TRUTH about Che Guevara - Forgotten History
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- In the 1960s, for the United States, the greatest threat was just 90 miles south of Florida, Cuba and the communist dictatorship established by Fidel Castro and his proxy Che Guevara. Che Guevara was a scholar, philosopher, writer, teacher, healer, revolutionary, mass murderer, psychopath. So who was the real Che Guevara? Hosted by Colin D. Heaton. The Forgotten History Channel is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.
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As a native Hispanic, who was taught about Che Guevara's history, I have always been shocked to see people here in the US idolize him! But then, we need to remember the extremely failed public education system here in the US, compounded by what the media shows the general population.
Agreed. Thanks for watching.
And there thick as shit
Though I had seen his image memorialized on some t-shirts, I had no idea who he was until I watched this video.
It’s not the US that idolizes him! It’s the left, the dems. Please do not confuse them with normal Americans. This people are so dumb they don’t know or even take the time to learn of his atrocities. They watch main stream media and believe every word!
Che wrote in a letter to his father how his firing squad would not adhere to his order to shoot an 11 year old boy, so he did it himself, shot him in the neck and almost decapitated the child. He wrote to his father that he was beginning to get a taste for it. Put that on a shirt.
“To execute a man we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it is necessary to execute him. It is that simple.” Che. And yet he is an idol to youths around the world.
Yes, Che openly adopted the Lenin, Stalin, Beria and Mao methods. Thanks for watching.
He's an idol to "socialist" idiots on this thread who have the luxury of being born in America.
That’s because evil knows no boundaries ! Birds of a feather stick together. May they rot in hell !!!
Che was the cool communist
@@luisvelez5695You mean a cool mass mu r d er er!
I grew up during this times and originally from Latin America and i have always been very aware of who Che really was, and just like lots of people, it amaze me how they idolized this guy who in reality was a murderer.
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Honestly I think it had much to do with his looks and charm. His face on shirts still sell millions bc it appeals to the counter culture. I mean you see no other communist leader revered like that. I mean there’s no shirts or posters in the West of Lenin, Stalin, or any Soviet leader. Even Castro himself never had the appeal that Che does. His good looks and charm make him palatable to those who just see him as nothing but a revolutionary. The obsession with Che is all very surface level. It’s been proven people are more likely to trust an attractive face over an ugly one. It’s also why attractive people are more likely to get an easy sentence or slap on the wrist whereas ugly criminals are more likely to get a harsh sentence. Attractive bias is real. I mean the Bible always said Lucifer was God’s most beautiful angel.
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What military commander isn’t a so called murderer ?
What about Fucking Kissinger, was he a great man? That is a true murderer.
I don’t hate or love Che, but I find it funny that he gets called a murderer by people who idolize other military generals who murdered many many more people, it’s all about perspective.
Thanks for watching
Indeed. I feel guilty for wearing war criminal racist megalomaniac Abe Lincon t shirt.
being a cuban I was going to say something bad about this monster since the video did not go into details about it but after reading some of you guys coments I am impressed how much you know and how much his immage has change lately. Information is a powerful tool.
Thanks for watching
He’s no more monstrous than the leaders of ANY nation with the exception of a rare rare few
Guevara was like most Communists. He spent the years of his life completely consumed by hatred of the United States. Even though his obsession and odd preoccupation never once prevented the US from prospering and thriving. And it's not likely that when he departed this life his final earthly thoughts were any different.
His image has not changed, what’s being said in this video is no revelation it’s standard propaganda that’s been pushed since the 70s. It’s amazing to me how Cuban expats can be so anti Cuban. People in Cuba have always overwhelmingly supported the revolution and Castro’s government. To think some people would rather take the word of a stowaway rat like you over the nations Citizens.
@@kilroy1976 Man you are delusional. The people will lynch you in Cuba for saying dumb ass shit like that.
I use to wear a Che shirt in college…I wish time travel existed so I could go back and kick my own ass.
LOL
I've liked that scum, i hate communists since i was a very young boy.
You were obviously smarter in college.
@@m.a.2282 Nah, I don’t idolize mass murdering homophobic racists that enjoy torturing animals and putting people in forced labor camps.
We all make mistakes when we are ignorant.
