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Fidel Castro
1926 – 2016
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008, and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
August 13, 1926
Birán
Date of death
November 25, 2016
Havana
Citizenship
Cuba
Occupations & fields
politicianlawyerpartisanjournalistrevolutionarystatesperson
Awards & honours
Hero of the Soviet UnionOrder of LeninJubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"Order of the October RevolutionCollar of the Order of the White LionStar of the Socialist Republic of Romania
- Field and occupation
- bývalý prvý tajomník Ústredného výboru Komunistickej strany Kuby a prezident Kuby
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