Fidel Castro and an armed uprising in Cuba. Leonov N.S.

December 2, 1956 from the Granma yacht near the village of Great in the area of ​​Loskolorados of the province of Oreent Cuba, a detachment of 82 rebels led by Fidel Castro landed. The two -year partisan war began. On January 1, 1959, the rebel troops entered Santiago and Havana, on January 8, Fidel Castro solemnly arrived in the capital.

Nikolai Lenov: “The arrival of Fidel Castro was carried out by organizing a military expedition abroad in Mexico, transfer This expedition to the territory of Cuba, the organization of the partisan revolutionary war in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. The victory in this war and the coming to power by the revolutionary route ”

General of retired foreign intelligence service Nikolai Leonov met Fidel Castro in 1955. In 1963, a month and a half was his personal translator, when the Kubinsky leader came to the USSR.

Author - one of the leading Cuba experts.