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• 01 / 30 / 2009

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Although it did not have cannon yet to announce the victory of the October Revolution, as the Aurora cruiser did during the attack on the Winter Palace, the embryos of the Cuban Armed Forces and the founders of the Rebel Army arrived at the island on that yacht, the president remarked in a brief speech.

We were 82 guerrillas, two of whom are here today, he said, referring to Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, who was accompanying him. Almost 56 years have gone by, he said in reference to the expedition of the legendary Granma yacht from Tuxpan, Mexico, to Las Coloradas beach, in the Cuban eastern region.

He highlighted that the members, together with all the Cuban people, eliminated Fulgencio Batista's bloody tyranny in a little over two years, and attained victory on January 1, 1959.

It is a small historic symbol that could fit in any small corner of this large museum, the work of which is focused on soviet history and acknowledgement of the Soviet Union's decisive contribution to the struggle against fascism.

The president called that center a great school and beautiful example for subsequent generations, with the purpose of remembering those who sacrificed their lives for their homeland.

Forgetting that history would be one of the worst crimes in the world, the Cuban leader warned.

Raul Castro, who will be officially visiting Russia until February 4, fulfilling an invitation by his Russian peer Dmitri Medvedev, thanked journalist Valentina Chiguir and her family for giving Cuba a photographic exhibition, which is at the Great Patriotic War Central Museum, honoring the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

(PL)