Fidel Castro Declares Cuba Communist in National Speech, April 16, 1961
In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
Date: April 16, 1961
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