Based on the reaction to this video I'm glad to see che is finally falling out of favor with a lot of people. It used to bother me greatly when I would see young people who were either babies or born after the Wall came down wearing tee-shirts with his image on it. They had no idea what this guy was all about or how people suffered under communism.
Thanks for watching
so youre offended by people wearing shirts? haha
@@user-dc9oq2pr6v ya when the guy is a mass murderer like Hitler. I guess you where Hitler shirts too
@@user-dc9oq2pr6v "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood!” raved Guevara in his Motorcycle Diaries (though this aspiration is omitted from liars like Howard Zinn and the lefts depiction ) “Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”
The left also leaves that the blood he loves to smell with gunpowder was from the shooting of unarmed men and boys at point blank range. vencido means surrendered.
Hey LBJ how many kids you kill today... as well as make gay.
That Che Guevara picture was drew by famous Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, he didn't know how much of an impact it would have on the world.
I draw, I drew, I have drawn.
@@geordiewishart1683😂😂😂
It wasn't even drawn, it was a two tone screen print copy of the iconic photograph 'Guerrillero Heroico' taken by Alberto Korda.
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It was not "drawn", it was a photograph. Taken with a *camera*
I used to have a Rage Against the Machine cloth poster hanging throughout my teenage and late 20s. When i moved to Florida and became very close friends with some cubans, especially my cuban best friend like a brother who was also ex-cuban military special forces but anti-socialist and is a greater/deeper United States Constitution lover than most natural born Americans scolded me and was deeply distressed over my ignorance of the level of Pos Che was and how he murdered thousands of innocent people women and children. I took it down immediately and educated myself. My friend Eddr is a great human being and even better American Citizen who loves the United States 🇺🇸.
Yeah, I bet many who wear his t-shirt today have no clue about who he really was.
Great post thanks for watching
@Colin Heaton id love for you guys to do a forgotten history on my ancestor John of Gaunt, i feel you would love learning about him and create an amazing episode for your viewers on an obscure historical figure lesser known
@@josepheckbold6568 I know very much about him, very famous and influential man. I have a few like that in my ancestry also. Good message thanks.
It is an experience to meet true asylum seekers and refugees and to listen to what they say about where they were from, why they came to the US, and what they would do to defend the US
Most people don't have any idea who Che was. They just think he looks cool on a shirt.
Thanks for watching.
The point isn’t to know who Che actually was for the young psychopath admirer; the point is that he represents the same psychopathy, which is a desire to produce nothing and take what others produce, and to inflict the same damage as ferally.
I had to explain to my kids the truth about Che and why they had no business wearing a shirt with his face on it... they never got those shirts.
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Seems to me he's a fake. May have the charismatic look but a hateful person.
Another classic example of a "hero" of the workers who never worked a day in his life
Don't know if fighting a guerrilla war in the mountains of Cuba for 2 year, counts for work?
Not condoning the man's atrocities but like at least have a balanced view of the guy lol
@@junyank1846 I'm referring to the drudgery of years and years of poorly paid menial work
He could have lived a well paid comfortable life. But south America was a collection of corrupt ultra rightwing dictatorshpis backed by the USA. The only way to get change was by revolution & he dedicated his life to it. (For the avoidance of doubt my political views are pretty right wing in relation to the European situation but large parts of the world are totally different.)
You need to educate yourself a little harder.
@@exosapiens2509 how ironic that you would question my educational standard while simultaneously using the wrong adjective. The one you're looking for there is better not harder
Unfortunately for the people of Cuba and other oppressed people they had one dictatorship replaced with another. Castro preached socialism and despised capitalism but after his death it was reported he had a personal fortune of over one billion dollars.
Ha! Of course he did. All of the "communists" I know come from very wealthy families. Absolute hypocrites.
It is amazing how many Communist dictators end up having huge palaces, luxury cars, their own aircraft and an attentive staff of servants and above all £Billions in various international banks. All in the name of helping the workers mind!
@mgcarmkm4520 - Well, NOT EVERYONE believed of what you had stated about Cuba and Fidel Castro because they were being regarded as alternative facts by their detractors.
