Che Guevara's Epic Fail in the Congo

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  • This was Ernesto “Che” Guevara, a devoted revolutionary and internationalist, who became one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution and of the struggle against colonialism, neocolonialism and oppression in the developing world..
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    Opposing Worldviews: A New Perspective on Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s Failure in the Congo Amy J. King
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    The Lack of Philosophical Knowledge in Che Guevara’s Pedagogy: Fetishizing Love for Justice and Rage against Imperialism at the Expense of Logos, by Khaled Al-Kassimi
    The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence, Martin Meredith
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Комментарии • 783

  • @kennethwebber8159
    @kennethwebber8159 11 месяцев назад +638

    I can only imagine the frustration of Guevara, a committed communist-atheist, when his Congolese troops told him they relied on magic.

    • @arushanioshaka5600
      @arushanioshaka5600 11 месяцев назад +25

      😂😂magic

    • @hernancortez5995
      @hernancortez5995 11 месяцев назад

      That's the reason why they r few tech inventors and more wizards and magicians over there ignorance is as powerful as a bullet to the brain

    • @elscorpioperfecto3260
      @elscorpioperfecto3260 11 месяцев назад +16

      Those are the Mai-Mai militas seen in Katanga and Kivu right?

    • @robertlevine2827
      @robertlevine2827 11 месяцев назад +81

      Too bad Liberia's General Butt-Naked wasn't around at the time instead.

    • @tracym8952
      @tracym8952 11 месяцев назад +28

      ​@@robertlevine2827general mosquitoes spray was a fun one too

  • @tankwright5489
    @tankwright5489 11 месяцев назад +230

    You did not mention that the US Navy had an intelligence ship off the coast of Tanzania that listened to all Cuban radio traffic in the Congo, therefore they knew every move Che would make before he even started and were able to checkmate him every step of the way

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 11 месяцев назад +29

      Awesome

    • @mogreen19
      @mogreen19 11 месяцев назад +25

      We need to thank the US Navy for their service more over. The homophobe Killer Che Guevara needed to be stopped.

    • @FaceNapalm
      @FaceNapalm 11 месяцев назад +58

      @@mogreen19 there is literally no credible evidence that Che was homophobic. He never spoke out against homosexuality in his works or speeches. Besides, the US which you are so eager to praise literally had homosexual relations criminalised in most states at least until mid 60s, and still has sodomy laws in several states.

    • @mogreen19
      @mogreen19 11 месяцев назад

      @@FaceNapalm There is credible evidence indeed: Che was a homophobic killer.

    • @battlecross8540
      @battlecross8540 11 месяцев назад +20

      ​@@FaceNapalmSo why were Homosexuals shot in Cuba under Castro's govt?

  • @notani3533
    @notani3533 11 месяцев назад +236

    Thinking the Cuban revolution can be replicated in other countries like in Africa or South America is simply expecting miracles. Not to mention that he should've gathered intelligence on the actual situation in the Congo than thinking it was in the same circumstances as in Cuba.

    • @elscorpioperfecto3260
      @elscorpioperfecto3260 11 месяцев назад +41

      He should also remember the Congolese ain’t just some homogenous people in terms of culture.

    • @beorntwit711
      @beorntwit711 11 месяцев назад +1

      The problem was that they haven't really won in Cuba; the regime melted away, and they seized the revolution into their hands.
      This convinced them that they found the right model - but the model was successful when US was basically neutral to them.
      After conflicts with Eisenhower's administration, this was no longer the case. The US would pour as much resources as was needed to prevent 'another Cuba'.
      In Congo, of course, there was never any revolutionary potential; it had to be built from scratch, and that was hardly going to happen with the rebel leaders that were there.
      Perhaps if Pierre Mulele had established himself close to Tanzania, they might have found someone willing to learn and organize by their standards.

    • @KashtaNovaFolks
      @KashtaNovaFolks 11 месяцев назад +8

      Africa is a continent not a country elementary comment

    • @user-dz4eb5rb3g
      @user-dz4eb5rb3g 11 месяцев назад +23

      ⁠@@KashtaNovaFolksbruh, he said that thinking that the Cuban revolution can be replicated in Africa and South America.
      He did not say that they are countries!

    • @KashtaNovaFolks
      @KashtaNovaFolks 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@user-dz4eb5rb3g “thinking that the Cuban revolution can be done in anther countries like in Africa and South America. Neither one of those are countries. How about name some countries and not continents. I can read, maybe you and the initial commenter aren’t proficient in comprehension.

  • @MthokoMpofanaTV
    @MthokoMpofanaTV 11 месяцев назад +123

    He claimed that the Congolese weren't serious on fighting imperialism & left without doing much.

    • @sgonzo5572
      @sgonzo5572 11 месяцев назад +80

      He might be right. Because he was.

    • @africaine4889
      @africaine4889 11 месяцев назад +46

      Yep. He was talking about Laurent desire kabils. Am Congolese and i believe him

    • @afriworia5020
      @afriworia5020 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@africaine4889 and also Kaikaseme

    • @Trihahalos
      @Trihahalos 11 месяцев назад

      One can say many things about Che Guevara. But he was committed to his revolutionary dreams (that's why he has so many detractors). To the extreme. In any sense. And he died for them. When even that guy sees your "revolution" and doesn't see anything in it, guess what... Your "revolution" is probably something else...

    • @bantuluba6721
      @bantuluba6721 11 месяцев назад

      @richmondapore888what war did RPF have with Mobutu?

  • @MegaTang1234
    @MegaTang1234 11 месяцев назад +86

    You know the saying "I rather have a lion lead a heard of sheep than a sheep lead a pride of lions?" Well clearly just because a lion is leading a heard of sheep doesn't mean it's gonna make victory any easier.

