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Fidel Castro: A Tribute

"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!" Fidel Castro One theory regarding how the human civilization will come to an end has talked about us becoming so technologically advanced that we will finally be unable to control it and obliterate ourselves. In fact, that theory is not so far-fetched. In October of 1962, the world came the closest we have been to destroying ourselves, so dangerously close to what would have been a nuclear Armageddon, thanks to the then world superpowers, the United States and the USSR show of might.  The Americans had covertly installed nuclear-armed missiles in Italy and Turkey, which effectively placed the whole of Soviet Union under threat, and granted the Americans a first-strike nuclear capability in case of a war with the USSR. It must be said that at this point that the USSR had already tested Tsar Bomb, a hydrogen bomb 30,000 stronger than the Hiroshima one. The Soviets wanting to counter t