@@robertpolanco1973 Yeah well, do some research. Castro had his own luxury yacht at 88 feet. He had a personal beach and areas of the coast that were reserved exclusively for him, his family and his buddies for them to fish and scuba dive in. If that was not enough, he had a private island. Oh yes, he had his own personal farm to provide him with fresh fruit and vegetables, complete with orange groves. Meanwhile his people starved.
He had up to 20 villas across Cuba and the Caribbean. He told his people he lived in a fisherman's hut - the stinking liar! To western journalists he admitted to five to seven villas, saying he slept in a different one each night so assassins could not guess his whereabouts.
He also had numerous mistresses and indulged them in luxury.
But hey! *LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!*
@@johnrandall125 Castro liked the good life, there's no doubt about that. In western society at least we know its grab what you can. The communist dogma preaches that 'we are a collective, we are all equally poor'. Yet the most rabid communist leaders that outwardly hate western society live a life of excess that would embarrass royalty. Look at North Korea for instance. Communism just doesn't work as it's not an open economy.
Growing up in Florida, I knew they sold t-shirts with Che on them but I never saw anyone wearing one. The large Cuban culture and presence weren't going to tolerate that nonsense.
puch: Well, in Cuba, I saw people selling coins with Che's face on them for more then they were worth, to tourists. Ironically. Che has become a commodity.
All those people left cuba. Che stayed fought and won.
@@emilioesquivel6883he only things he won are the adulation of the fanatical and disinformed, and the well-deserved reputation of being a sadistic psychopath
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@@emilioesquivel6883not true, not all Cubans left during the revolution, I'd say most left because of Castro, I know my family did, and many others
justin trudeau is castros son
One would think.
You may be more correct than you know, his mother Margaret got around, and spent a lot of time with Castro, and Mick Jagger, LOL
@4:35, Castro's likeness to Trudeau is uncanny, I'm a believer.
@@peghead Funny as hell.
@@pegheadthe Trudeau's were swingers and went to Cuba.
You basically skimmed over the fact that he completely destroyed the Cuban economy. Many historians say that is mostly likely the #1 reason Castro distanced himself and sent him away. He may have been good at Chess, but knew squat about economics.
Thanks for watching
Ignorance of economics is an outstanding trait of Keynesians, Socialists and such. They know what works, they just refuse to give power and freedom to the people. They enjoy the spotlight of "savior"
Communism never delivers on its promises except they do redistribute the wealth….to themselves!! Their utopian visions always fail, but only every time😅🙏💗🇺🇸
yes, sort of like Sherman destroyed the Confederate economy, freeing the slaves and killing every Batista bastard he could find.
He lived by the sword, he died by what he gave!
Those who live by the sword will get shot by those that live by the gun.
Funny time magazine picks the worst people for its covers
Time picked people due to their effect, impact and newsworthiness, not because they were good or bad. Thanks for watching.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL I would say killing people especially non combatants is bad but mostly evil. But yeah its about selling their defunct magazine
They use the most newsworthy, at least until the Obama Administration, then they went woke before most others.
@@colinheaton4902 👍🏻
They are promoting when a cover is chosen. Its always been a rigged game played upon the common folk. Control the information, control the minds/opinion/choices made by the reader-viewers.
He was an ambitious and bloodthirsty revolutionary. He sent lots of people to their deaths. A Latin American Robespierre.
You think George washington ben Franklin and their gang were any better?
@@emilioesquivel6883 And FRANCO...🤭🤭
George Bush is responsible for killing over 1M civilians in Iraq!
Not at all ambitious in terms of personal achievement.
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Yes I do! Washington and Franklin didn't summarily execute people like Che did. To compare him to them shows how little you actually know about them. However, my Robespierre comparison is apt. If you even know who that is.
Such a great channel, Ty so much for all the time and effort you put into bringing us these great moments of history.
Glad you enjoy it!
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL A very controversial but true historical event was the attempt to create a Fascist coup by the Bush, Herriman, Ford and Dulles families in 1934. General Smedley Butler exposed it, but FDR let them get away with this treason! Could you please do a show about it?
