knowledge can and must come to that conclusion,right?
@@maxmeggeneder8935 Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky were kosher. The communist rule and corrupt banksters that got kicked of Germany, now run most of America's industry
Fidel: Nooo you can't just intervene in the election, and you've already been president! Batista: Haha military coup d'état go brrr With the way Batista treated the people, it's no surprise the revolution was popular. People are quick to complain about Fidel, but imo Batista was far worse. My grandma left Cuba back when the revolution happened. She hated Batista (unlike most of the people who left during that time) and was tired of living under a dictatorship so she thought she would have a better life in the US.
Batista was bad, and needed to go, but what Castro has done, has been worst. During Batista we were at least free to leave! We don’t have that with the Castros. Yes, Batista killed many people, but is nothing compared to what the Castros have done, and still do to the present. During Batista, the press was free to report the crimes, not such luck with the Castros, in fact Cuba went from having hundreds of newspapers and magazines, with Batista, to just a dozen, all state owned, with the Castros. Now I would like to comment on most foreigners favorite themes in Cuba: Free education and Free medicine. Lol they are a joke. What we do freely learn in Cuba is that the state is the second coming of Jesus, and everything else is bad. School conditions are bad, specially the bathrooms and the cafeterias. We don’t learn civil education, and sexual harassment is rampant. Hospitals, they are dirty and infected with cockroach, and other bugs. The instruments are not always well sterilized. Most doctors are good, but many are so overwhelmed, because they have to find other means to earn more money for their families. Medications if found, could already be expired. The water has to be purified as it is contaminated. Only good hospitals are those where the elite, and foreigners go, like Hermanos Almejeiras hospital. The country infrastructure is gone! And many natural resources have been decimated by the system.
@@anguscovoflyer95 The Cuba Libre story. It's a pretty good documentary but most of it is in Spanish or even French and German so I hope you don't mind subtitles.
@Albert Fels look man, its common knowledge that originally he was an anarchist, hell adoring the cultural revolution he was trying to Bring back his old anarchistic spirit
Mao Zedong is better because he was an Industrialist, if Fidel was then Cuba wouldn't have the problems they now face. Also if you think "Tibet should be free" then actually watch this video ruclips.net/video/b60_Vis2x24/видео.html&t because Mao freed Tibet.
Honestly: this documentary explains why the Cuban revolution happened. P J O'Rourke said once 'you don't often get the guy who rips down the shithouse to install the plumbing' about the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (that is, the people who start the revolution aren't always the best people to run the country), but ... I have little sympathy for Batista and the previous Cuban situation. Fascinating though how it all panned out. I am a fan of Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I know Far Cry has just done a Caribbean dictatorship installment, but I really want to see an AC game revisit the Kenway lineage during the Cuban civil war. So many twists and turns and so much potential for Assassins v Templars.
Reminds me of a quote from Lenin "During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes relentlessly persecute them, and treat their teachings with malicious hostility, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same time emasculating the revolutionary doctrine of its content, vulgarizing it and blunting its revolutionary edge."
When mentioning Trump and Obama, it’s worth noting most Cuban-Americans (at least the older ones) are unusual among Hispanics because they tend to vote Republican...just saying
@@JohnnyLodge2 Except the Gulf of Tonkin incident was one where a report was initially exaggerated and then used to justify the beginning of the war despite new reports of of no damaged found with the possible exception of an unaccounted for dent.
This was actually pretty good,which is extremely rare for non-marxist content from the West about the Cuban or other socialist revolutions! Congrats and thanx for that! I especially liked the class analysis in this video and how you always mention which class was the driving force behind the uprisings, wars and revolutions. Besides that, i especially liked that you went as far back in history as Columbus and before! And that you mentioned the slave revolts, the wars of independence and so on. Others just include the storming of the Moncada caserne. I really loved learning about the other, at the time much larger, guerilla and militant opposition groups that i have never herad about before or forgotten about. I only knew about those who were aligned with the Castro guerillas. You educated me on a topic that i read at least 30 to 40 books about! And this is what distinguishes this video from others like it. As does the lack of toxic Anti-Communism and Red Scare propaganda narratives about the Cuban Revolution, Che and Fidel Castro! Viva la Revolucion! Viva Fidel! Partia, Socialismo o Muerte! Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and it´s great achievements! Solidarity with the legitimate gouvernment and the people of Cuba! End the illegal economic blockade against Cuba! End CIA and Gusano involvement in cuban politics and cuban souveraign state affairs! No regime change in Cuba! Yankee go home! Let the people get food and medicine! Let their relatives in Florida send them money! #UnblockCuba Down with US-Imperialism! Workers and opressed peoples of the world unite!
Lol your “revolution” is already going down after only 60 years. The only countries that fallow the embargo are the us and Israel, I know for a fact that my Canada unfortunately still has relations with Cuba. The fact that you support a revolution that kicked all of the people who disagreed with it out or sent to work camps to essentially be enslaved says a lot about who you really are. Your commie revolution is nothing but a pack of lies and your just another moth to the flame. Congratulations.
cuba implement tariffs for these products beacause they are also a protecionist country. Also, I thought that america trading on 3rd world countries was exploitative
@@NI771-_ they also threaten countries with sanctions if they trade with cuba. and threaten to punish companies that trade with them. the embargo is inhumane and disgusting.
@@NI771-_ they didn't 'kick people out that disagreed with them' they kicked out LITERAL SLAVE OWNERS and fascist Bautista supporters/collaborators who abused and exploited the cuban people. most of them 'fled' actually.
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire is the personal account of the son of a judge in Cuba, whom lived under the Revolutionary regime from Jan. 1959 into 1962 when he was sent to the States by his parents. Fidel had a strong anti-American (norteamericanos) edge, not unusual for Latin American elites, among others.
