For the first year of Castro’s glorious revolution Che Guevara was his main executioner—a combination Beria and Himmler, with a major
exception: Che’s slaughter of (bound and gagged) Cubans (Che was himself an Argentine) exceeded Heinrich Himmler’s prewar slaughter of
Germans—to scale, that is.
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Having read a great deal about early history of modern Cuba, I have never understood people wearing the Che T-shirt so proudly.
Would these same people wear the image of Himmler or Hitler so proudly?
Cuba was a nation of 6.5 million in 1959. Within three months in power, Castro and Che had shamed the Nazi prewar incarceration and murder rate.
One defector claims that Che signed 500 death warrants, another says over 600. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega, who knew Che as early as 1954, writes in
his book “Yo Soy El Che!” that Guevara sent 1,897 men to the firing squad. In his book “Che Guevara: A Biography,” Daniel James writes that
Che himself admitted to ordering “several thousand” executions during the first few years of the Castro regime.
Fidel Castro was a thorn in the side of the US for a very very long time. He was the worlds longest-serving and most successful dictator:
Call Fidel everything in the book (as I have) but don’t call him stupid. Outside of his efficiency at the mass-murder of the defenseless,
Guevara’s attributes—his inane twaddle and idiotic projects—must have driven Castro nuts. The one place where I can’t fault Fidel, the one
place I actually empathize with him, is in his craving to rid himself of this insufferable Argentine jackass.
Do a little research on the Hollywood hero Che Guevara and next time you see anyone wearing a Che t-shirt ... laugh.
Che - assassin, coward, imbecile.
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