For what it's worth, I worked with an older gentleman from Cuba who had sided with the Batista regime. He was an educated man who I believe may have been a college professor. The communists broke him physically, mentally, and emotionally. He and his wife eventually immigrated to Spain before eventually settling in the US. He never spoke to me about the treatment he received. His only comment was "I can forgive them for what they did to me, but not for what they did to my wife". So yeah, communists aren't any better then any other political group!
their considerably worse than any other political group historically and they are socialists its all the same ideology.
What
"communists aren't any better than any other political group!" They are the worst.
The Bautista regime was brutal. Castro showed up on the shores of Cuba with only 200 men on two boats. Bautista was so bad that the people didn't object to Castro and his army taking over.
@@seanm729 I’m merely saying that brutality can be inflicted by whatever regime in power. Communists are no better than any other regime.
Imagine telling the USSR they don’t know what real communism is…
It's true, they don't. Putin's government isn't real communism. It's a black market government where bribes are the currency and you don't get ahead by what you know, but WHO you know. Very much like capitalism, but way more crooked. That's why alcoholism is rampant and loyalty to the state has to be forced on the people. It's a authoritative regime, like any fascist state. True communism hasn't existed anywhere in the world for decades.
AND he was right, as history has proven!
Che watching this video: "C'mon, I wasn't THAT bad!!"
Everyone else: "That's what all communists say."
LOL
It's TRUE he wasn't that bad he had talent at his peak
@@MissCleo24 lmao. he was a disgusting murder who's only passion was to murder people rape and steal like every Marxist Socialist leftist scumbag. Immoral and evil just like Marx himself. He stole and murdered only for the dictator that was put into power. He did nothing but make things worst for the people but better for the new installed regime. He put gays and anyone who disagreed with him in concentration camps using the sign used right from Hitler. Typical. No wonder the left loves him. Glad the CIA killed this murderer . What a joke people are stupid enough where his shirt at BLM protests when the guy was a total racist and said disgusting things about black people.
@@MissCleo24 "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood!” raved Guevara in his Motorcycle Diaries (though this aspiration is omitted from liars like Howard Zinn and the lefts depiction ) “Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”
The left also leaves that the blood he loves to smell with gunpowder was from the shooting of unarmed men and boys at point blank range. vencido means surrendered.
Ya a real social justice warriors.
Charles Manson in a Beret
What I found interesting is that this video glossed over the fact that the United Fruit Company refused to pay taxes on the land that Arbenz gave back to his people. They claimed the land was unusable for crops so that was part of the reason why the Guatemalan government nationalized it and distributed back to their people. Imagine if some foreign country like China had a stronghold on American land, claimed it was useless but still made money off of it, what would we do?
We would nationalize the property and take it from China, at least under a competent administration. Thanks for watching.
Yeah funny that...wonder why so much of his history was glossed over 🤔
Also one of the biggest shareholders was a US senator and his brother, who also was a big shareholder of the the United fruit company, was the head of the CIA. The CIA conveniently convinced the president that Guatemala was becoming a communist state and was green lit to start the coup that led to a 20 year civil war. Che Guevara was a no good dirty commie but his turning point was legitimate
@@custardgannet4836 Probably the same reason when they're talking about the Holocaust, they don't go into an elaborate discourse about the Versailles treaty. One has nothing to do with the other, outside of a lame attempt to justify socialist atrocities.
The national fruit company is just as big a villain as Che. Guevara rebellion wouldn't even have existed if not for them.
I’m really happy I found your channel. I enjoy it very much.
THANK YOU! I'm afraid people are already sweeping Cold War history under the rug.
Indeed. Thanks for watching.
So true... it amazes me how people are embracing socialism and communism with no regard to the past.
@@peacefulwarrior4151 Thanks for watching.
Thanks for watching
I think those who are doing the sweeping somehow feel the wrong system of governance and economics survived.
These same people, who are doing the sweeping, changed the nature of higher education from teaching young people how to think, to a mission of teaching their charges what to think.
doctors swear to the Hippocratic Oath " I will abstain from all intentional wrong doing and harm ". Che was a monster who when caught even offered up his band of murdering revolutionaries to the Venezuelan army if the army would allow him to escape. Cuba has yet to recover from a Columbia University educated liberal lawyer dictator and a University of Buenos Aires educated murderous doctor. Hopefully that will change in the not so distant future.
