Thread by @yclbritain

October 8 is known in Cuba as Day of the Heroic Guerilla, where they celebrate and honour the life of revolutionary guerilla fighter, Che Guevara 🇨🇺🚩 #CheViva

55 years ago in 1967, Ernesto ‘Che‘ Guevara was captured while organising a revolution in Bolivia, before...
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being executed the following day.

Che had secretly and mysteriously left Cuba a few years earlier, renouncing his official titles and his honorary Cuban citizenship, in order to help fight and progress other revolutions around the world.

However he met his end after...
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being captured by Bolivian Special Forces, with help from the CIA. After a failed interrogation, a nervous soldier was sent in to kill him, hesitating in doing so, to which Che famously responded with:
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are...
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only going to kill a man.”

So the legend was born, and Che was immortalised as a martyr for revolutionaries and organised workers around the world. For they had killed a man, but in doing so they had ignited the flames of his ideas which could never again be extinguished.
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"The Young Communist League must define itself with a single word: vanguard. You, comrades, must be the vanguard of all movements. The first to be ready to make the sacrifices that the Revolution...
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demands, whatever the nature of these sacrifices. The first in work. The first in study. The first in the defence of the country." - Che Guevara
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#CheVive #CheGuevara #Cuba