@@tomfrazier1103 The first thing any self respecting Latin America or even Canadian would do when you accuse them of being anti American would be to laugh as if they are not Americans. Outside of the United States of America are two continents called North and South America. Anti American is just a slur used by those who wrap themselves in the flag and demand obedience to the government of capitalist bosses.
@@kimobrien. Who do Communist Elites side with..? Fidel's grandchildren live in Mansions, drive Luxury cars and travel all over the world in Luxury. All without WORKING..! I guess Cuban politicians are the BEST money can buy without MONEY..!
Holy shit for those of you that haven't read the story of William Morgan you should its the coolest fucking real life story of friendship, badassery, and ultimate betrayal.
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Obama gets term but Donald Trump gets regime?
@@JeremyJohnson413 yes.
@@duckles426 the question was directed to @HistoryWithHilbert.
@@JeremyJohnson413 I know, I was just saying that I agreed with Hilbert's stance on it. (And making a silly joke)
"Che" is how Argentines traditionall call you up, something like "yo!", "man", "guy" or "buddy". That's why Guevara was known s "el Che", meaning something like "the Argentine".
he got this nickname in bolivia.
his own letters say he used it not so much as the argentine tick, but because he couldn't be bothered to learn people's names, feeling that they were beneath him.
my great uncle was a scumbag.
@@michelguevara151 - I doubt that's the case. I also have a problem of forgetting names and it's not because I think others are "beneath me" it's a mental bug of some sort (not all brains are equal). I do retain faces very well however. Therefore I find myself often in the street recognizing a face (without a name) from decades ago of a person who does not recognize me anymore. I sometimes even try to greet them but no way, awkward. Strange maybe for others but I perfectly understand that. What I don't understand is that nobody seems to recognize me, I didn't sport a beard those days nor wore glasses but still...
Nobody who thinks others are "beneath him" goes around the world giving away himself for other people, first as doctor, then as revolutionary leader. If he believed so, he would have stayed in the posh home of his parents, your great-grandparents I presume, as your grandfather did.
You should not speak of Che that way. He surely was not right in everything (who can be?) but he definitely lived a most worthy and selfless life and is a reference for many through the World.
Guevara, your surname (if you're who claims to be) comes from the Basque village of Gebara in NE Araba (Álava for the Castilian occupants), mentioned by the Roman geographers as a town of the Varduli, Bardyetas or Alabanenses. Much like Bolívar comes from the village of Bolibar, Biscay, not far away. Here in the Basque Country many are diffusely proud of these two distant relatives in America, we are not proud of many others though, we are not proud of Uribarri nor Bordaberry for example. And that's for a reason of good and evil, not of mere relationship.
@@michelguevara151 - PS - Here in the Basque country it was common to call people "txo" (Spanish spelling would be "cho"). It's unclear where it comes from, it may be just the diminutive suffix "-txo" (sometimes "-txu"). I do wonder if it's ancestral to the Argentine expression "che": they do not just sound similar, they mean exactly the same.
@@michelguevara151 Bite your tongue he was a great man!!!
@@phantompunchmotorizedbikes1624 do some research about all the executions and cruelty he did in cuba. Great great man right?
"History of Cuba, 1952-1959"
Starts in 3000BC.
He wasn’t implying that 1952-1959 was the whole history of Cuba lol. He was just specifying what subsection of history he was covering of Cuba’s history
NEVERMIND I JUST WATCHED THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF THE VIDEO
@@couldbeanybody2508 Not confirmation biasy enough?
Cuba wasn't called Cuban before 1952.
@@Connect200 what?
Blowback podcast who did a great series on the Iraq war are about to release a series on Cuba, would recommend to anyone.
it was very good. it’s criminal how the US has directed this narrative to its citizens and the west in general.
the cuban revolution was eminently reasonable. they were a US neo-colony that deserved self-determination. they actively protected the overthrown government from the public’s desire to lynch them, giving them all trials. they took land from the wealthy (often American) landowners but offered them compensation greater than even Japanese landowners were given during US occupation.
Despite this, the US went ham on them. Despite the criminal isolation and the death of its initially reluctant partner the USSR, they manage to do pretty darn well, providing their medical expertise to the world.
if we could just chill out for a minute maybe we could learn something
@@withakerm8085 The American Imperialists can not forgive or forget the Cuban revolution which stands as an example working people all over the world have sought to emulate including here in the US.
@@withakerm8085 Tu no eres Cubano, deja de jugar.
@@withakerm8085 ¡Ay! Este sabe usar Google Translate. Uno de los logros de la revolución, sin duda. Cuéntame, compatriota mío, tú dices que lo único que queremos los Cubanos es que Cuba prospere, y do estoy completamente de acuerdo. La única cuestión es, ¿que significa “prospere” para ti? ¿Que le quiten el “bloqueo”?
@@withakerm8085 ¿Y que pasa después de que lo quiten? ¿Saldrá un arcoíris?
Cuba: you saved us!
America: I'd just say you are under new management.
Should’ve annexed them when we had the chance they would have been better off.
@@lincolnlog5977 pretty sure the cubans would disagree lol
@@felixvanmears pretty sure most would agree since thousands flee the Cuban Regime in terror to the US every year.
@@lincolnlog5977 people are free and allowed to leave cuba, they arent "fleeing"
I thought about putting the meme of: "we're here to save you please do not resist."
Loving your videos mate! Keep up the great work!
when people talk about how their grandparents left Cuba because Fidel was authoritarian i just wonder why they didnt leave under Batista
it was mostly middle class people that left. Fidel raised taxes and begun taking over every aspect of Cuba and so the middle class ditched.
because they were most likely wealthy slave owners who thrived under batista
@@valentinnevarez222 DING DING DING 🛎😂😂😂😂😂😂😂then all the Cubans that left America went to trash fidel cuz fidel got rid of there corrupt system even tho fidels wasn’t that great either better then batsita
@@1Elgard You don't overcome underdevelopment with just a revolution. Plus the US almost immediately blockaded and attacked them.
