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1926–2016 Cuba
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and communist revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 to 2011, Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. A Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, Castro also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011.
Also known as: Castro, Castro Fidel, Castro, Fidel
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
History Will Absolve Me (1953)
Capitalism is a system based on blind, destructive and tyrannical laws imposed on the human species.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.
Marx and Lenin represent precisely the two human personalities that will mark the passage between prehistory and the history of mankind.
Democratic Korea, its leaders and its people will always live in our feelings of revolutionaries, patriots and fighters for the triumph of socialism.
Marxism-Leninism is the richest doctrine in ideas of justice, freedom, equality, fraternity among men.
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
To the accusation that Cuba wants to export its revolution, we reply: Revolutions are not exported, they are made by the people.
The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
Che brought the ideas of Marxism-Leninism to their freshest, purest, most revolutionary expression.
Capitalist and imperialist countries created the conditions for the rise of fascism in the world.
We believe that Marxism-Leninism is an incontestable truth.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Ho Chi Minh was, is and will be an eternal example.
Capitalism produces beasts, socialism produces men.
The figure of Lenin is a giant in history and his luminous ideas represents the common heritage of revolutionary fighters in every corner of the Earth.
Marxism-Leninism is the ideology of the working class, the most complete political doctrine, the most accurate explanation of social and historical problems.
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
I Won't Be a Dictator (1959)
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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