This photo may be familiar to everyone, and his image and name can be seen on T-shirts, hats, mugs, lighters, graffiti on walls, and even in the ghost animal area of Station B.
He was a prominent and capable man who served as a senior Cuban official and president of the National Bank.
This man is a collection of contradictions, some people worship his rebellious spirit, romantic feelings; some people call him an idealist; some people worship him as a spiritual leader, and some people think that he is a utopian totem, a pawn in the great power game, and even the embodiment of evil.
In June 1928, Che Guevara was born into a wealthier family in Argentina. At that time, Argentina's political corruption, chaos, and superior family conditions left a question in his mind. Why is there so much unfairness in the world? How can the gap between the rich and the poor be so big!
After graduating from high school, he successfully entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine, but restlessly decided to travel around Latin America with friends on a motorcycle.
Che Guevara during his medical studies
Latin America at the time was known as the "backyard garden of America," and in the international division of labor, they provided natural resources and cheap labor, but what they got was destroyed land and the social reality of the disparity between the rich and the poor.
On this tour, Che Guevara was given a glimpse of the magnificent natural beauty of South America, as well as witnessing poverty-hating diseases and disasters. When he returned to Argentina in September 1952, he wrote in his diary: "The person who wrote these diaries died when he re-embarked on Argentine soil, and I am no longer me." ”
Because of his experience, he came to the conclusion that if he wanted to make everyone live a happy life, he must choose revolution. Subsequently, as a bully, he successfully passed the exam and obtained the surgeon's certificate, but a letter of enlistment disrupted his future plans.
The clever Che Guevara used his medical knowledge to inspire asthma when he was two years old, and got a certificate of physical incompetence. So he embarked on the journey again according to the original plan, gave up the superior life, and came to Guatemala several times.
Guatemala was undergoing a series of revolutions, especially land reform, with the intention of recovering 8,400 hectares of land occupied by the United States United Goods Company. But the Americans immediately took action using the usual routine, providing the mercenaries led by the local reactionary officer Armas to be heavily armed and using the line on the screen as an excuse to launch an attack, just to defend their rights and interests on the ground. The mercenary corps then used military aircraft to bomb strategic facilities in Guatemala and demand that the president resign or overthrow his regime.
At this time of crisis, Che Guevara continued to preach the slogan of insisting on revolution, and by this time he had already grown from a rich boy to a strong fighter. By this time, the CIA had already locked it on the list of "dangerous communists" and planned to execute them.
In the end, the United States achieved its goal with overwhelming strength, not only recovering lost land but also dividing tens of thousands of hectares of land, and Che Guevara, who was wanted, had to choose to go into exile. Because he saw Guatemala being dominated and manipulated by the United States and ended in tragedy, which made his morale even more high, he did not choose to return to his hometown but went to Mexico.
I found a job in a local general hospital, and in my spare time, I dabbled in a large number of Marxist-Leninist works and absorbed the experience of the struggle of the proletariat of various countries. Therefore, he believed that socialism could be achieved only through armed struggle, and that power could be brought out of the barrel of a gun.
Shortly thereafter, he became acquainted with Fidel Castro, Cuba's future supreme leader. Castro and his brother were actively preparing for the revolution. Because his native Cuba was under a pro-American dictatorship under the Batista regime, the same ideals soon led them to quickly establish friendships.
Fidel Castro seems to share the same trajectory as Che Guevara, born into a wealthy family of estate owners; equally sympathetic to the suffering people; equally rebellious and rebellious.
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Havana, he was equally active in the revolutionary path against the pro-American dictatorship. In 1956, they organized a resistance of 82 people, which were soon attacked by government forces.
At that time, a fragment cut through Che Guevara's neck, and the tension and pain made him think that he had been fatally injured, lying in the jungle and his mind flashed with how to die with dignity, fortunately, this injury was only a scrape of the wood chip across the neck after the bullet hit the wooden box.
And this collision with the god of death also achieved the future Che Guevara's fighting characteristics that were not afraid of life and death, and when their armed forces, with only 22 people left, had to retreat into the mountains and forests to escape the encirclement.
On those days, the roar of patrol planes echoed above his head, and his mind was always ready to fight to the death. Finally they settled in a village, and their revolutionary ideas were deeply supported by the local peasants and workers.
Subsequently, because the pro-American dictatorship of Cuba at that time became more and more unpopular, the spark of socialist ideas they brought with them took off, and soon they gathered a large number of supporters and troops to form a number of guerrilla groups and launched a series of successful sneak attacks against the government forces.
At this time, the United States provided $1 million in military assistance to the Batista government to protect its investments in Cuba. In January 1959, when the results of guerrilla fighting became more pronounced and the people's mood of struggle grew, they chose to launch a large-scale armed uprising and pointed at the Cuban capital: Havana.
The dictator Batista was powerless, and eventually took $300 million of his belongings and fled. The Cuban Revolution ended in victory.
Che Guevara was later allowed to become Cuban nationals with his advanced thinking, heroic performance and gradual leadership skills in the course of the battle. He was subsequently appointed Minister of Industry of Cuba and Governor of the Central Bank.
Che Guevara, who has long been a thorn in the eye of the United States, is now in power and in order to grow his own economy. He was active in land reform to reclaim land ceded to U.S. businesses, redistribute them to farmers, and nationalize them.
His series of behaviors continue to provoke the bottom line of the United States, and the United States will naturally not be soft, first moving out of the trade war and adopting an economic blockade against Cuba. This is almost identical to the U.S. approach to the Soviet Union, and its principles can be seen in my first article. The grain trade war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the warring states buy deer to make Chu, and review the process of the trade war initiated by grain
The loss of the trade embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba was compensated by the Soviet Union's import and export agreements, owing to cuba's choice of the socialist path and Cuba's choice to move towards the socialist road. Cuban assets in the United States were frozen, and the Soviet Union provided financial assistance to Cuba, which over time made the United States restless throughout the red territory of Cuba in the Americas.