Mine did; they left back in '52, but then they returned either in late 59 or early 60, only to leave two years later
Thank you. That was fantastic. Your videos are of highest quality. Much appreciated for all the work this had to have been. Bravo!
Greatly made Hilbert, enjoyed your breakdown & the points you mentioned.
The one dislike is from batista
Or regular Cubans who hate that shit
@@csm5040 i think you mean Miami traitors 👀. Gusano go brrrr
@Albert Fels in florida maybe, in cuba their people are absolutely happy with castro, their national hero who freed them from oppression and gave the education and healthcare. I have my criticism of him but he was a good leader and cuba agrees with me in large, you can see that by the tears spread for him by his death alone. Some rich fuck in miami that bombs his countries factories and people is not an authority to tell you what cuban people think, they tell it to you often enough and you don‘t listen.
@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 LOL. You haven’t set a foot on Cuba in your life lol. People just hate the shit out of Fidel. Especially the youth xD
@@csm5040 very bold of you to make that assumption my friend. But hey, apparently cubans mourning the death of fidel on universities and being in tears is not being liked.
You should do one of these about the Dominican Republic. Sadly there aren’t many videos about the colonization of America like this and would be nice to see you bring them to vision.
There is a video of History Matters explaining how the natives of Dominican Republic spoke with the Spanish. It was a.. Curious process
Scientific fact=Colonization brings better economies and at times also better freedom, equality and justice.
@@minewheaties5029 no, not at all.
@@phoenix2.020 Yes, very much so. Even some Africans will tell you their economies faltered after it happened. You need to accept reality and not what you want with regards to decolonization. Oppression has also grown in decolonized colonies, and it childish to assume it mainly because of foreigners who somehow magically have influence over tribal customs. Facts are facts. ruclips.net/video/-NGWoRF2vT0/видео.html You need to grow up. ruclips.net/video/wsHdB0M2Sq4/видео.html
@@minewheaties5029 I don't need to "grow up". Yes, infrastructure and development certainly was a factor in many colonies and you could say that countries were more developed then compared to now. And yes, countries were in a mess for awhile after getting independence. But what kind of country wants to be ruled by another? Especially one that where the people illegally come to your land, steal land and resources, and force their language and everything onto you? On top of that, divide people and kill them? Countries got independence for a reason. You call those human rights? Certainly not. The indigenous people of these colonies had it so bad. Many lost their identities and culture, many had everything taken away from them, some were almost wiped out and became endangered, and some even became extinct because of colonialism. Yes oppression has taken place after the colonial era, but colonialism never benefited any colonized country in the long run. The only people that benefited the most were the colonizers, mostly Europeans. So no, infrastructure and development isn't an excuse for colonizing. And you can't say that's it's childish to say what I said, because there's definitely colonial influence to everything. Otherwise things wouldn't be where they are now. Not saying that colonialism is the sole reason though. But there's nothing good about it in the long run.
Please do keep referring to US presidential administrations as regimes! It's just as accurate as when US media uses the word regime to describe any government we're not supposed to like.
Well, the Regime is the Oligarchic Republic, the successive presidents are just avatars of the true Regime and the twin parties are only puppets of the Single Shadow Party of the 1%.
@@LuisAldamiz so cypher installed Donald Trump? I would’ve preferred George Sears.
@@anthonyaleksinski7194 - Trump led the nationalist segment of the oligarchy, capitalists for whom the global markets are less important, like construction companies. It is only a fight between oligarchs.
@@LuisAldamiz So the 1% has money going in both directions, and the oligarchs also have people in the same group working against them, since Donald Trump worked against a large part of his party and isn't well liked there. I feel like this wouldn't be so much of a shadow government kind of system.
@@anthonyaleksinski7194 - The oligarchs almost by definition tend to fight each other for supremacy: those are the rules of Capitalism, which are not substantively different from those of the mafias (a subset of Capitalism in fact). They tend to organize in national and bloc (hierarchical bloc, one nation dominates the others) and fight each other in great wars (cf. Lenin "Imperialism...") but they also have intestine quarrels within nations/blocs as well, especially in times of uncertainty, of crisis, as are these. In such times the path is less clear also for the elites and they rally behind the ones that offer them a leadership that fit their goals, which may well be different from those of other oligarchs.
The shadow government does exist and spans all NATOplus (cf. Gladio network) and that's one of the weaknesses of Trump (other than his lack of style): it's not only US oligarchs who rule the shadow government, vassal oligarchs, notably from Europe but also from Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc. are part of the imperial regime. US oligarchs are dominant but a faction that is only US-centered as is Trump's, has no support in the vassal states. It managed to promote some in Italy but Salvini went pro-China (only NATO member in the B&R Chinese alt-bloc, besides Turkey) and NATO went on damage control mode, getting him replaced.
Trump clearly had lost the backing of the vast majority of great oligarchs (even Fox let him down) in this last election, and even then he managed to get a massive vote (although it's impossible to say which vote is real and which is not in the very opaque US voting system), so he seems to have an important popular backing, including surely most of the lower bourgeoisie. But in a Capitalist regime, especially modern USA, without backing of a sizable segment of the 1%, you are not going to rule. In 2016 he had a greater high bourgeois backing and also Clinton's campaign was so bad! This time, with or without cheating (IMO both cheated but the great oligarchs have much greater power when in agreement, and they were in agreement this time), he was destinied to lose: he was challenging NATO stability itself.
It's weird: European oligarchs mostly need Russia as enemy, else Europe would lose its geostrategical relevance and would have two options: be a lesser US colony (which was in essence what Trump was pushing for) or get on its feet and seek an alliance with China. This last is unlikely to happen as whole European sub-bloc but some countries like Turkey or Italy were/are on that path. Germany would also be probably glad to have a more independent foreign policy, more so now that Britain is out of the EU (but they are tied by France and Poland, which are extreme pro-USA for different reasons: Eastern Europe and Africa respectively).