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 11 месяцев назад

      Braindead lion at that.

    • @beorntwit711
      @beorntwit711 11 месяцев назад +10

      Take into account that Che was 'not the leader' even for the Cubans (all black Cubanos). And they were certainly having a lot of trouble cooperating, much less controlling, any of the local rebels.

    • @abstractapproach634
      @abstractapproach634 10 месяцев назад

      Especially with a racist Lion who puts gays in labor camps, (clearly not a bright fella, like nothing would get done in those camps)

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy 11 месяцев назад +63

    It reminds me of something Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: "... If you are ignorant of yourself and the enemy, you will always be in peril." He went in not knowing a thing about his allies or their capabilities or how to work with them. When U.S. Special Forces go into a country they learn the language and customs of their allies and form a bond with them so they can build trust. When you're fighting a war in another country you have to adapt yourself to the conditions and not expect the conditions to adapt to your needs or beliefs. Clearly this was the case not only in the Congo, but also in Bolivia where he got killed.

    • @jc5388
      @jc5388 11 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you for explaining everything to us

    • @schizoidboy
      @schizoidboy 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@jc5388 Sorry, habit. ;)

    • @TheShadowwarrior80
      @TheShadowwarrior80 11 месяцев назад +9

      In Bolivia, he arrogantly assumed that the locals spoke Spanish. They spoke a variety of native languages. Furthermore, the government had actually improved their quality of life. They were legitimately worried to lose what they already had.

    • @schizoidboy
      @schizoidboy 11 месяцев назад +8

      @@TheShadowwarrior80 The President of Bolivia also spoke the Indian language which also helps a lot. It was also suggested that Che should have gone to the part of the country where the mines were because they would have been more receptive to his cause.

    • @vandalcreed
      @vandalcreed 10 месяцев назад +1

      Gain control via violence, something, something, something, utopia achieved. That pretty much surmises communism (or any other socialism) and those that believed in it.

  • @JiRiMa
    @JiRiMa 11 месяцев назад +46

    as a congolese-christian Im comfused why this video is more famous then my country.

    • @kinterkester5973
      @kinterkester5973 10 месяцев назад

      Because you remain brainwashed by the adulterated religion brought into your country by the Belgians meant to kill and annihilated more than 6 million of our people . Liberate yourself if mental religious slavery and you will understand why

    • @lostsoulatl
      @lostsoulatl 10 месяцев назад +3

      Go eat some fufu

    • @JiRiMa
      @JiRiMa 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@lostsoulatl Yes fufu :)

    • @nathanolson3135
      @nathanolson3135 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@lostsoulatlall Congolese don’t eat fufu 😂😂😂🤡

    • @RDCFemmes
      @RDCFemmes 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@lostsoulatlYou mean sone lituma? 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @concernedcitizen2766
    @concernedcitizen2766 11 месяцев назад +57

    Guevara sealed his fate when he reached out to the PRC. Remember, 1965 was just after the Sino-Soviet split, and Cuba was firmly in the grip of the Soviets. Fidel couldn’t have anyone in his inner circle who was willing to do business with Mao via Chou Enlai.

    • @concernedcitizen2766
      @concernedcitizen2766 11 месяцев назад +10

      @@richmondapore888 this further confirms that Che and Fidel split over geopolitical differences that were underpinned by ideological differences. It seems that Che wanted to go a Maoist route and Fidel wanted to stay with the Soviets.

    • @concernedcitizen2766
      @concernedcitizen2766 11 месяцев назад +11

      @@richmondapore888 regardless of whether or not there was a split, it would have had to take place. The Chinese and the Soviets were at the brink of war by the end of the Sixties, and had there been a Marxist camp and a Maoist camp within the Cuban Communist Party both vying for control, history would have been very different than what it is.

    • @miahconnell23
      @miahconnell23 11 месяцев назад

      ⁠could be apocryphal,but I read somewhere that Ché *not* making “special exemptions or exceptions” for US intel / actors when anti-revolutionaries faced a firing squad was a tipping point where the CiA & US foreign policy turned HARD anti-Cuba, which drove the Revolutionary Government into the welcoming arms of the USSR. I don’t know this for sure, but I guess new regimes almost everywhere had a “gentlemen’s agreement” to separate out the few “company men” from the locals and allow them to escape stateside (allow or assist 🤷‍♀️), and Ché-from his point of view-acted from his sense of fairness regarding authenticity in applying retribution, death sentences, no special favours & stuff like that: y’know, working from his morals and not being ethically squishy or flexible: he didn’t wanna revolt against or reconstitute regimes in a Reálpolitiqué [realpolitik ?] mode or mould…

    • @concernedcitizen2766
      @concernedcitizen2766 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@miahconnell23 I think a major point here is the fact that the Cuban Revolution resulted in changing one foreign master (America) for another (USSR).

    • @miahconnell23
      @miahconnell23 11 месяцев назад

      @@concernedcitizen2766 Agreed. Even if Cuba *COULD’VE* been totally self-sustaining and self-sovereign, the USA wouldn’t have allowed that. Which bums me out. I wish the USA’s foreign policy decisions were more in alignment with the values & mores that our founding documents elucidate and our citizens espouse.

  • @Void7.4.14
    @Void7.4.14 11 месяцев назад +101

    For a supposed Historical Materialist he sure ignored the material conditions on the ground in both Congo and Bolivia and that arrogance cost em everything 🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @musamusashi
      @musamusashi 11 месяцев назад +42

      "Arrogance"? How someone ready to sacrifice for the liberation struggle of other people can be called arrogant? He could have prepared better, that's sure, but the reason of this failure was in the lack of discipline and organization of the Congolese.
      In Bolivia he was betrayed and sold out, and that wasn't his fault.

