"If we are romantics, irredeemable idealists, we think of the impossible. Well, we'll answer a thousand and one times, and yes, we're just that kind of person. --Che Guevara.
Romance and ideals seem to be undefinable, and from the renaissance onwards, their meanings have been evaluated differently with the changes of the times. It was not until the twentieth century that they were given new life. This burst of vitality is Che Guevara, who is like the embodiment of romanticism, the founder of idealism.
In 1928, Che Guevara was born into an aristocratic family in Argentina, living a good life and eating and wearing. Unfortunately, Che Guevara suffered from severe asthma, which brought great trouble to his life and study, but Che Guevara did not give up on himself, and showed amazing perseverance and determination from an early age, talent, and hard work, che Guevara successfully entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine.
Such a rich origin and peaceful life had nothing to do with the revolution, but a special trip caused Che Guevara's life trajectory to deviate from its original trajectory.
In 1951, the 23-year-old Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado embarked on a journey to South America on a motorcycle. It was on this trip to South America that Che Guevara identified his true ideal of helping the poor people of Latin America out of their misery.
Che Guevara and his friends rode their motorcycles along the Andes from Argentina to Venezuela. When passing through the Amazon Valley in Peru, Che Guevara passes through a local leprosy village, and most people will be shocked when they hear leprosy and leave quickly. Instead of driving away, he and his friends chose to stay in the village as volunteers, helping the locals treat the epidemic free of charge.
On this trip, the beautiful scenery of South America contrasted strongly with the suffering life of the local people, and Che Guevara began to ponder human, social, economic and other issues. Che Guevara, who returned to Argentina, wrote in his diary: "I am dead, I am no longer me. This diary, later known as the Motorcycle Diary, recorded what Che Guevara and his friends saw and heard in South America.
This trip to South America isn't the only trip to Che Guevara. In 1953, Che Guevara embarked on the journey again and came to Guatemala. Guatemala was in a period of political turmoil, and many dictatorial revolutionaries wanted to launch a revolution to end the situation and save people from oppression.
Che Guevara managed to get to know this group of like-minded revolutionaries and joined them in the revolutionary struggle in Guatemala. The Guatemalan Revolution completely changed the fate of Ceg-Guevara.
In fact, the name Che Guevara was given in this revolution. Che Guevara' original name was Ernesto Guevara, and "che" is a sign of surprise in Spanish, and people use "che" to describe him because he always makes some unexpected moves.
Through this Guatemalan revolution, Che Guevara realized that medicine alone was not enough to save the suffering people, but only by launching a revolution to completely overthrow the dictatorship could the people and the fire and water be saved. He decided to abandon medicine and take up a gun to fight the dictatorship.
In 1955, Che Guevara met Castro in Mexico City, who was about to change his life. Castro was organizing a secret military organization called the July 26 Movement, whose goal was to return to Cuba and launch a revolution. Che Guevara joined the group, determined to help Castro and other members of the military group return to Cuba and overthrow the Batista dictatorship.
Although Che Guevara was a medical man, he had amazing perseverance and excellent military ability. He was brave and decisive on the battlefield, unflinching in the face of the enemy, ruthless and ruthless, and achieved excellent results one after another. These excellent qualities became particularly brilliant in the eyes of the revolutionaries, so that he was supported by more and more people, and Castro also admired Che Guevara and regarded him as his most trusted good comrade-in-arms.
It has to be said that Che Guevara has the talent of a military man, and he seems to be more handy on the battlefield than standing on the operating table. Fighting for his ideals is the source of all his motivation, and it is also the fundamental reason why he was able to give up everything willingly later.
The Cuban Revolution was finally victorious. In 1959, Che Guevara was granted the status of "Cuban Citizen" and successively served in the Cuban government as Inspector General of Prisons, Governor of the National Bank, and Minister of Industry. It is worth mentioning that during his political career, he did a world-famous event, that is, as a member of the Cuban negotiating delegation, he went to Moscow to sign the nuclear weapons program.
During his 14 years in power, Che Guevara, who held a high position, was very simple in his style of life, and did not have the superiority of Argentine aristocratic origins. Not only that, but he also works with working people on weekends, often volunteering in sugar cane factories and experiencing the hardships of labor firsthand. Even if Cuba established a sound political system, he would not forget that his original ideal was to help more poor people escape from suffering. Che Guevara spanned half his life and still put this ideal first. The blood never retreated in him, and he was still the "irredeemable idealist."
Che Guevara's departure from Cuba was triggered by serious political differences between him and Castro over political views on relations with the Soviet Union and assistance to the Third World. Compared with Che Guevara, Castro is a real realist, he stands on the opposite side of idealism, objectively examining the situation. Believing that he was no longer fit to continue his post in Cuba, Che Guevara resigned from his senior position in 1965 and flew out of Cuba for the Congo.
