Che said of Stalin “In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time.”

You are displaying the revisionist attitude. I used to have it too, and then I stopped pretending I knew everything and actually read history and researched.

Che on DPRK (North Korea): Havana and Pyongyang developed their friendship in detail during the Cold War. Diplomatic relations were established immediately after the victory of the Cuban revolution in August 1960, and embassies were opened in the two capitals. That year, the then Cuban minister, the legendary Ernesto Che Guevara, visited Pyongyang and declared that Cuba should follow the North Korean model. Che was impressed by the post-war reconstruction and rapid industrial development. He told an American journalist that the DPRK “was a small country raised from the ashes of American bombing and invasion.”

https://www.eurasiareview.com/03022023-the-unbreakable-alliance-of-cuba-and-north-korea-how-the-two-nations-were-linked-by-communism-and-resistance-to-us-imperialism-oped/

I’m always puzzled by “anti-tankies” who support Cuba. Cuba are tankies. All communists in real life are “tankies”, you just were able to see Cubans are relatively normal people trying their best to do socialism because you are familiar with them and they are nearer to you geographically and culturally so the propaganda isn’t as effective as it with more “alien” reds. Stop being anti-tankie