    • @paolorossi784
      @paolorossi784 11 месяцев назад +1

      You must be a very du11 character.

    • @rodrigosantoscienceros
      @rodrigosantoscienceros 11 месяцев назад +37

      ​@@musamusashi
      Arrogant as in he didn't even try to relate to the local forces. He refused to compromise with any of his allies if they even slightest differences in ideology. Instead of working with other left wing militias he isolated himself.
      Also he wasn't sold out in Bolivia, he started harassing the local indians (the people he claimed to be fighting for) because they didn't want to join his guerilla force. And since they were just civilians they literally just called the cops on him, then the military got involved

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@musamusashi he was an idiotic scumbag.

    • @rinzo2009
      @rinzo2009 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@musamusashi Thank you Comrade. Che was the sacrificial lamb in Bolivia.

  • @christopping5876
    @christopping5876 11 месяцев назад +71

    Another excellent video. The mineral wealth in the Katanga region is still being fought over and the riches misappropriated to this day. Another country whose potential has been squandered by the political "elite".😢

    • @BildoTrip-eu3lb
      @BildoTrip-eu3lb 10 месяцев назад +3

      Utter nonsense. It’s been squandered by the complete inability of the locals to do anything with the resources they’ve had throughout history

    • @screwstatists7324
      @screwstatists7324 10 месяцев назад +3

      Yes, all of Africa would look like Dubai if the people were free from themselves, the product of their own rule.

    • @jajajajajajajajaja867
      @jajajajajajajajaja867 10 месяцев назад

      Everyone wants to drive electric cars to save the planet.

    • @fal2218
      @fal2218 10 месяцев назад +2

      Thank the americans and their greed for that

    • @jajajajajajajajaja867
      @jajajajajajajajaja867 10 месяцев назад

      @@fal2218 Americans? You seem confused as most Americans don't have $500 in the bank for a rainy day. Do some research so you don't make a fool of yourself next time. The rich come in all shapes,sizes and colors not just the Americans.

  • @yankeebisbis
    @yankeebisbis 11 месяцев назад +9

    Always good stuff from you mate. Waiting for the next one. I clicked on like even before watching the video. The title alone made me so happy. Thanks

  • @georgesmith4768
    @georgesmith4768 11 месяцев назад +8

    The best part about the “having” magic that turns a bullet into water has to be that a bullet sized slug of watter moving at bullet speeds will still totaly kill you

    • @Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs
      @Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs 9 месяцев назад +1

      Right! I'm curious to know what that would look like. I gunsmith for a living and I know that the energy delivered to a target is a combination of mass and velocity. Water, being fairly heavy, would still impart energy when traveling at a high speed.

  • @Visiontech
    @Visiontech 10 месяцев назад +41

    This mission was doomed for failure and he was warned over and over again. When you can see drunkard leaders, magic believing troops and so much more you know it's not going to happen. There doesn't seemed to have been "ANY" reconnaissance whatsoever and the most basic observations would have made all the difference. For all of Che Guevara's romantic and legendary prowess it appears that the only success that he had was in Cuba and that success was due to Castro. I've read about him and in my opinion he was risking his life because he wanted to be like Castro. There was NOTHING special about what happened in Cuba as far as the overthrow of Batista. It's happened a million times even to this day. It took years as it sometimes does. A foolish man and nothing more than that!!! Even Castro realized it and may have known all along.

    • @jefjohn2008
      @jefjohn2008 10 месяцев назад +9

      Exactly! And this may be why Castro may have known that Che would fail miserably in Bolivia as well.

    • @JesusHernandez-ll5ok
      @JesusHernandez-ll5ok 9 месяцев назад

      Che Guevara succes, was not to win wars but to inspire others to get rid of opression, Venezuela did it and so Bolivia, and South África, and so did Ecuador for a moment and Perú for a moment but the evil empire you are so proud of and the rich people in those countries derail everything.
      But the time is up God's judgment is moving slowly but shurly, how can you scape fool?
      Last time I check in the book of life your name was not 😔 there
      Mr. Visual Politic" 🥸🤓🧐Many Moe & Jack

  • @gasmonkey1000
    @gasmonkey1000 11 месяцев назад +14

    Congolese Simbas: *Getting drunk and painting themselves in "natural" paint to protect htemselves against bullets while chanting praises to ancient spirits after bumrushing M8 Greyhounds for the 3rd time that day*
    Che Guevara: "I... How... how can this get any worse?"
    Mad Mike Hoare: "Hello there."

    • @alwayscurious3357
      @alwayscurious3357 10 месяцев назад +3

      And Hoare is the complete Anathema of Guevara. An Accountant, Adventurer, and War Veteran to boot.

    • @apintofbeer1667
      @apintofbeer1667 10 месяцев назад

      @@alwayscurious3357 British,mercenary,rapist and murderer

  • @KingofAwesomness14
    @KingofAwesomness14 10 месяцев назад +5

    glad to see this channel growing, keep up the good work!

  • @DW-nb2zc
    @DW-nb2zc 11 месяцев назад +15

    Dude got high on his own flatulence

    • @ZeroResurrected
      @ZeroResurrected 9 месяцев назад +1

      Typical commie. Drunk off of own purifying elixir as Bill Maher would say

  • @ExcaliburForge
    @ExcaliburForge 10 месяцев назад +14

    "Go ahead and shoot, you will only kill a man." Che's last words

    • @dunnywatson2186
      @dunnywatson2186 10 месяцев назад +2

      Martyr! Long live Che

    • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122
      @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@dunnywatson2186 He was a bad guy.

    • @Spacecowboyyy
      @Spacecowboyyy 9 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 Vast majority of political figures throughout history have blood on their hands for example George Washington, Lyndon B Johnson, Obama, George Bush, all involved in wars where thousands if not millions were killed so what makes them any different than someone like Guevara?

