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Moscow, May 8th. - The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, referred to the teachings of the late Cuban revolutionary and president Fidel Castro on the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), on the eve of the events commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory Day.
Díaz-Canel, who arrived in Russia last Sunday, was interviewed in a special edition of the Mesa Redonda program with RT in Spanish. The president read two reflections of Fidel "on the impact and scope of the Great Patriotic War."
The Cuban president said that the analysis made by the leader of the Cuban Revolution "has to do with the dismantling of neofascism that they try to impose on us."
"This first reflection is for the world," Diaz-Canel said, then read: "The overthrow of fascism created new conditions for everyone. Before World War II, if we looked at the maps of Africa, we found that there was not a single free people on the entire African continent. If we looked at the Asian continent, we saw that there were very few peoples that were not colonized on that continent. If we looked at Latin America, we saw it absolutely dominated by U.S. imperialism. A few powers had spread the world, enslaved it and exploited it."
Faced with these words, the Cuban president warned: "If we do not face this neofascism, we will go back to this that Fidel described."
Diaz-Canel continued to read Fidel and referred to his words about Cuba and his close relationship with the Soviet and Russian people: "Because when the Soviets fought and died in Leningrad, in Moscow, in Stalingrad, in Kursk, in Berlin, they were fighting and were dying for us as well. Their heroes are therefore our heroes as well. Their martyrs are also our martyrs. Their blood is also our blood. And that's the feeling that we Cubans have."
Finally, the Cuban president said that these have been learning to the "light of history," taking into account the contributions of both the Soviet Union and Russia "to the cause of humanity." (Text and photo: RT)
