Che - The Movie
Che - The Movie
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- Khurram0
Excuse me, you seem to be confusing Soviet-style economic policies of 5-year plans and collectivisation of agriculture, with the blood thirsty excesses of Stalinism and Stalin's purges.
He was heavily critical of the Soviet Union, which is what led to his falling out with Castro. He denounced the USSR in a speech given in Algiers in which he expressed his view that the Northern Hemisphere, led by the US in the West and the Soviet Union in the East, was the exploiter of the Southern Hemisphere.
If anything, he was an anti-imperliast before he was anything else, and shunned the comfort and trappings of state power to fight for, what he perceived as, other people's freedom.