Trump's pro-Russia strategy was too anti-European for the current state of balance of power within NATOplus. Europe may be a pushover but is important in "the cabal".
great video !!!! thank you so much please do more videos on Cuba!!
Hilbert: "What was the Cuban revolution? Around 3000BC..."
Woah
i think you did a great job of keeping this as neutral as possible which i truly truly appreciate. Fidel Castro and El Che were 2 VERY polarizing characters. many loved them but many also hated them. as a Cuban i think im obviously going to have some bias towards both of these men but i appreciate you keeping this as unbiased and neutral as possible. i would love to see your opinion on cuba from 1960’s to now especially with the protests and cries for liberty coming from the island, would really love to hear your take and history on how everything transpired.
Do you live in Cuba now?
@@uchennanwogu2142 I don't think he does. Cuba has limited access to the internet and most Cubans don't speak English unless they went to college to study English. I don't think someone living in Cuba would watch a video of Cuban history and comment about the protest since its illegal to speak anything against the government.
@@jennifermujica8346 how exactly is this video against the government??
@@jennifermujica8346 What the fuck are you talking about? Cubans have internet acces and protesting is legal
@@jennifermujica8346 protesting is legal and accepted in Cuba, I have a Cuban friend who was telling me about how the crackdowns on protesting are incredibly overblown
Thanks for enlightening me!
By the way thank you for explaining that his name was Ernesto Guevara. And that his nickname “el che” is just a comedic indication of him being Argentinian. I see a lot of people Wrongly using Che as his name.
Actually AFAIK che comes from the mapuzugun word for man or human (as in Mapuche) but it's ambiguous for the most part
It’s amazing the amount of quality content you produce! Keep it up!
Great educational video!!!!
Thank you for this video.
Hilbert! When will you do a in depth multiepisode documentary about the dutch war of independence?
Would love a video on the Easter Rising of 1916 for Easter week
Based
Oh that would of been brilliant, maybe next year.
@@ahopefor sad
Long live volonteer James Conolly!
For a free, united and socialist Ireland!
@@maxmeggeneder8935 better dead than red
YAYYYYYY EPIC VIDEO AS ALWAYS
Good video, thanks.
Does anybody have a source for the statement of Che Guevara about Castro at the minute 24:11. I would like to use it, but I can't cite HwH as a source.
Great work Hilbert 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you!
This was a very interesting and informative video and more these will educate people about the causes of this kind of problem
This is one of the best war history channels going
Ready your Cigars and Communism
socialism is okay
@@shawnv123 ohhh that old uncle Joe
@@Ares_gaming_117 “Uncle Joe” is not a socialist. He is a puppet a far right system, like Trump. US Democrats are not socialists. Which is completely unfortunate.
@@sprokow I was talking about that user's profile picture of Joseph Stalin but go off lol. I'd also like to know how Biden is a puppet of the so called far right though 😂😂
Very interesting video, well balanced, factual.
This is an awesome video would you please consider trying to make a video detailing factors like these but for other countries like Mexico or Colombia im colombian and cant find a single educational video without it being 90 percent based on the cartels and I'll love to see you cover the other major aspects of other latin american countries.
Excellent!!!
Somewhat disappointed that Cespedes and Jose Marti weren't named but good video
Thank you for sharing!
An excellent review of the Cuban history and very objective approach to the Cuban revolution under Fidel Castro, Che and others!
Fantastic!
enjoyed.
As someone from Cuba I can say, that for the most part, this video is mostly accurate. Although, it was left out as to WHY the Eisenhower administration placed an embargo against Cuba. Shortly after Castro took over Cuba he promised general elections but kept postponing it because he never had any intention of of having free and fair elections. During 1959 to 1960 Castro confiscated all of the American properties in Cuba, and as a result, Eisenhower imposed the embargo against Cuba as well as severing diplomatic relations. While all these things were happening Castro was getting friendlier relations with Moscow. While I’m not 100% certain that Castro was a Communist before the revolution, he has always had leftist and nationalist ideology and very anti-American. Although he admired FDR and his New Deal, and even wrote a favorable letter to Roosevelt. I’m ventured to say that Castro had at first, the intention of installing a nationalist revolutionary government not unlike the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or the Socialists in Venezuela,. However, as the United States became more and more hostile towards Cuba, he and members of his government became more and more aligned with the Soviet style totalitarian model; culminating in the formation of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and in 1976 adopting a Soviet-style one-party state.
Olof Palme visited Cuba. Something I am utterly proud of. I believe, had US not handled its relations with Cuba as atrociously as it did, it seems to me Cuba might very well had been more similar to Scandinavian socialism of the 1900s.
Fidel is and was anti-cuban. Just ask the citizens of Cuba today. Why do they need to flee from their own country on rafts or by any others means? They did not flee under any other Cuban government. Cuba is not the utopia so many picture it to be. You must live under this regime in order to actually have a valid opinion of what it is to live in Cuba..!!!
@@gregrodriguez714 Fidel is dead, so I don't think you've got all the facts straight.
Yes, the party had authoritarian streaks, but guess what, many, many countries, particularly the US, have such tendencies to varying degree.
People flee for many reasons. Economic opportunity, is the most massive reason in peace time. And the US has for a fact, strangled Cuban economy for over 50 years. The longest running embargo in *all of human history* - yet and still Cuba struggles on. That says A LOT. There has literally not been a time in human history, where we have witnessed this incredible human rights violation for so long. Which is why I said what I said- had the US not imposed such incredibly stringent embargos on Cuba it would most likely resemble Scandinavian socialism, in particular Swedish, although maybe not exactly as free, but who knows, maybe even more free.
Just read his Wikipedia page and you will see many of the incredible reforms made under his regime, nuanced with the bad things as well. In the end though, no western country, comes close to the atrocities of the US.