    • @muhammadashshiddiq8752
      @muhammadashshiddiq8752 9 месяцев назад

      "Well, we just need to kill the man anyway"

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@dunnywatson2186 Oh he's living long all right, in hell

  • @prof.nicollas519
    @prof.nicollas519 11 месяцев назад +2

    Nice material! Congrats to your search and images gathered! Impossible to not love your videos my friend!

  • @SHGames97
    @SHGames97 11 месяцев назад +3

    Eagerly awaiting another AMAZING documentary! Thank you

  • @eugenedreyer4805
    @eugenedreyer4805 11 месяцев назад +14

    Excellent summary. His book on the subject is well worth reading.

  • @amadoujallow8407
    @amadoujallow8407 11 месяцев назад +3

    Wonderful as always. Keep up the good work

  • @mcamara488
    @mcamara488 11 месяцев назад +2

    Amazing one again. Thank you very much. 🙏🏿

  • @DouglasJWalker
    @DouglasJWalker 11 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent work my man. Keep it up

  • @antifazisbonifaz6964
    @antifazisbonifaz6964 11 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent work, a perfect analysis of the situation 😐👌👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

  • @danielarevalo6222
    @danielarevalo6222 11 месяцев назад +13

    Thanks for the video. Che’s best performance was in the Cuban revolution. As government minister and and in the Congo and Bolivia their was missteps and difficulties that led to failure. Thank you once again

    • @thomasmyers9128
      @thomasmyers9128 11 месяцев назад +9

      I think his best was getting killed in South America….. or wherever he was…. simply perfect 😳

    • @BildoTrip-eu3lb
      @BildoTrip-eu3lb 10 месяцев назад +7

      His best performance was getting killed

    • @dunnywatson2186
      @dunnywatson2186 10 месяцев назад +1

      Martyr! Long Live Che!

  • @khaledal-kassimi7121
    @khaledal-kassimi7121 11 месяцев назад

    Good evening, I appreciate you including my article in your video.

  • @Peterblack12
    @Peterblack12 11 месяцев назад +19

    In short, copy and paste doesn't work everywhere. It may work in countries with cultural and linguistic parallels not in completely alien countries.
    It was the same with Christianity in East Asia and democracy in the Middle East.
    Che suffered from a mental impediment I have named the arrogance of achievement. It causes one to dismiss obvious information or otherwise translate actionable information into something that it is theoretical. Generally this occurs because the information he is able to act on, doesn't make sense to the person deciphering it because they lean on their expertise or experience much moreso than their imagination.
    For example, if troops feel like they cannot go into battle without their magic, it is the generals imperative that he correctly assess this to be a morale issue and address accordingly.
    A lacking general will become bogged down in the theology of trying to prove that magic is not real or otherwise unconcerned or dismissive about the troops concerns. He will be unable to address any issue he does not completely understand AND agree with because in his mind he is accomplished and already has the blueprint for success.
    It's the arrogance of achievement.
    It's the old, " i been doing this for 30 odd years ain't no tinhorner gone tell me what to do"
    When in reality if they wanted magic give them magic, it's not magic they are asking for but a morale booster. A good leader is able to interpret all these things for what they truly are. Or he surrounds himself in areas where he is weak

    • @alihenderson5910
      @alihenderson5910 10 месяцев назад +1

      It's far simpler than that, he believed in Marxism, history's biggest delusion.

    • @treehugger3615
      @treehugger3615 10 месяцев назад +2

      More like arrogance of the intellect. Too much books and theories.

    • @august_3rd
      @august_3rd 10 месяцев назад

      How can you say if they needed magic just give them magic that wasn't the only problem what about the liquor and sexing they were doing he knew it wasn't just about belief and laziness he realized they didn't want to fight. Stop making excuses for them and just call it what it is

    • @Peterblack12
      @Peterblack12 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@august_3rd No different than what Alexander's men did on the March to Mesopotamia bactria and India.
      This can be observed in his speech he gave where he even talked about this. He talked about how they gambled away whole villages and things of this nature. Drunk themselves to death some of them. Partied, sexed it up they were doing the same thing the only difference was Alexander the Great was a great general and Che was not.
      stop making excuses for poor generals

    • @expertalpha411
      @expertalpha411 10 месяцев назад

      Magic was just one aspect. How do you motivate people to dig trenches if they believe "holes are for dead people," considering how tactically important trenches are during warfare?

  • @hotstepper887
    @hotstepper887 9 месяцев назад +1

    Your videos really are very good indeed, as is your English, really enjoyable explanations of some of these rulers.

  • @matthewreinke1569
    @matthewreinke1569 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for your great videos!

  • @michaelpowell-ngatchou6274
    @michaelpowell-ngatchou6274 11 месяцев назад +33

    Fidel Castro wasn't even fully on board with him. There was a lot of naivety on Che's part to think all these people would be happy to see him.

    • @thekerbeyhouse1920
      @thekerbeyhouse1920 10 месяцев назад +5

      He was a strong believer in his own greatness.

    • @michaelpowell-ngatchou6274
      @michaelpowell-ngatchou6274 10 месяцев назад +1

      Socialist Regimes always start with someone like him and then become some sort of fascist state.

    • @DanielMorales-gu3my
      @DanielMorales-gu3my 3 месяца назад +2

      Never underestimate the power of the ego maniac

  • @francoismartin4405
    @francoismartin4405 10 месяцев назад +5

    Very interesting to discover that Kabila was in the rebellion since that period. This is informative indeed.

