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Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.

Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.

At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.

Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.

In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wonder if Biden came up with a similar religious self-justification for his support of genocide in Gaza.

Ilan Pape has talked about American Presidents being religious nutjobs.

[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah like, Bush said god told him to invade Iraq. The crusades never ended, just under new management

[-] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I remember that "kgb knew about the bomb before Truman" line on Wikipedia from like 15 years ago

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