Fidel was a University convinced Communist, as is normal, from a privileged background. He had visited the States, but had a deeply felt hatred of them, among other people, like anyone whom disagreed with him. Sometimes the Bad Guys get away with it, exemplified by Fidel & Co.
@@gregrodriguez714 Did you watch American news and see the blured out sign of a Cuban protesting pro-government. Or were told that the pro-government protests with Cuban flags were anti- government lmfao.
I like that you pronounce terms in Spanish the way they are actually pronounced. Sure, that way of saying the letter c is the European way, but it still sounds pretty good
Me gusta más la pronunciación de los países como colombia, Perú, México
cubans pronounce c the european way i'm pretty sure
My High School History essay thanks you
im cuban ur video was like i dont know , was AMAZING :D
"One of these were the D.R.E", why did that make me want to sing Forgot about Dre...
Lol 😂 same
Dropping Heat on Friday like always Hilbert! Great Vid.
Thank you!
@@historywithhilbert146 No problem. thanks for content!
I like how the music is literally the first thing that pops up when you look up Spanish guitar music
Extra thumbs up for insisting for the correct pronunciation of yacht.
It might be worth mentioning the pivotal interview that a US journalist
got from Fidel visiting him in his hideout.
Sugar, the best thing for a healthy diet.... 🤤
Americans love sugar that’s why obesity is one of our #1 killers...
@@caseclosed9342 especially when we dont produce it
Fun fact: sugar is more expensive in Cuba than in America
@@cubanenjoyer1325 well actually no, America doesn’t even use sugar, it uses high fructose corn syrup, which is far cheaper and far more unhealthy, real sugar is very much rare in products, that is why their cheaper *In Some Cases*. Actual sugar isn’t cheaper in America, not to mention sugar is subsidised in Cuba so for the average person Sugar is cheaper and of a higher quality in Cuba as I comes from real sugarcane. And as a reverse card, could you explain how American healthcare is literally thousands of times more expensive in America compared to Cuba?
Oh boy, cant wait to see the commends on this video
Tell me the book your reading from please.
hi history with hilbert i like your content would you mind to make some Poland vidoes
Yeah like before and during Nazi and Soviet occupation of Poland from the Molotov-Ribbontrov Pact.
Oczywiście!
Lmao are you doing alevel cold war history?
Fun fact: there are actually Polish soldiers making an appearance in this video. Can anyone spot them? 😉
@@Artur_M. The Haitian revolution supporters.
That were sent there by the french, to help local garrisons to pacify the salves.
Fun fact: The first Haitian president called Poles brothers and black people of europe, therefore... we Poles can say the n-word without any consequences. ;p
Hi, I was just wondering if you have a good academic source on how the US provided Castro's rebels with arms? I can't find anything on it in my university's library
Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara biography contains many of the details you're looking for.
it didnt provide castro with arms it stopped giving Batista aid because of how corrupt he was.
@@fernandoharo3738 i didnt see any evidence of American aid in this book you mind telling me where it is ?
@@rmgardner13 the CIA did allegedly provide the July 26th movement with funds. Chapter 17, "Enemies of All Kinds", page 260. It has been a while since I read the book, so I couldn't remember if the CIA had supplied both weapons and money. But the July 26 Movement definitely did receive monetary funding from the CIA at one point. And it's all found in that section in that page.
Now that you're reading on that look up USA providing weapons to Lenin and the Bolches. It always amuses me how muricans are perpetually surprised that their country provides weapons to guerrillas and terrorists the world over without a second thought.
THANK YOU! Excellent explanation of the history of the USA involvement (invasion of?) in other countries governments! Pleas do a series on the USA involvement in Central American countries??
move to cuba you would love it and please stay there
@@JulianRodriguez-ym9ww NO thank you, I know things are BAD there. I was talking about ALL the involvements of the USA in foreign countries and how things were changed to PLEASE and preserve US Monetary interests in foreign countries. I lived in Central America for 9 years and saw US Government interventions for the sake on US companies in those countries.
@@ironman1518. it's cuz of castro cuba isn't a shitty place and I am thankful for that honestly. Infact they managed to be this successful all the while being embargoed by the usa and blockade other countries from trading cuba
@@ironman1518. also the hypocrisy of the us is another level biden called cuba a failed state all the while america has 600k covid deaths, nearly 100 million Americans near poverty, Americans spending half of there income just to exist in house and 54% Americans read at a 6th grade level. I would show the sources later when u read this
@@idk-iw9kb No it's the legacy of US Imperialism and the blockade.
Very nice but not even a mention of Camilo ... ?
Still subscribed tho 👌
Or Jose Martí
It's a very interesting mix of things goin on with this particular unfolding of events within a greater context.
Cause yeah, Ché was a vocal communist but almost an idealist in both senses of the term, he drew inspiration from many places (especially the Perònism he grew up with) and when reading his work there are parts where it's almost indistinguishable from the writings of fascists. All of which is only complicated by the influences his personal experiences and trips to the USSR and Maoist China that he seemed to draw wild conclusions and inspirations from had on em.
But Fidel on the other hand was clearly more a "nationalist" (mostly in the sense of being an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, not necessarily chauvinistic though), didn't seem to be much of an ideologue or even have much of a worldview beyond independence for Cuba, and showed himself to be a pragmatist, populist, and realist that seemed to evolve a great deal over time. It's also pretty obvious that he was more or less pushed into the Soviet/Chinese sphere of influence despite seeming to genuinely attempt to have good relations with the US first and only turning towards Leninism after the US state made it clear that peace was only possible through subjugation. It seemed far more like a practical necessity than an ideological alignment.
