Also Liu Shaoqi apparently
Maoists have some of the worst takes imaginable
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I could be wrong, but from what I read from a biography of Che Guevara, he and Castro were both communists or communist-sympathizers from when they first met. Castro just kept it more on the down low so that the U.S. wouldn’t be as eager to help Batista.
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Yeah, from what I understand, he always sympathized with communism but was also smart enough to not espouse it openly until he knew he could firmly defend the revolution. He actually got quite a bit of support from the US in overthrowing Batista, which made them all the more pissed when they found out they had actually been helping a communist.