  • @tombrunila2695
    @tombrunila2695 11 месяцев назад +23

    Ernesto Che Guevara had a habit of bad mouthing the Soviet Union in congresses in developing countries. The Soviets got tired of this and put its relationship with Cuba on hold. Fidel Castro was told that he had to rein in Guevara and make him stop attacking the Soviet Union. It was the condition for normalizing the relationship between the countries. Castro sent Guevara to Bolivia to start a revolution. And surprise surprise the Bolivians caught him and had him shot! And the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union was normalized as if there had never been a Guevara causing problems.

    • @rapatacush3
      @rapatacush3 11 месяцев назад +1

      No even commies like commies

    • @treehugger3615
      @treehugger3615 10 месяцев назад +1

      If you study the relationship between the URSS, China and indochina during the cold war, you will realize Communism means nothing when national interests are at stake.

    • @james5332
      @james5332 10 месяцев назад +1

      Reminds me a bit of what happened to Michael Collins.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@rapatacush3
      Cambodia and Vietnam
      Ethiopia and Somalia
      USSR and China
      China and Vietnam
      Albania and Yugoslavia

  • @googleuser9009
    @googleuser9009 11 месяцев назад +35

    The man was a narcissist and vastly overestimated his abilities while he underestimated how hard it would be.

  • @thepipedreamer89
    @thepipedreamer89 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great documentary!

  • @kennethblachlyjr3040
    @kennethblachlyjr3040 11 месяцев назад

    This channel is awesome and bad arse!!!

  • @afriworia5020
    @afriworia5020 11 месяцев назад +30

    Read the book last year, I understood that Africans are still behaving the same or even worse than what Che described. He washed his hands and threw the towel, and I don't blame him. Overall Africans lacked focus and determination.
    Am definitely sure it won't get better anytime soon.

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 11 месяцев назад +26

      Unfortunately, I agree. I'm an African living in Europe, and every time I go back to my country to visit and contribute to development in any little way I can, I'm always frustrated by the attitude of people, even the young and educated ones. Many of us are religious/spiritual almost to the point of superstition, we complain about corruption and tribalism yet do the same things ourselves, etc. We want change, but aren't ready to actually create the change. We instead leave it to God to do it for us, lol

    • @sifisokaula1870
      @sifisokaula1870 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@beno1129you just hit it on the nail

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 11 месяцев назад

      @@beno1129 AFRICAN MEN lack focus and drive. Give over the power to the women and you'll see changes. African men were never meant to lead anybody, they are too selfish and greedy and lack sexual discipline

    • @Wolverine22734
      @Wolverine22734 10 месяцев назад

      True they are not trustworthy people. in. all x

    • @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding
      @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding 10 месяцев назад

      Least racist leftist.

  • @kevin_czirchiringa834
    @kevin_czirchiringa834 11 месяцев назад +3

    I am yet to watch this in full but the headline really left me with a bitter taste in the mouth.

  • @Diogenes30
    @Diogenes30 11 месяцев назад

    great creation of awesome content

  • @jakegarvin7634
    @jakegarvin7634 11 месяцев назад +23

    Committed Anti-Communist, but you gotta hand it to Cuba, you can't say they weren't about that life

    • @alexhamilton3421
      @alexhamilton3421 11 месяцев назад

      My guy if you’re a committed anti communist then you should read what the CIA had to say about communist countries, they outright admitted that the idea of dictatorships and genocide is totally fabricated and say communist countries have more access to food than most Americans, this coming from communisms biggest enemy.

    • @thabiso5792
      @thabiso5792 11 месяцев назад +8

      Always punching above their weight, miraculous country!

    • @kirkkeeling9436
      @kirkkeeling9436 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@alexhamilton3421 Have you ever seen a cuban grocery store?

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 10 месяцев назад

      @@kirkkeeling9436
      Or a Romanian one under Ceausescu?

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 10 месяцев назад

      @@alexhamilton3421
      But how long did that last? The problem with communism is that whatever prosperity it does achieve is often short-lived. Every other communist country back then relied on the USSR to stay afloat and either collapsed or adopted capitalist economic reforms once the Soviet aid dried up.

  • @mekhtoub
    @mekhtoub 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks. Very well done...

  • @petechau9616
    @petechau9616 10 месяцев назад +5

    Little known now after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba the US sent many Cubans from the invasion force to fight Communism in Africa. I know because my Uncle was one of them.

    • @alwayscurious3357
      @alwayscurious3357 10 месяцев назад +1

      Isn't one of the guys that got Che in his demise one of the Cubans too? Forgot where I read it from but man, talk about some sweet retribution.

    • @petechau9616
      @petechau9616 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@alwayscurious3357 Yes I forget his name but he was one of the leaders who organized the expedition that eventually captured Che. Felix was the first name I forget his last name.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 18 дней назад +1

      @@petechau9616
      Felix Rodriguez?

    • @petechau9616
      @petechau9616 18 дней назад +1

      @@shauncameron8390 Yes you're correct.

    • @petechau9616
      @petechau9616 18 дней назад

      @@shauncameron8390 I don't know if Rodriguez was part of the Africa operation but I know that after the failed Bay of Pigs operation the CIA simply recruited the Cubans they had trained for the failed Bay of Pigs Operation and shifted them to Africa to fight the budding Communist movement in Africa.

  • @BLOCKBOI3RD
    @BLOCKBOI3RD 11 месяцев назад +3

    I love these documentaries

  • @kelvinbenny2001
    @kelvinbenny2001 11 месяцев назад

    Excellent
    Do a video on Organization, Arms, Financing and allies (domestic and foriegn) of UNITA in Angola

  • @heronjoan5871
    @heronjoan5871 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent Work! LoveLy FiLm .. ThanK YoU ! bklny,

  • @AshutoshBharadwaj
    @AshutoshBharadwaj 11 месяцев назад +3

    Very clear and well researched!

