Fidel Castro Quotes
Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
Castro, Fidel, and Ignacio Ramonet. Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography. Scribner, 2008.
He moved to the U. S. after these events.
Vladimir Lenin. While Lenin was of this view, Stalin and other hard liners disagreed. They not only imposed their brand of communism on their own people via force with terrible consequences for any dissidents, but the Soviet Army imposed Communism on most of the states of Eastern Europe, and those states in turn used their Armies and secret police to impose it on their own citizens.
Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
Vladimir Lenin. Although Plekhanov was the intellectual giant of Russian communism, he died only two years into the revolution. He was never happy with some of the pragmatic compromises the younger firebrand communist leaders were making from their ideals. By the time he passed away, most, especially the younger, communist leaders like Stalin saw him as an old obstructionist and he was never celebrated as a hero by the communists. It was Lenin and older leaders like Trotsky who appreciated him. See {590462}.
In 1938 he was executed on trumped up changes by fellow Communist Party members:
Commenting on political parties in Cuba:
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz better known internationally as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
