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I don't usually go to Slavoj Zizek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_Žižek for what-ifs (or anything else), but..."It is clear that Fidel Castro was different from the usual figure of a Communist leader, and that Cuban revolution itself was something unique. Its specificity is best rendered by the duality of Fidel and Che Guevara: Fidel, the actual Leader, supreme authority of the State, versus Che, the eternal revolutionary rebel who could not resign himself to just running a State. Is this not something like a Soviet Union in an alternative past in which Leon Trotsky would not have been rejected as the arch-traitor? Imagine that, in the mid-1920s, Trotsky were to emigrate and renounce Soviet citizenship in order to incite permanent revolution around the world, and then die in the highlands of Papua New Guinea soon afterwards. After his death, Stalin would have elevated Trotsky into a cult, and monuments celebrating their friendship, along with iconic t-shirts, would proliferate all around the USSR..." http://inthesetimes.com/article/196...-slavoj-zizek-fidel-castro-cuba-che-communism

I once wondered about how to fulfill Isaac Deutscher's wish that one day all cities in the USSR have statues of both Stalin and Trotsky. This is one way to do it...
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