  • @danielbianconi6441
    @danielbianconi6441 9 месяцев назад

    I love the opening music in this. What is it?

  • @ptolemeeselenion1542
    @ptolemeeselenion1542 11 месяцев назад +2

    "I can only imagine the frustration of Guevara, a commited communist-atheist, when his Congolese troops told him they relied on magic." - Some commentator.
    Yeah. And rightly so, had you reading Che's biography of his journey to Congo *entirely* .
    He'd leave Africa, completely shocked by some of rhe things he has seen. I mean, yeah, there definitively has a lot of superstitions going around as a Congolese myself.
    But witnessing a bare-chested Simba revolutionary soldier next to you boasting about being invicible as enemy bullets are literally bouncing off his body and seemingly of some skin-close forcefield??? Guevara was so beffudled that after leaving Africa, he was talking about the General Nicholas Olemga the same way Marvel fans speaks about Professor X.

  • @gregorygermann5975
    @gregorygermann5975 11 месяцев назад +7

    If you can't grow decent facial hair, be clean shaven .what is with these activists?

  • @miahconnell23
    @miahconnell23 7 месяцев назад +1

    Guevara was killed in Bolivia in late 1967. I wonder how things might have turned out differentlyIf if he could’ve taken some time and slowly stepped forward to address Angola, Guinea-Bissau, & Cabo Verde. The efforts and results of Almícar Cabral’s anti-colonialism were (and are) considerable. A special sort of Revolution happened in Portugal in April, 1974: ‘Colonial holdings are quite expensive both in terms of soldiers’ lives, and in national treasure as well. Those that have taken up arms agains Portuguese colonial control have made their wants and intentions clearly understood. How about we Portugueses try something different from the British, and the Americans ? How about we step back and choose not to fight over this, & how about we we de-invest from colonial occupation ?’ I would very much like to know Guevara’s thoughts regarding the Carnation revolution. He almost made it to that epoch. I suspect that spending time with Almícar Cabral would have been good for Guevara’s thinking, his writing, and his soul. And to be able to participate in some revolutionary successes (beyond Cuba) would’ve been good for him as a human, and it would’ve been good for anti-exploitation & anti-colonialism movement and thought, world-wide, at-large.

  • @nanaosafo-bosompem5286
    @nanaosafo-bosompem5286 10 месяцев назад +9

    Its sad to read comments of people who never read the true intention of a revolutionist and rather call names. Che was againt imperialism and he wasnt ignorant about the situation in Africa or Bolivia. He was betrayed just as most leaders are when fighting for a good cause. Remember, nice guys dont always win

    • @vito7428
      @vito7428 9 месяцев назад +3

      Che was a narcissist who gave himself the title of exporter of revolutions and complimented his allies' incompetence with his own ignorance to properly wage a people's war in the places he operated rather than just hoping the dice rolls line up every time for another miracle like Cuba

    • @ZeroResurrected
      @ZeroResurrected 9 месяцев назад +2

      Che was an absolute imperialist himself

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 5 месяцев назад +1

      But didn't mind Cuba being under Soviet imperialism.

    • @nanaosafo-bosompem5286
      @nanaosafo-bosompem5286 5 месяцев назад

      @@shauncameron8390 it was like the enemy of my enemy is my friend kind of situation

    • @jelly.212
      @jelly.212 3 месяца назад

      ​@@vito7428of course it's an anime pfp. YWNBAW

  • @donairguitar
    @donairguitar 11 месяцев назад

    hello. I was wondering if the photographs in this video are copyrighted, and if so does their use in the video fall under Fair Use?

  • @victortan9086
    @victortan9086 11 месяцев назад +2

    Commenting to feed the youtube algorithm

  • @johnandresen6560
    @johnandresen6560 11 месяцев назад +1

    I enjoyed your presentation except for the piano music which was too loud. It was very hard to focus on what you were saying.

  • @KanyeWestLover2022
    @KanyeWestLover2022 11 месяцев назад

    Idea: A video about Yakubu Gowon

  • @mujunironald220
    @mujunironald220 10 месяцев назад +1

    He didn't fail in congo but congo failed him and till this day congo has never developed a backbone to be self accountable for their own failures.

  • @AlaBnt
    @AlaBnt 9 месяцев назад

    Very nice stories of African combine with Dr chea.your under slow music is bit disturbing some can't hear you properly if you make it more low or no music will be so nice.

  • @alwayscurious3357
    @alwayscurious3357 11 месяцев назад +2

    Isnt this the campaign where he faced off against an accountant named Mike Hoare?

  • @august_3rd
    @august_3rd 10 месяцев назад +6

    Hearing that they were thinking about magic , fuccing and liquor made me mad as shi so i can only imagine how he felt 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ shi broke my heart to hear that

  • @ralphchimbaira1755
    @ralphchimbaira1755 11 месяцев назад +2

    Terrific

  • @Amfortas
    @Amfortas 11 месяцев назад +51

    Communists be like _"It's not imperialism when we do it!"_

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 11 месяцев назад

      China uplifted way more people than the West with less atrocities. China is becoming a leading superpower today while the West has failed in Africa having been giving AID for 70 years

    • @mkhuselimazungula6345
      @mkhuselimazungula6345 11 месяцев назад

      Do you even know the meaning of communism? The means of production go to the people. The revolutions sought to establish communist states. Capitalism seeks to privatized the means of production thereby enabling wealth to be exported at the exploitation of the colonies to the empirial core.

    • @controversial1994
      @controversial1994 10 месяцев назад +9

      There’s a difference between imperialism & internationalism.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@suzygirl1843
      LOL

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@mkhuselimazungula6345
      And care to name one communist nation that did such a thing without bloodshed or bankruptcy within a couple of generations?

