Posts Tagged ‘Fidel Castro’

Castro, last week:

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Castro commenting on France’s treatment of Roma migrants:

“The last thing one would expect is the news of the expulsion of French gypsies, who are victims of the cruelty of the extreme right wing in France,” he said.

Migrants were, he said, “victims of another kind of racial holocaust”.

I never thought I’d say this, but here are some smart words from Fidel Castro (yeah, the guy who turned Cuba into a prison camp):

He [Castro] said the Iranian government should understand the consequences of theological anti-Semitism. “This went on for maybe two thousand years,” he said. “I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.” The Iranian government should understand that the Jews “were expelled from their land, persecuted and mistreated all over the world, as the ones who killed God. In my judgment here’s what happened to them: Reverse selection. What’s reverse selection? Over 2,000 years they were subjected to terrible persecution and then to the pogroms. One might have assumed that they would have disappeared; I think their culture and religion kept them together as a nation.” He continued: “The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” I asked him if he would tell Ahmadinejad what he was telling me. “I am saying this so you can communicate it,” he answered.

Jeffrey Goldberg: Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews’

See also: Jeffrey Goldberg’s Scoop of the Year: The Castro Interview

Dieses Foto habe ich gestern im Eingangsbereich vom Kino Central in Berlin Mitte gemacht:

Das schwarze Poster sieht von nahem so aus:

Ich habe absolut keine Ahnung, wer oder was für diese Aktion verantwortlich ist. Bin einfach nur fasziniert von der Aufzählung: Benito Mussolini 1922 Josef Stalin 1924 Adolf Hitler 1933 Mao Zedong 1949 Fidel Castro 1959 Saddam Hussein 1979. Whow.