When I was younger I had a more positive view of Ché and more negative one of Castro. But the more I read of their work, listened to their speeches, read sources from people who knew them well, etc, the more that flipped. I came to see Fidel in a much better light despite his very real, very horrible flaws, and came to see Ché as a borderline fascist who martyred himself to his cause tryna spark revolution in a place that had not long before shed plenty of blood achieving reforms leaving em with no appetite for further brutality at the time and who, true to Perónism, blended fascistic elements with Marxist elements and Leninist elements to create a worldview that was unique but extremely problematic in a number of ways and relied heavily on divorcing means from ends and grand sweeping narratives that feel epic but lack evidence or basis in reality.
Peronism, as described by more than a few people, is nothing more and nothing less than a cult of personality trying anything to legitimize itself.
@Rusty Shackleford that sounds really dope, any public place to read your dissertation? I've been really interested in the separation of powers in the Irish Government. And I see parallels in The Troubles vs UK occupation on Northern Ireland and the a possible avenue for peace between militarized police and black communities. But I also noticed that Frederick Douglass recognized the plight of the Irish during the famine and supported Irish Independence. On top of that Garvey constantly cites Ireland in his view of Black Nationalism.
@Rusty Shackleford welp, looking back at the soviet union, the actual cuba, and the china of mao, you could say that both of this nationalism actually are almost equal at raping their own country
@@pepinillojr.4781 Just more Imperialist nonsense. Were either the American revolution or Civil war decided with a show of hands?
Imagine thinking that fidel only became a marxist-leninist after the revolution... liberals are such a joke
Btw, the 'H' in Havana is not pronounced in Spanish, nor in any other word.
Just mentioning it since you appear to be looking to use the local pronunciation of place names in your videos.
There has to be a biopic starring Liam Neeson and Benicio Del Torro.
Type shit
Displaced by the Tainos? Which group is that?
I’ve enjoyed this video!
Wasn't the USS Maine sunk because it wasn't maintained well? I feel you should have brought that up
It was, but you know the US any excuse work if they want to get into a country
@@anthuan2028 revisionist history by ignorant people who know nothing but want to inject their politics instead of facts.
Ahhh good old times
Yo you got yourself a subscriber, love that name you got
"regime, i should probably use the word term"
*2 seconds later*
"donald Trump's regime"
😂
what are the lessons learned from the Cuban revolution?
25:20 Well they were basically aligned with the Soviets. Though they briefly experimented with the Yugoslav model, they quickly embraced the Soviet-type economy and then they joined the CMEA in the 70s. They just weren’t super tight on foreign policy all the time, like there were disagreements over the way Cuba used its troops in Africa for example (particularly Southern Africa)
Yes but to help ending apartheid in South Africa which was supported strongly by Us.
@@historyeditz8326 and just look at south Africa now
@@adrianshephard378 heh defending apartheid. Not sure why someone would be so bold at being trash
@@adrianshephard378 Like the rest of the capitalist world isn't in crisis.
@@adrianshephard378 better to be poor in freedom than rich in slavery!
I always found it ironic how here in the US conservative Cuban Americans in particular are anti leftists on the basis of Castro even when a subject is not related to communism. Like by no means was Castro a wholesome guy but he was literally a by product of the US support of Batista.
@Rusty Shackleford pretty sure the second and third waves of cuban exiles weren't though. The Muriel boatlift was bigger than the first wave of exiles alone.
@Rusty Shackleford You sir don’t know what your talking about. Many of those that left in the sixties had fought along the Rebels, but were not communist, and had no other choice after they lost the civil war that happened mostly during that decade. The majority of Cubans have left due to the lack of freedoms, and the lack of a future in the island.
@Rusty Shackleford many who left in the mariel boatlift were actually supporters of the rebel government at first, but left because cuban officials were being purged. my family obviously isnt representative of everyone who fled, but we were not even in cuba until the spanish civil war in the 30s when they fled the facist regime's takeover, which by then, cuba had banned slavery long before their arrival
The guy who commented this is clearly a 12 year old
@@adrianshephard378 no but you are 😅
Wow so many commercials
16:06 Uh, guess who's back...
This comment is my favorite.
"The goal of Socialism is Communism." - Vladimir Lenin
Perfect! An excellent goal!
@@sprokowда мой товарищ, #vivacuba #vivacubalibre
¡Viva Cuba!
¡Viva el Partido Comunista de Cuba!
¡larga vida a la revolución!
¡Une a todos los comunistas y socialistas en solidaridad!🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
@@_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._ YES, comrade! 💪 🇨🇺
That implies though, that 'his' socialism in fact speaks for any or all socialism, as a rule to quote without context in the modern age.
I hope the comment I just made was not obstructed by that ad that just came up
Yes! Another video
Hope you enjoyed it|!
A very balanced and well-articulated account. Looks like the US dropped the ball.
So real
Thanks so much for making a video on this, as a Cuban-American from Miami it’s great to get some history that my family actually experienced, I feel that learning it forges a more concrete connection to that side of my ancestry, so thanks! (Love all the content by the way!)
Communism also has a very tropical 🍹 🌴🥥 🏖️ 🌞 side in the Americas. The communist wave spread easily throughout Latin America thanks to the huge economic inequalities, from central through to the southern cone. The CIA would desperately back dictators and presidents all over to keep a lid on it. Some vestiges still linger in different political forms in many countries. In recent years Venezuela tried out a retro imitaicon of those past socialist/communist movements and now it is a drastically different country.
Well Venezuela seemed to be pretty good under Hugo Chavez but after he died is when it went to shit. Also Bolivia is an example of socialism being done right where the previous indigenous majority finally got political representation under Evo Morales who dropped the illiteracy rate amongst the poor for instance
@@Spongebrain97 Venezuela has a market economy. France has a higher percentage of nationalisation that Venezuela. The real problem was the reliance on oil, when oil prices crashed they were fucked.
