Food Demand Quotes
He was a radical revolutionary who immediately saw the fundamental weakness in the so-called People’s Army of the Congo. Having observed the enmity amongst the peasants to the Red Army in the Russian Revolution, Mao Tse Tung developed the model revolutionary army in China where soldiers were not only forbidden from harassing or stealing from the peasants, but were ordered to provide labor and help with their farm work and the like. Che and Fidel Castro had a similarly popular army in the mountains of Cuba, but in Congo Che found a corrupt and abusive army calling itself a people’s army but exploiting and abusing the people—unfortunately a pattern in most sub-Saharan African armies.