Columbia University educated liberal lawyer! I had no idea. Doesn't surprise me. One of my professors at University attended UCLA with Omar Gaddafi. After WWII, I believe it was Yale who set up a satellite branch in China. Mao became the editor of the University paper and was groomed for leadership buy American influence. Henry Kissinger, Klaus Schwab's high-ranking Nazi father and Harvard University created the World Economic Forum, called by another name at that time. Klaus Schwab Junior was assigned directorship, 1971.
Che and Castro weren't murderers monsters or psychopaths and Che was captured by US backed fascists in Bolivia the only time he ever stepped foot in Venezuela was when he travelled around latin america in 1952 15 years before his execution
Spoken like a true Irish Communist@@seamusohurdail7349
Pay homage to the Nazi murderers who ruled my native Argentina from 1976 to the Falklands War, you never remember that, right?
Guevara in Franco's Spain talking to Perón about revolution in Bolivia--mind blown! This is up there with Bolívar witnessing Napoleon's coronation.
Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching.
I hate it when critics like you never speak about the atrocities we went through in Argentina from 1976 to the Falklands War, what do you care, right?
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq moi?
@@AlexanderNixonArtHistory Am I a Marxist? Yes. In 1973, the U.S. Department of State gave the government of my native Argentina a security grant, which the government used to create a death squad called Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, or Triple A. This squad kidnapped and murdered thousands of people.
I was in the u.s. army during the early 80s and we were constantly under alerts over USSR and south American threats and was also surprised by the tee shirts being wore by american students and knew the communist were in the colleges
Indeed. Thanks for watching.
Musician Carlos Santana (among others) has long worn shirts bearing the likeness of Guevara; Santana, who is often described as an American musician is actually a Mexican musician, though his success has mostly depended upon U.S. sales of his records.
Guevara was a monster, period.
Thanks for watching.
Santana did not make Mexican music , he made afro cuban music
Yeah rich Americans would not do good under a Che or a Castro
@@kenhoyer8601 We had Trump
@@luisvelez5695 we had ( have ) trump, but Che was a revolutionary. Trump has no ideology , just narcissism
Che was one of those people whose romantic image overwhelmed the facts about his murderous psychopathology. I understand that picture of him starring off into eternity which formed a lot of this image was taken by accident when he stepped in front of a French cameraman who was trying to photograph Castro. The image became popular during the French protests of 1968 about college dorm visiting policies.
Thanks for watching.
College students were as ignorant and naive then as they are today.
and yet you completely supported stalin during the war!
@@patrickmulroney9452 By "you" I assume that you mean the USA. Given that, I'll just say that "complete" support is an exaggeration.
@@robertrodes1546 Complete support might be a slight overstatement, but FDR sold the Poles down the river with barely a second thought.
Great info about a sadistic man. Him being dead is a blessing to the world.
We can only wish all commie assholes join che maybe in hell they will finally build their utopia since on earth they only create hell
I would like to see the so called revolutionary heroes disinterred and their ashes scattered on the sea. Bad enough Cuba is host to such depraved monsters. The monastery that’s Cuba exceeds for inhumanity Robert Owens’ notorious phalansteries.
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All socialists are the same - national, international or otherwise. Racist exploitative hypocritical mafioso.
So Hitler was not a sadist after all, right?
I always have questions answered in your videos. Thank you.
Happy to help!
He is not even saying the name right😂😂😂..typical yankee
Thanks for this nice, tight summary. I'd he was say psychopath. What always makes me laugh is how that one picture of his face has adorned so many T-shirts, yet most kids who wear them have no idea whom he is. Be well.
Agreed in total, thanks for watching.
No argument
Agreed. I'm surprised that people don't remember who guevara was.
@@jonnmostovoy2406 Many people today under 30 could not tell you who Stalin and Castro were
I wear it proudly and know exactly what he did and who he was. Not the blatant lies in this joke of a video
I laugh at the ignorance of the sissy college students wearing their Che t shirts, most of whom he would have eliminated.
The day you die for your ideas. The day you become a doctor and go to cure lepers in the Amazon River... then I will respect your opinion.
@@ElMundogiralreves
Yeah, evil people sometimes do good things.