As if where there is suffering, Che Guevara goes. This is inseparable from his ideals. However, as a foreigner who came here to carry out the revolutionary movement, Ceguevara faced many problems. The first was the question of organization, at a time when very few of the Congolese guerrillas were able to accommodate Cegsh walla; and secondly, the question of leadership, despite che Guevara's extraordinary military capabilities.
But he had no formal military training, suffered from asthma, and all his ability to lead the guerrillas came from the experience of the Cuban Revolution. His leadership may have been fine, but the revolution failed. He later wrote in his "Congo Diary" that he believed that the failure of the revolution was largely due to the fact that the Congolese people were lazy and did not fight as bravely and well as the original Cuban Revolutionary Army.
The defeat of the Congolese revolution did not cause Che Guevara to abandon his ideals, even though he knew that the revolution could not succeed with a single blood, but also with many important factors, and he began to fight in other revolutionary corners of the world.
Faced with such a request, Che Guevara was unmoved by the fact that his former friend Castro learned of Che Guevara's situation and tried to ask him to return to Cuba, stating that he would not return to Cuba unless he went to Latin America again to carry out revolution. This is equivalent to abandoning the original high-ranking official Houlu for the second time, and once again strengthening the belief of always fighting for the ideal.
The war-torn era gave birth to countless revolutionaries, politicians, and military experts, and there were also countless revolutionaries who gradually blurred their hearts after completing the revolution, and the sweetness of the fruits of victory made them lose the bloodiness and fanaticism of the struggle they had fought. Che Guevara is special in that he never immerses himself in any glory of victory, refuses to become mediocre, and hates bureaucracy so much. He maintained his original vigor and marched towards a new revolution.
In 1966, Che Guevara came to Bolivia to carry out revolutionary activities. The revolution here is even more difficult, and the first thing to be solved is the question of the position. Unlike the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara did not have the support and support of a large number of local people in Bolivia, and only bolivian communists were able to find him a secret woods as a camp.
The camp is both a training ground and a base camp, and it is also necessary to be vigilant at all times to be detected by the Bolivian government. The revolution without a mass base struggled, and Che Guevara was soon discovered by the local government, which bluntly threatened to arrest and kill him. The Bolivian army lurking everywhere poses a direct threat to Ceg-Guevara, while hidden threats are creeping closer.
The United States Government, citing assistance to the Bolivian counter-revolution, sent professional military personnel to assist Bolivia in training its army. With the help of the U.S. government, Bolivia was instrumental in the arrests. One of the capture squads searched for Che Guevara's base camp. At this time, Che Guevara fell into a situation of internal and external troubles.
On the one hand, the assistance of the U.S. army was extremely threatening to the guerrillas in Che Guevara, and on the other hand, due to equipment problems, Che Guevara was unable to send distress signals to other revolutionary allies. Eventually he had to surrender to the Bolivian government under siege.
There are many descriptions of the scene at the time of Che Guevara's arrest, with varying details, and people are always keen to imagine how awkward and unbearable an idealist looks like when he bows his head in the face of reality. However, among the many descriptions, one thing mentioned in all accounts is that at the moment of death, Che Guevara always maintained the original sharpness, he did not look down, he looked directly at the muzzle of the gun, where the ideal end was.
Che Guevara was considered an outlaw in Bolivia, but in Cuba he was a hero unmatched. In 1967, when news of Che Guevara's death in Bolivia reached Cuba, Castro was shocked.
The two were politically divided, but Castro never thought that Che Guevara would die in this way, and he could not accept the sacrifice of his former comrades in a foreign country.
Two years ago, Ceguevara, who was preparing to leave Cuba, wrote a letter to Castro, in which he wrote: "Here I have left my best hopes as an entrepreneur, my dearest people... Leaving behind the people who treated me as a son; I will bring these things to a new battlefield, that is, the conviction that you have instilled in me, the revolutionary spirit of my people and the mood to fulfill my most sacred duty: to fight imperialism wherever it exists; all this is enough to inspire and heal any wounds. ”
Castro knew Che Guevara's personality and ideals, knew that he could not stop him, and all he could do today was to bring his friend's body back to Cuba and bury him.
Castro held a solemn funeral for Che Guevara, burying him in Santa Clara, where he had fought.
From the very beginning of that motorcycle, Che Guevara has been on the ideal path. He does not enjoy the glory because his path itself shines; he does not care about money and fame, because ideals are priceless. His presence gave hope to the Cuban people and set an example for the proletarian revolutionaries of the world. It may be that his spark is not enough to form a burning force, but in a dark space-time he is the brightest being.
Looking at the world through Che Guevara's eyes, he sees the gap between ideals and reality, the gap between romance and misery, the contrast between poverty and wealth, the contrast between dictatorship and democracy; he chooses to fill the world's unevenness with practical actions, and he is spiritually worthy of eternal remembrance by revolutionaries.