What would you call Castro if not a dictator? 😂
@@fenton3137 There is no market economy in Venezuela, there is a lot of statism, price controls and a lot of inflation, with this, the only thing that maintained the economy of Venezuela was oil (which was managed by the state) then, with the oil crisis, the only thing that maintained its economy fell, and since there was almost no investment due to how intervened its economy was
@@pepinillojr.4781 "There is no market economy in Venezuela." A heavily regulated market economy, is still a market economy.
Do one about Trinidad and Tobago
Contrary to some echoes I've heard, the Cuban Revolution did not collapse the Mickey Mouse Club. I know Fidel was at times criticizing Mickey Mouse, including in a 1997 speech about Mexico, and while he may have had good reason, the end of the first incarnation of the Mouseketeers was not his major doing. The show stopped airing non-rerun episodes in May 1958 and only spliced in reruns with few new segments when the revolution concluded. Rock-and-Roll, which Walt Disney struggled to embrace, was more likely the reason for the show's collapse. I do want to know if Elvis being obliged to go into the U.S. Army was in Cuban Revolution propaganda. That was the controversial peacetime draft which came before Muhammad Ali's Vietnam War draft.
Wat.
Am I the first here? Anyway, this is a very interesting video, love it.
Congratulations ;)
@@historywithhilbert146 thanks, also you should do a video about Puerto Rico at some point, it has a very interesting history and has in various times coincided with Cuban history.
@@texxon3355 Yes, that would definitely be a great video since my mom is Puerto Rican
@@Masonrytodger cool, I am Puerto Rican too.
“Oh I get it, it all makes sense now. It was Bush and the Jews that did the Cuban revolution”
Huh?
If the Bolsheviks are involved, Jews can never be far. And most likely it was all coordinated by Masons and under the umbrella of Fremasonry.
Anyone with basic logic skills and a little bit of historical knowledge can and must come to that conclusion,right?
@Steffan Blanco Hope so.
@@maxmeggeneder8935 Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky were kosher. The communist rule and corrupt banksters that got kicked of Germany, now run most of America's industry
@@Jayyy667 They were all self hating jews as well. Communism is rooted in anti-Semitism.
Woah
Hilbert: "Obama's regime... I say regime, I should say term."
Also Hilbert: "Trump's regime"
Okay...
😂😂😂
Both figureheads of the same regime
@@NathanDudani, hilarious. 🙄
@@NathanDudani yup people don't think it's odd they all get paid by the same elites.
Tuck Frump
Fidel: Nooo you can't just intervene in the election, and you've already been president!
Batista: Haha military coup d'état go brrr
With the way Batista treated the people, it's no surprise the revolution was popular. People are quick to complain about Fidel, but imo Batista was far worse. My grandma left Cuba back when the revolution happened. She hated Batista (unlike most of the people who left during that time) and was tired of living under a dictatorship so she thought she would have a better life in the US.
Now that’s a fair position to have! What percentage of Cuban exiles share this sentiment you think?
Yeah its pretty weird how a lot of Cuban Americans never bring up Batista despite him being what created Castro
If Batista hadn't been so @€#_# Cuba would probably be a democracy today
@@jorgeh.r9879 it still is
Batista was bad, and needed to go, but what Castro has done, has been worst. During Batista we were at least free to leave! We don’t have that with the Castros. Yes, Batista killed many people, but is nothing compared to what the Castros have done, and still do to the present. During Batista, the press was free to report the crimes, not such luck with the Castros, in fact Cuba went from having hundreds of newspapers and magazines, with Batista, to just a dozen, all state owned, with the Castros.
Now I would like to comment on most foreigners favorite themes in Cuba: Free education and Free medicine. Lol they are a joke. What we do freely learn in Cuba is that the state is the second coming of Jesus, and everything else is bad. School conditions are bad, specially the bathrooms and the cafeterias. We don’t learn civil education, and sexual harassment is rampant. Hospitals, they are dirty and infected with cockroach, and other bugs. The instruments are not always well sterilized. Most doctors are good, but many are so overwhelmed, because they have to find other means to earn more money for their families. Medications if found, could already be expired. The water has to be purified as it is contaminated. Only good hospitals are those where the elite, and foreigners go, like Hermanos Almejeiras hospital.
The country infrastructure is gone! And many natural resources have been decimated by the system.
I watched the Cuban history doc on Netflix, greatly recommended
What’s the name of that documentary?
@@anguscovoflyer95 The Cuba Libre story. It's a pretty good documentary but most of it is in Spanish or even French and German so I hope you don't mind subtitles.
@@TWE_2000 nah doesn't bother me at all
@@anguscovoflyer95 "The Cuba Libre Story" I think
Do one about dominican republic
5:25 . That is not the cuban flag. That is the flag of Puerto Rico.
To an extant, this can also be said of Mao and Ho chi min before the cold war
not mao, he was always anarchist and communist, but Ho Chi Minh I agree with you on
@@theremapping3840 anarchist, ha
@@NathanDudani yeah, pre-1930s Mao was an anarchist
@Albert Fels look man, its common knowledge that originally he was an anarchist, hell adoring the cultural revolution he was trying to Bring back his old anarchistic spirit
Mao Zedong is better because he was an Industrialist, if Fidel was then Cuba wouldn't have the problems they now face. Also if you think "Tibet should be free" then actually watch this video ruclips.net/video/b60_Vis2x24/видео.html&t because Mao freed Tibet.
Finna play as Cuba in Victoria II.
Victoria 2 is a game?
Oh i just googled it, ok, do you have recommendations on any games similar to it, i kinda like this strategy global games
@@9uer1lla18 You can check out the latest paradox games in general or maybe Sid Meier's Civilization games.
Yo cuba is still a colony in victoria 2 oof
Of spain
Honestly: this documentary explains why the Cuban revolution happened. P J O'Rourke said once 'you don't often get the guy who rips down the shithouse to install the plumbing' about the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (that is, the people who start the revolution aren't always the best people to run the country), but ... I have little sympathy for Batista and the previous Cuban situation.