In 1961, the United States announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and the United States continued its traditional art to support Cuban reactionaries in an attempt to stir up Cuban politics again. But these reactionaries have no affinity in this red land, and it is almost impossible to call on any forces to join them. Like paper tigers, these reactionaries are greeted with united resistance.
When the opposition was about to be wiped out, the United States simply abandoned them and refused to provide them with any support, and the situation became more and more serious as the relations between Cuba and the United States became more and more antagonistic.
In 1962, the Soviet Union began to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba on the pretext of protecting Cuba's national security, which was the closest crisis of the Cold War to the Third World War, the Cuban Missile Crisis. As for the beginning and end of this incident, it is not much to express due to the length of the article. In the end, both the United States and the Soviet Union calmed down and gave in to each other, declaring the end of the incident.
Cuban Missile Crisis
But Khrushchev's decision, in the eyes of the radical revolutionary Che Guevara, felt immense anger and disappointment, saying that "if the nuclear bomb is in our hands, we can destroy the core of the United States, we will move toward victory, even if thousands of people will be victims."
Since then, Che Guevara and Castro have also begun to disagree on many levels, but fundamentally the two of them still have a lot of similarities, that is, do not forget the original intention.
But Castro's ideal is to revitalize Cuba, and Che Guevara's ideal is to continue the revolution and raise the red flag for the whole world. In the end Che Guevara left a farewell letter, writing: I have officially resigned from the party's leading body, renounced my rank and Cuban nationality, and bowed down to the best of my ability to consolidate the victory of the revolution. Today, other parts of the world need me to give my meager strength. Our moment of separation seems to have arrived.
His nowhere to rest his enthusiasm and ideals led him to give up his rights and position and choose to take up the gun again and fight on the front line of the revolution, but Che Guevara's later revolutionary path did not go well.
The success of the Cuban Revolution was also an inevitable trend of social progress, brought about by the strength of the people. Cuba at that time had this kind of time, geographical advantages and people and guerrilla warfare, which in itself could not have a crucial impact on the revolution.
In April 1965, he traveled to the Congo in Africa, where he joined the communist ranks against the colonial rulers and wanted to make people in other parts of the world accept the idea that the United States was the public enemy of the world.
However, soon after, Che Guevara found that the Congolese were lazy and slack, and the troops were unwilling to train, and their combat ability was poor, and they often threatened the local people to ask for food and other materials, which was also unpopular.
And whenever he went to accuse them, the response was surprisingly unanimous: "We are not Cubans." So it is conceivable that in the Congo, Che Guevara did not realize his ideals, which is also a necessity.
Because of the different histories, cultures and language barriers of African countries, the people's ideas cannot be integrated with Guevara. But the more so his obsession became, the crazier he became.
After several turns, he finally came to the last country, Bolivia. He also tried to overthrow the pro-American regime, but the guerrillas were still unable to mobilize the masses, which seemed doomed to his defeat.
Che Guevara's hiding place was eventually exposed with the assistance of the CIA, and 1,800 U.S.-trained troops began to encircle and suppress his hiding place.
On the battlefield he was also shot in the barrel of a bullet in the leg, and he had no choice but to surrender. At this point the CIA agent arrived quickly, and he met Che Guevara and described him as such. Cut look: "He's like a beast, his face is emaciated, his hair is tangled, his face is down, his hands are tied in front of him..."
Before the unthoccupable shooting came, when asked what Che had in his last words, he said: Please tell Castro, he will soon see the victory of the American Revolution!
In the face of death, Che was brave and calm, and finally the executioner fired six shots in a row, ending Che Guevara's life at the age of thirty-nine. After his death, his body was exhibited, but his eyes, which were never blinded, still left a deep impression on the world.
After a lapse of thirty years, Cuba sent experts to Bolivia to exhum the body of Che Guevara, because after his death, his hands were cut off and sent to a different place to verify his identity, and the experts used this as a basis to find the body without hands, and finally placed it in Cuba as a state burial.
This is also Castro's final account to his friends who have fought side by side: "We need a model, a model that does not belong only to the present, a model that will last forever." Such a model has no shortcomings in his conduct; there is no defect in his attitude; there is no defect in his performance. This example is Che Guevara. ”
From the experience of Che Guevara and of all the successful revolutionary processes in the world, the mass base is the most important, and without this foundation the ideals of the revolution are doomed to end in tragedy.
This is the life of the legendary Che Guevara, a brave man who has never feared the iron-fisted power of the United States, despite the disparity in strength; he is a belligerent man, for wherever he goes he is bound to start a revolutionary war; he is a ruthless man, for he will not hesitate if the nuclear button falls into his hands; he is a ruthless man, because he is never soft on the enemy, and he spares no mercy.
And che Guevara played a different kind of idol and spiritual leader in the eyes of people from different positions. Especially in the eyes of Westerners, this communist fighter did not have the vicious and ruthless face of the cultural description, but he was handsome and handsome, had countless encounters in his life, liked rock music, and was full of rebellious spirit, thus becoming the object of worship of young people.
The most valuable thing should be that he regards the ideal as a being above all else, so he can give up a superior life and a stable future to pursue the ideal.
After success, he still refused the temptation of power, and once again devoted all his enthusiasm and life to a larger ideal, without the slightest doubt. Although he did not achieve greatness in the end, this pure pursuit of ideals and beliefs is admirable in any era.
Everything he does can always stimulate people's imagination, let his charm travel through life and death, through culture, through the ages, so that his eyes that are always carried, full of determination and lofty ideals can often appear in front of people.
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