I cry at the United States fostering murderous far-right or neo-Nazi regimes who killed dozens of thousands of South Americans, not that you will care.
😂😂😂 same thing when I see the recruitment offices and the poor souls signing up.
I remember walking past a gay pride event in Eastleigh, England seeing Chè's face plastered all over pride flags thinking they are so oblivious to who that man actually was
Indeed.
He would have had every one of them strung up and shot. Their ignorance is embarrassing
Yep hated gays .treated women like playthings .they couldn’t listen to any other music but Cuban music Cubans had an underground music scene that played rock n roll .but if they were caught ,you could only imagine what happened to them , .as we say, he was a proper C### .
Che literally killed no one for being gay lmao. Bad empanada does a great job showing this and even uses the gusano cuba archive to do it
@@craigpimlott204source? Who told you this because you didnt read it from an any credible historian? Let me guess some slave farmer that fled cuba told you?
Love this channel as i am learning history that i was not taught in school
Thank you kindly
Another US Marine remembered the role of "American companies in Latin America" quite differently. Went by the name of Smedley Butler. Just another perspective to consider here.
We have an episode on him as well.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL I didn't care for the way you sidestepped the exploitation of the American Fruit Company.
Arbenz offered to compensate UFC for the land as based on the tax value the company's own accountants declared.
Gen. Butler was a hushed prophet. Amazing American who tried his best to warn about the way things work. He still would have taken care of Che in the ways of the Corps. Problem solved. Different times in history.
Of course they sidestepped it, or did you really believe this was an unbiased and truthful portrayal of Che and the United Fruit Company! LOL @@JamesLee-mp8hk
People forget that most kids idolize Che not because he is a communist, but for simply being a rebel, for sticking it to the man, which in his case, was the US. He was fiercely devoted to his truth that he killed for it, died for it. His romantic death in the hands of the CIA, which has always been painted as bad guys, made him a legend, martyr, saint.
Thanks for watching.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL thanks for posting! Always nice to hear/ see different side to a story.
So why do the same geeks today wearing this demons shirt love Joe Biden and this corrupt government/ big pharma zombies
I can't think of any situation where the CIA was "the good guys".
He was legendary for his body odor. He wasn't called " el chanco " for nothing. He rarely bathed.
Thank you for this iteration !
Been an Irish person. Jim Fitzpatrick is known as a great artist he drew record covers for bands that had the Celtic design and he drew for advertising too.👍
The land confiscated by Arbenz did belong to United Fruit but it was not exploited, his own family was one of those whose land was partly seized and those reforms improved the quality of life so much that Guatemala was named country #1 for something... Oxfam I think. United Fruit's lawyers happened to be the Dulles brothers so the CIA declared Arbenz was a communist, a coup was organized and hundreds of thousands of peasants ended up brutally murdered.
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we appreciate you watching.
correct.
Standard practice for U.S. hegemon in Latin America to have democratically elected leaders coupd so that a leader of the CIA's choosing can be put in place that will dance along.
Agreed. Che was bad but justifying the United Fruit company’s actions as okay because they gave jobs was bs.
The most popular poster in college kids dorms was his face which I could never understand.
Thanks for watching
Ignorance.
It's because the band Rage Against The Machine used the image to represent universal struggle against oppression and that was appealing to college aged kids
Early on things I saw led me to believe he was a great revolutionary, but as time passed and more info came to my attention, I realized he was just another person who started with possibly good intentions... But later was consumed by his own faults...
Thanks for watching
Communism it’s monic ideology that has murdered millions of innocent human lives and when you in any attempt to romanticize him I see you have been polluted by Marxism and I loose respect for your views! Communism has been the greatest evil the world has ever seen!!!
I've always heard that he was not the hero that is portrayed. I didn't know the actual history. It's great to have some argumentative ammo against the ones who idolize him.
He murdered and raped people? That should be enough. Thanks for watching.
Just discovered this channel.👍
A great topic to cover: the USS Library incident.
Will consider. Thanks for watching.
Not gonna happen
Excellent presentation. I recommend the books of Humberto Fontova for more on the subject.
Thanks for watching!
We appreciate it
You recommend the books of a well known fraudulent liar? How fitting.