Fascinating though how it all panned out. I am a fan of Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I know Far Cry has just done a Caribbean dictatorship installment, but I really want to see an AC game revisit the Kenway lineage during the Cuban civil war. So many twists and turns and so much potential for Assassins v Templars.
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Cuba and the DPRK
best friends, forever
Perhaps
I always find you in the comment section
Yo dude, I thought you were dead.
two rouge democracies fighting imperialism
@@PowersOfDarkness lol democracies
I like the comments
Your Spanish is excellent ❤️😁
Gracias!
Please do more videos about cuba
And the Cubans lived happily ever after,
nothing but glad tidings awaited them…
With fault from the US and it’s choking of the island country of resources
@@preludio423 it’s America’s fault for not trading with them
@@preludio423 so if the USA traded with Cuba it wouldn't of been a dictatorship that used chemical weapons in Africa?
Che: "I will help to destroy capitalism"
Capitalists making TShirts for modern communists to buy: "sure thing buddy"
That's not necessarily a criticism of him, but rather the explicit commodification of him so as to neutralize his message by absorbing his symbols
That's kind of just what capitalism does lol, everything and anything is commodified and turned into a product.
@@russellmellott452 Which is good for a lot of people, new jobs, new products, abundance,etc
Reminds me of a quote from Lenin
"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes relentlessly persecute them, and treat their teachings with malicious hostility, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaign of lies and slanders. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same time emasculating the revolutionary doctrine of its content, vulgarizing it and blunting its revolutionary edge."
@@crsitlukumbu5731 jObS aNd PrOdUcTs
When mentioning Trump and Obama, it’s worth noting most Cuban-Americans (at least the older ones) are unusual among Hispanics because they tend to vote Republican...just saying
Usually people that live in true socialism tend to not vote that way
Because they are white, they were the rich white land owners fleeing from getting their servants freed.
say what you will about the Cuban revolutionaries but they were incredibly good at armed struggle.
why didn't Fidel and Che simply vote out the Batista dictatorship smh
The amount of times the US gets involved in a war, after one of their ships have been sunk is.... remarkable
WW1&2, spanish american war,
Gulf of Tonkin incident too
And USS Cole
@@JohnnyLodge2 Except the Gulf of Tonkin incident was one where a report was initially exaggerated and then used to justify the beginning of the war despite new reports of of no damaged found with the possible exception of an unaccounted for dent.
This was actually pretty good,which is extremely rare for non-marxist content from the West about the Cuban or other socialist revolutions! Congrats and thanx for that!
I especially liked the class analysis in this video and how you always mention which class was the driving force behind the uprisings, wars and revolutions.
Besides that, i especially liked that you went as far back in history as Columbus and before! And that you mentioned the slave revolts, the wars of independence and so on. Others just include the storming of the Moncada caserne.
I really loved learning about the other, at the time much larger, guerilla and militant opposition groups that i have never herad about before or forgotten about. I only knew about those who were aligned with the Castro guerillas.
You educated me on a topic that i read at least 30 to 40 books about! And this is what distinguishes this video from others like it.
As does the lack of toxic Anti-Communism and Red Scare propaganda narratives about the Cuban Revolution, Che and Fidel Castro!
Viva la Revolucion!
Viva Fidel!
Partia, Socialismo o Muerte!
Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and it´s great achievements!
Solidarity with the legitimate gouvernment and the people of Cuba!
End the illegal economic blockade against Cuba!
End CIA and Gusano involvement in cuban politics and cuban souveraign state affairs!
No regime change in Cuba! Yankee go home!
Let the people get food and medicine! Let their relatives in Florida send them money!
#UnblockCuba
Down with US-Imperialism!
Workers and opressed peoples of the world unite!
Lol your “revolution” is already going down after only 60 years. The only countries that fallow the embargo are the us and Israel, I know for a fact that my Canada unfortunately still has relations with Cuba. The fact that you support a revolution that kicked all of the people who disagreed with it out or sent to work camps to essentially be enslaved says a lot about who you really are.
Your commie revolution is nothing but a pack of lies and your just another moth to the flame. Congratulations.
cuba implement tariffs for these products beacause they are also a protecionist country. Also, I thought that america trading on 3rd world countries was exploitative
@@NI771-_ they also threaten countries with sanctions if they trade with cuba. and threaten to punish companies that trade with them. the embargo is inhumane and disgusting.
@@NI771-_ they didn't 'kick people out that disagreed with them' they kicked out LITERAL SLAVE OWNERS and fascist Bautista supporters/collaborators who abused and exploited the cuban people. most of them 'fled' actually.
@@NI771-_ the fact that u dont support overthrowing a fascist military dictator and a slave state says a lot about who you really are
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire is the personal account of the son of a judge in Cuba, whom lived under the Revolutionary regime from Jan. 1959 into 1962 when he was sent to the States by his parents. Fidel had a strong anti-American (norteamericanos) edge, not unusual for Latin American elites, among others.
Latin American elites are always the first to side with the US Imperialist. They are the best politicians money can buy.
@@kimobrien. Some do, others do not, vehemently
@@tomfrazier1103 The first thing any self respecting Latin America or even Canadian would do when you accuse them of being anti American would be to laugh as if they are not Americans. Outside of the United States of America are two continents called North and South America. Anti American is just a slur used by those who wrap themselves in the flag and demand obedience to the government of capitalist bosses.
@@kimobrien. Who do Communist Elites side with..? Fidel's grandchildren live in Mansions, drive Luxury cars and travel all over the world in Luxury. All without WORKING..! I guess Cuban politicians are the BEST money can buy without MONEY..!
It's not Blaineee the e is silent.
Holy shit for those of you that haven't read the story of William Morgan you should its the coolest fucking real life story of friendship, badassery, and ultimate betrayal.
Morgan a US citizen confessed to arming terrorist after the revolution.
I request Naxalites. Ongoing and silenced history of India.
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