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The most-quoted Fidel Castro line from the Cuban Missile Crisis is fake. In a 1992 NYT op-ed, Khrushchev's aide Burlatsky put these words in quotation marks as Castro's: "I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution." That sentence appears nowhere in Fidel's letter. Here is what Fidel actually wrote on October 26, 1962: "There are two possible variants: the first and most probable is a [US] air attack against certain objectives with the limited aim of destroying them; the second, less probable but still possible, is an invasion... If the imperialists invade Cuba with the aim of occupying it, the danger that such aggressive policy poses for humanity is so great that after such an invasion the Soviet Union must never allow the circumstances in which the imperialists could launch the first nuclear strike against it." Two scenarios. The conditional applies only to invasion-to-occupy. No first strike from Cuba. Retaliation only. And only after US troops land. The Soviet translators inexplicably rendered Fidel's word for "invade" as "attack." His careful distinction collapsed. "If they invade to occupy us" became readable as "if they attack us." Khrushchev had already decided to withdraw the missiles when the mistranslated letter reached Moscow. He wrote back accusing Castro of proposing a first strike - and used the accusation to justify withdrawing the missiles over Cuba's head. Western historiography simply repeated the Soviet mistranslation and Khrushchev's tale. Nobody read the Spanish. Both powers needed Castro to look like a reckless adventurist. Moscow to cover its betrayal. Washington to justify the siege, the assassinations, the sixty years of war. A mistranslation became convenient - to everyone except Cuba

Venezuela proves that you need more than a national popular militia to maintain your sovereignty. Stalin’s purges have been utterly vindicated. Maduro allowing those around him to consolidate enough power to remove him is why Venezuela has become a US puppet state.

Anyone justifying selling out your country is misguided US does offer “comply or die” choice to these leaders But places like Venezuela have an armed working class ready to fight There’s no excuse not to lead your military & people in armed struggle to defend their sovereignty

BOLIVARian Revolution named after the pan-latin american president of Gran Colombia justifies deporting their former minister to a US torture cell by the fact that he’s Colombian, which they expect us to believe they didn’t know despite him never hiding it