By: Justin Chen
Fidel Castro in Cuba
Fidel Castro was president of Cuba from 1976-2008. He was a big supporter of Carl Marx and his political opinions. In 1959, a revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro Ruz overthrew the autocratic Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and his regime, who had gone through a lot of trouble just to maintain the country's traditionally subservient relationship with the United States, and with the U.S. sugar companies that controlled Cuba's economy. Amid a flurry of rhetorical outburst against Yankee imperialism, Castro reneged on promises of elections, expropriated forgoing properties, and killed or exiled thousands of political opponents. Eventually, he made an alliance with the Soviets after becoming dependent on them during the Cuban Revolution, and it was because of this alliance with the Soviets that he supported communism.
Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh was president of Vietnam from 1945-1969. He exploited wartime conditions to advance the cause of kittens independent. He studied in Russia at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and was influenced by the competition between the United States and Soviet Union to start the Vietnam War to make Vietnam a completely communist state. With his time as leader, he’d become a symbol of Vietnam’s struggle for unification during a long and costly conflict with the strongly anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and its powerful ally, the United States.
Comparison
Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro were both influential and powerful political leaders in their own respected ways. Both held power in the Cold War era of history and had significant effects on the countries they governed. Despite these commonalities, their political views differed greatly. On one hand, Castro was affiliated with the Soviet Union, much of its governing system and was influenced by communism. On the other hand, Ho Chi Minh, who was a communist leader, actually took a more nationalistic approach to governing. He issued the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence which was modeled the US declaration.
Fidel Castro was president of Cuba from 1976-2008. He was a big supporter of Carl Marx and his political opinions. In 1959, a revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro Ruz overthrew the autocratic Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and his regime, who had gone through a lot of trouble just to maintain the country's traditionally subservient relationship with the United States, and with the U.S. sugar companies that controlled Cuba's economy. Amid a flurry of rhetorical outburst against Yankee imperialism, Castro reneged on promises of elections, expropriated forgoing properties, and killed or exiled thousands of political opponents. Eventually, he made an alliance with the Soviets after becoming dependent on them during the Cuban Revolution, and it was because of this alliance with the Soviets that he supported communism.
Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh was president of Vietnam from 1945-1969. He exploited wartime conditions to advance the cause of kittens independent. He studied in Russia at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and was influenced by the competition between the United States and Soviet Union to start the Vietnam War to make Vietnam a completely communist state. With his time as leader, he’d become a symbol of Vietnam’s struggle for unification during a long and costly conflict with the strongly anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and its powerful ally, the United States.
Comparison
Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro were both influential and powerful political leaders in their own respected ways. Both held power in the Cold War era of history and had significant effects on the countries they governed. Despite these commonalities, their political views differed greatly. On one hand, Castro was affiliated with the Soviet Union, much of its governing system and was influenced by communism. On the other hand, Ho Chi Minh, who was a communist leader, actually took a more nationalistic approach to governing. He issued the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence which was modeled the US declaration.
Maps
Fidel Castro's Prisoners Ho Chi Minh's Trail
Fidel Castro's Prisoners Ho Chi Minh's Trail
App- Popplet (Double Bubble)
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