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mar 17, 1954 - Castro: "History will absolve me"

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-speech during trial following attack on Moncada Barracks

-gave Castro national platform to deliver manifesto - Moncada Programme (vision for a new Cuba)

-"Revolutionary Laws" of Moncada Programme: 1940 constitution, land reform, profit sharing (industrial + sugar workers), end corruption

-gained support of working classes

-Castro later earned loyalty of working classes early in his rule as he kept Moncada Programme promises (seen as saviour)

-similar to speech by Hitler during trial following Munich Beer Hall Putsch (1923)

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Date:

mar 17, 1954
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~ 71 years ago