  • @CARL_093
    @CARL_093 11 месяцев назад

    Very interesting

  • @hubertbailey2225
    @hubertbailey2225 10 месяцев назад +3

    Che proved that we cannot free anyone who don’t have the consciousness to free themselves.

    • @vito7428
      @vito7428 9 месяцев назад +2

      No Che proved that just because you succeeded in one revolution,that doesn't mean you can start labelling yourself as the'exporter of revolution'and expect your means to perfectly work everywhere else

    • @RDCFemmes
      @RDCFemmes 5 месяцев назад

      I am Congolese and agree. Sadly the armed forced still has the same mentality, they drink, rape and loot the population they should protect and think that magic power will help them get rid of the M23.

    • @mugiwara9507
      @mugiwara9507 3 месяца назад

      @@vito7428it proved both of you guy’s points

  • @sniper101kalenda7
    @sniper101kalenda7 11 месяцев назад +1

    You are best

  • @a.c6761
    @a.c6761 10 месяцев назад +2

    Dyed hair people be like : Fake News 🤬 report this channel

  • @alphagimba3315
    @alphagimba3315 11 месяцев назад

    Please what is your name ? I know your voice let me know your name please...kudos!

  • @cruzmizzl
    @cruzmizzl Месяц назад

    When asked about the Congolese mission by capturing Bolivian Capt., he told "It was a failure, they're still hanging off the trees over there."

  • @UserDontiAS
    @UserDontiAS 9 месяцев назад +3

    Long live 💪, Che

  • @mamasally707
    @mamasally707 11 месяцев назад +2

    I like history very much I'm grateful to your video to hear what happened in the past that those days people believed in witchcraft . I'm very sorry for Che vuevara that he was executed

  • @RDCFemmes
    @RDCFemmes 5 месяцев назад

    The irony is the ppl Kabila was fighting, are the same people who used him to overthrow Mobutu then killed him to place his stepson who isn't even Congolese as the president.

  • @secular13
    @secular13 9 месяцев назад +2

    These executions in Cuba by Guevara were far from extra judicial and were not on innocent victims Bad Empanada did very good video on it based on sources.

  • @AndersenPratte1
    @AndersenPratte1 11 месяцев назад +1

    Clearly this video didn't mention that Che wrote all of his actions in the Congo with his cadres in a book called Congo Diary : The Story of Che Guevara's Lost Year in Africa
    Clearly this video doesn't mention anything from Che's diary nor there is no link in the description to read the book so I find this video 50/50.

    • @Amfortas
      @Amfortas 11 месяцев назад +2

      Clearly you're an incel filling his head with leftist nonsense because women won't talk to you

    • @heretolearn5084
      @heretolearn5084 11 месяцев назад +1

      😂😂😂 go make your own video we'll wait

    • @ze_kangz932
      @ze_kangz932 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@heretolearn5084He has a valid point. African youtubeurs should be more scrupulous, especially those dealing with our history.

  • @user-cd4bx6uq1y
    @user-cd4bx6uq1y 10 месяцев назад +2

    This channel has African in the name and produces high quality videos. Only 77k views on what's probably better then most videos

  • @scottfay3553
    @scottfay3553 10 месяцев назад +12

    Che was a monster

    • @GooseGumlizzard
      @GooseGumlizzard 10 месяцев назад +1

      and he had the shittiest beard in history

    • @-exodus-_
      @-exodus-_ 10 месяцев назад +1

      rafal gan ganowicz had the right idea about him he was a mercenary as much as he was yet since he dressed it up people now mainly on the left hand side of the political isle think fit to deem him some sort of saint and overlook some of his more colourful beliefs like his opinions and what he did to homosexuals.

    • @HolyCity2012
      @HolyCity2012 10 месяцев назад

      the founding fathers of the United States were slave owning, genocidal, child fuckers
      Che fought and died for the poor and the marginalized

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 5 месяцев назад

      @@HolyCity2012
      Comrade, please!

  • @hubertbailey2225
    @hubertbailey2225 9 месяцев назад +2

    Get it right please Che did never failed in the Congo or South America. It was the weakness and unconsciousness of those people that failed. A revolutionary can’t free anyone. A revolutionary can advise and train one how to free themselves.

  • @user-ww5qw8jd3b
    @user-ww5qw8jd3b 10 месяцев назад +1

    Kabila was fighting Mobutu for 33 years

  • @rumpelstiltskn5574
    @rumpelstiltskn5574 8 месяцев назад +1

    ...Guevara ought to have never taken the job to begin with! You can see the fruits of their labour 😂😂😂😂

  • @synaestesia-bg3ew
    @synaestesia-bg3ew 9 месяцев назад

    I never knew this

  • @nutritiousnut
    @nutritiousnut 11 месяцев назад +7

    i love a happy ending

  • @kingcush5252
    @kingcush5252 9 месяцев назад

    YOU CAN NOT TRUST NO ONE

  • @virgiljjacas1229
    @virgiljjacas1229 10 месяцев назад

    First attempt from the Castro's to eliminate him. His open critical opinion of Cuba's industry is very well known.

  • @MrJohhnycongo
    @MrJohhnycongo 2 месяца назад

    (Paid) Rebels are still fighting in the Congo (Zaïr) today! Why had the Gospel of Peace not reached the DRC?

  • @ceebrown8157
    @ceebrown8157 11 месяцев назад +1

    One defeat after another with this country and so many others on the Continent. Although it seem as if there’s only one direction that they can go, I won’t hold my breath!

