Revolutionary Fidel - PHOTOS

  26 November 2016    Read: 4572
Revolutionary Fidel - PHOTOS
Fidel Castro, who established a communist regime in Cuba that survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, inspired revolutionary movements and brought two superpowers close to nuclear war before stepping down after 49 years in power, has died. He was 90.



Fidel Castro smokes a cigar during interviews with the press in Havana during a visit of U.S. Senator Charles McGovern in May 1975.



Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara attend the 1st National Meeting for Production in Cuba in this undated file photo.



Fidel Castro addresses the crowd during an event at Revolution Square in Havana in this undated file photo.



Fidel Castro shares a laugh with Malcolm X at the Hotel Theresa in New York, October 19, 1960.



(L-R) Manuel Pineiro, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, an unidentified girl and Vilma Espin together in Havana in this undated file photo.



Fidel Castro addresses the audience as president of the Non-Aligned Movement at the United Nations in New York, October 12, 1979.



Fidel Castro visits a former concentration camp in Oswiencin, Poland in June 1972.



Fidel Castro relaxes in a swimming pool during a visit to Romania, May 28, 1972.



Fidel Castro watches Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko on a television transmission during the Soyuz 38 space mission in Havana September 1980.



Fidel Castro breaks a piece of bread offered to him before the XXVI Congress of the Soviet Union`s Communist Party, outside Moscow in February 1981.



Fidel Castro (3rd row, R) enters a public trial for captured members (seated) of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Havana in April 1961.



Fidel Castro prepares for an interview with Channel 7 from Chile at the Chilean embassy in Havana in 1971.



Fidel Castro addresses the audience at a theater in Odessa in February 1981.



Fidel Castro addresses the audience as president of the Non-Aligned Movement at the United Nations in New York October 12, 1979.



Fidel Castro visits the liberated areas in South Vietnam, October 1973.

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