Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Dean Esmay points out some very interesting original documents being published The Real Cuba. Dean:
Dig this amazing Blogosphere exclusive: The folks at The Real Cuba are publishing, for the first time ever, what look to be hand-written notes by Che and Fidel just before their communist revolution in Cuba, as they wrote them to the Trinidad family of cigar-makers who thought those guys were simply anti-Batista rebels as opposed to Soviet stooges. You can see the notes and translations here:
PUTTING AN END TO THE MYTH THAT THE 'CUBAN REVOLUTION' WAS AN UPRISING OF THE POOR AGAINST THE RICH
They're currently working on validating these documents with experts at the University of Miami, who are taking them very seriously. If they're legit, they put a whole new spin on Fidel and Che--mostly as liars...
Recall that in those days, while Fidel and Che were still up in the mountains, they were hiding their true hard-core communist nature and duping those who thought the revolution was a true democratic effort.
The "it was only nationalism" theme is repeated and repeated by Stalinist and Maoist apologists. It was used even in the case of Pol Pot's reign and in the lesser but still atrocity laden reign of Uncle Ho (who supported, for example, Stalin against the more nationalist and independently inclined Tito in the case of Yugoslovia - and this during Uncle Ho's tenure within Stalin's Soviet orb).
But dissemblers and apologists repeat the "innocent nationalist" theme over and over and over. Repetition, once again, in lieu of a penetrating and probative look into the looking glass of Leftist deceit and contempt for any thoroughgoing historical uncovering.