The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona Torres, who was in the unit that confronted the U.S. imperialist invasion of Caracas on Jan. 3. The interview was done by Ignacio Ramonet (author of “100 Hours with Fidel”). Translation: Walter Lippmann, publisher of

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Testimony of a Cuban combatant who defended President Maduro

The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona Torres, who was in the unit that confronted the U.S. imperialist invasion of Caracas on Jan. 3. The interview was done by Ignacio Ramonet (author of “100 Hours with Fidel”). Translation: Walter Lippmann, publisher of Cuba News, a daily . . .

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  • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Sparta had the best PR machine in the world. The guys sucked shit, got their asses kicked except for a brief 10-15 years and everyone still sucks their dicks about it. They weren’t good for anything other than hunting slaves and they sucked at that too.
    They had a shitton of slaves with them to Thermopylae and a bunch of other greeks too. The only good thing that came out of that debacle was the fact some dumbass romans tried to make their last stand at Thermopylae many years later - Against other romans! Everyone knew the story then, so the guys got their shit kicked in, which was very funny.

    Or so I’m told doggirl-sweat

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      19 days ago

      It’s not even that they had the best PR machine in the world, is was that Plato was a fascist little shit who was a Sparta-boo, and he was the primary source for most Greek history for a very very long time. Most Athenians thought Spartans were a joke because their ability to create a navy sucked (because they ran a slave economy).

      • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        19 days ago

        I always love the Sparta story about Philip of Macedon saying “if I invade sparta you will be destroyed, never to rise again”
        Spartas response? “If.”
        Very cool.
        What happened next was that they got invaded and destroyed. They’re like the original fascists with how much shit they suck