  • @user-hr6uk7mn5o
    @user-hr6uk7mn5o 10 месяцев назад

    😊 this is a very good commentary and documentary and I'm glad somebody brought this up when the veiled when the Belgium King Leonardo DiCaprio took over Belgium and abused abused mentally physically enslaved and mutilated the children women and men on this island in this country for this year plight of rubber trees and different natural resources okay he was the worst he was sort of like the impaler he was the worst to people of color and when they used up all of their resources and they left the Congolese with no support no help just devastation and did not offer any kinds of means the weapons or food or assistance you see white man has always been revered and other countries especially especially Africa because they're always interested and countries were people that are melanated reside and I could never understand that out of every single country in the world white people in Europeans are always and always have been interested and places where melanated people are native to 41 wherever melanated people are you know there is a good chance of some truth in history also you know that we were gifted with resources everywhere we go so there's always something that you can steal on their weatherby people or resources Belgium abused the Congolese like no other like no other you have to really read the story and they gained an abundance of wealth from the Congolese people

  • @chizobaugwuanyi262
    @chizobaugwuanyi262 11 месяцев назад

    The most celebrated picture Che.....

  • @Mynameshere1310
    @Mynameshere1310 11 месяцев назад

    Why does all of his photos look like chu by Tim Pool?!

  • @phanx0m924
    @phanx0m924 10 месяцев назад +2

    Good 👏🏻. Glad he couldn't ruin another country!

    • @bowieupland6112
      @bowieupland6112 10 месяцев назад +1

      You can't really ruin a hellhole.

    • @MaggieKeizai
      @MaggieKeizai 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@bowieupland6112 he gave it his best shot.

  • @jamesmordovancey517
    @jamesmordovancey517 10 месяцев назад +1

    To bad that the accent makes this difficult to understand. Throw in the music and it's exasperating.

  • @SgtRocko
    @SgtRocko 11 месяцев назад +53

    My relatives living in Argentine always find it amusing when Che's mission to Africa is mentioned, since he was notoriously racist. His "lack of knowledge of local customs and spirituality" was wilful.

    • @archivedumaroc
      @archivedumaroc 11 месяцев назад

      He was there to expand the communist "portfolio". The communists and capitalists were playing Pokémon Go with countries, any catch was a good catch. The only difference is that at the beginning of it communists were foolish enough to believe in their cause.

    • @rentoshine2038
      @rentoshine2038 11 месяцев назад +4

      👌👍👏

    • @placesandspaces3489
      @placesandspaces3489 11 месяцев назад

      So, why was he fighting alongside people he hated? Money, power, recognition. Whatever. He was there, fighting. We KNOW what Argentina did to its black citizens, so your and your relatives' description is "white-washed" and is not necessarily truthful. I. Don't believe anything coming from the mouth of a European or European wannabe.

    • @footballhighlights7222
      @footballhighlights7222 11 месяцев назад +13

      @@placesandspaces3489 I think this is a practical example of history manipulation. The image on Che was manipulated to suit different antagonist and population..esp by the western media

    • @BLOCKBOI3RD
      @BLOCKBOI3RD 11 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@richmondapore888it's in his writings on how he really felt about Africans.

  • @mattwilson1845
    @mattwilson1845 10 месяцев назад

    Did he have any successes?

  • @ReneLagulao
    @ReneLagulao 9 месяцев назад

    Stop the music pls
    To loud.

  • @JAMWITCH
    @JAMWITCH 4 месяца назад

    Sounds like they failed Che more than Che failing them.

  • @daviddash9947
    @daviddash9947 10 месяцев назад

    He tried to help the Africans but the Africans refused to him themselves.

  • @user-dp8ie2yg6j
    @user-dp8ie2yg6j 7 месяцев назад

    جيفارة رجل الثورة في العالم بمعني الكلمة

  • @klubmusix3848
    @klubmusix3848 9 месяцев назад

    it no movies

  • @rinzo2009
    @rinzo2009 11 месяцев назад +13

    Comrade Che should have studied the terrain before jumping into the fray.
    It pains me that Che didn't live long enough to see Comrade Sankara.

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Месяц назад +1

      It pains me to see that Che isn't with us today... I wanted him to see how many communist countries have switched over to capitalism to prove how much of a pathetic failure the ideology that he fought for is.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 18 дней назад

      @@cashewnuttel9054
      Or resigned themselves to being isolated kleptocracies.

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 18 дней назад

      @@shauncameron8390 Why can't you pro-communists accept that nobody wants to work for the same pay? That nobody wants to work for the betterment of humanity? They want to work for the betterment of themselves! That no matter what happens, there will always be rich and poor people?
      Why can't you get that through your thick skulls? What's wrong with you? Are you really that naive? Are you really that out of touch with reality? Are you young, is that it?

  • @Joe3pops
    @Joe3pops 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for the real historical facts. In Hollywood's two part series entitled Che, his sojourn into the Congo is totally omitted. And the public disclosure by Fidel of his letter is a kind of stab in his back. I suggest Fidel thought because Che was really Venezulan, he was disposable.

    • @scrimmybingus8972
      @scrimmybingus8972 10 месяцев назад +1

      Under communism, everyone is disposable.

  • @ntuntualfred429
    @ntuntualfred429 3 месяца назад

    Besides everything that made his mission a failure, he remains a noble man who had noble causes. Rest in peace che

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 18 дней назад

      LOL. Not with the ignoble means he used to achieve said "noble" causes.

  • @SemorreButte
    @SemorreButte 7 месяцев назад

    Omg you really need to turn down or completely remove that piano music

  • @ericmaniraho2260
    @ericmaniraho2260 10 месяцев назад

    Gongoleses ate the the even 60 year passed.

  • @moffatphiri3167
    @moffatphiri3167 10 месяцев назад

    The first mistake was him going to enter the territory without first concurring with the head (Kabila) and not taking into consideration the seismic activities of cia...bungling machinations..,.