Cuba Successfully Spreads Communism

How could Cuba successfully spread communism to Africa and/or Latin America? Maybe with the help of Che Guevara? I play as Cuba in a alt-history community and i got Che Guevara to be trained by the East German Stasi after the revolution, so Che might be better at the whole revolution thing.
 
i got Che Guevara to be trained by the East German Stasi after the revolution, so Che might be better at the whole revolution thing.

Just of curiousity, but how good were the Stasi at promoting global revolution, as opposed to just domestic repression? As far as I know, their regime was pretty much put into power by the force of the Red Army, not their own revolutionary brilliance.

I'd imagine that a lot of the people who eventually joined the Stasi had been part of the anti-Nazi resistance, but how well does that translate into whipping up revolutionary fervour in Africa and Latin America?
 
Just of curiousity, but how good were the Stasi at promoting global revolution, as opposed to just domestic repression? As far as I know, their regime was pretty much put into power by the force of the Red Army, not their own revolutionary brilliance.

I'd imagine that a lot of the people who eventually joined the Stasi had been part of the anti-Nazi resistance, but how well does that translate into whipping up revolutionary fervour in Africa and Latin America?
good point
 
I think it'd take the USA messing up its hold on South America to get Communism spread further in Lain America, perhaps the race relations take a turn for the worse.
 

iVC

Donor
Did anyone suggested the possibility of poor peasantry revolts and forced land re-distribution all across the Latin and South America? Domino effects in case of (maybe) Brazil 'commoners' in 1960s successfully rushing into the 1920s-like 'red fever'?
 
Just of curiousity, but how good were the Stasi at promoting global revolution, as opposed to just domestic repression? As far as I know, their regime was pretty much put into power by the force of the Red Army, not their own revolutionary brilliance.

I'd imagine that a lot of the people who eventually joined the Stasi had been part of the anti-Nazi resistance, but how well does that translate into whipping up revolutionary fervour in Africa and Latin America?

The GDR did provide help to a number of anti-colonial and socialist forces throughout Africa, not just Stasi but a variety of civilian and military personnel ranging from army advisors to members of the Free German Youth, as well as economic aid. They contributed (not as much as Cuba but still) to the successful struggles in Angola and Mozambique most notably.
 

raharris1973

Gone Fishin'
Donor
Monthly Donor
Nicaragua, Grenada, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Afghanistan all had Marxist regimes or movements aided by Cuba.
 
OTL Che and the Castro brothers originally wanted a distinctive Latin American style of communism. They wanted to focus on the poor peasants improving their lives.
Unfortunately, during the Cokd War, the USA forced Cuba into the Russian camp.

ATL The USA and NATO are too busy - containing Russian communism - to notice Cuba quietly exporting their revolution to several Latin American countries. The USA recognizes - too late - that Latino communism is radically different than Bolshevism. Latino communism becomes a true class-struggle, lacking authoritarianism. Dictatorship of the proletariat is only a brief - awkward - phase in Latino peasant revolutions. So awkward that many revolutions skip it entirely. Cuban agitators quietly support trade unionists and indigenous tribes asserting their claims to traditional lands. Latino capitalists find little support among American business interests or Congress. Latino capitalists cheerfully hand over exhausted farmland to peasants. The brighter Latino capitalists quietly move their capital off-shore .
 
Top