Nice video. I take issue, though, with your assertion that United Fruit Company was some benevalent entity who gave jobs to locals. There is a lot more to this. Part of it had to due to rampant corruption and manipulation by UFC. Part of it had to do with American interference in order to keep things at the status-quo so the money could still be made. This included an engineered overthrow of the government "justified" by saying the existing government was a "communist" threat. I don't call a country offering money to UFC to buy back their land (at the value UFC claimed it was worth) "communism". Then there was the subsequent military dictatorship which tortured, jailed, and/or killed a few hundred thousand people. And to show how woven corruption is with stuff like this, note that George HW Bush's old company (he cofounded Zapata Oil, a CIA connected company) bought UFC (also CIA connected) in the late 1960s. Bush went on to be CIA director and, eventually, US president. And, I believe, in 1981 (when Bush was VP), the SEC filings for Zapata from 1960-1966 were somehow "lost". You cannot make this stuff up.
True, the hands were dirty and the hooks ran deep. Thanks for watching.
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL ok so don’t say stupid shit like they were given jobs and they were great economic progress with no exploitation going on.
Great Work!!! I was born in (1952) our existence in America has always been threatened from the outside but now it is being threatened from inside out!!??
You're absolutely right.
Seems that way
That is truly the only way the US can be defeated, is from within
Time to hit the brakes on the institutions, and take them back from the "woke" neo-Marxists!
Yes, it’s being threatened by supporters of a twice impeached insurrectionist ex-president who amplified people’s inner hatred to create division.
No mention of his racism?
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Another great presentation… A video on Cesar Chavez would be a great topic as well. S/F
Possibly, he was controversial. Thanks for watching
Cubans hate Cesar but love Che...
Among his theories regarding revolution was the reasons didn't have to exist, the revolutionaries could create them. I think it was based on this reasoning that as soon as the revolutionaries started the government in question would start oppressing the people and the people would turn to the revolutionaries. It didn't work out that way. Case in point the locals in Bolivia helped direct the government soldiers against Guevara. Also the Tupamaros of Uruguay tried a similar revolution with the theory that they could start a revolution and people would follow them also backfired. What happened was the military took over what was supposed to be moderate democracy and turned it into a military dictatorship. While his manual on guerrilla warfare is interesting, the theories put forth clearly don't work. I also get a kick out of the fact he lost to mercenary commander Mad Mike Hoare while leading troops in the Congo.
Good info, thanks for watching.
remember the true mantra of all revolutions; once the revolution is won, the revolutionaries themselves are no longer needed. That's because the fighters are promised utopia, and then realize they get hell instead. That is why every revolution purges its own who helped the cause, and then began re-educating the next generation into the doctrine.
I've read several sources that some Black Green Berets helped to frustrate him in the Congo, intending to embarrass and make him a laughing stock instead of killing him.
@@terrykeever9422 Very possible, the CIA was down there and the pilots who flew from the Congo were ex-Cubans paid by the CIA.
You forget marinus van der lubbe arsonist who burn down reichstag.
In his warp mind he believe by burning down reichstag.the german people will rise up and overthrown the authority and establish a marxist state.instead the real beneficial was hitler.
An Upper Class and Never working class spoiled self proclaimed Messiah who o ce boasted, "We executed hundreds without ever knowing if they were innocent or guilty. Just believing in their guilt was enough to justify killing them".
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Are you sure you're not talking about the Ku Klux Klan?
Part of Che's hatred of America was formed at the end of his famous motorcycle trip, when he went to work for the Venezuelan national polo team, which agreed to pay his way back to Argentina if he worked for them as a groom during their trip to Miami. While there, he was impressed by the extravagant lifestyle of the polo crowd, while he barely had enough money to feed himself. Basically, it boiled down to simple jealousy.
Like all socialists, they are jealous of success.
Is it really jealousy or is it simple human nature? Many of the current mega wealthy are so tight with their money that they will never spend more than a fraction of it. What is the benefit of having that much money and not doing something vaguely good with it? If a multi billionaire paid his workers twice what he does now he would hardly notice it in real terms but his workers would have much more money to spend and that would effectively help make the rich even richer.
The hunger for justice is not jealousy. It may appear so to those who covet everything they see.
@@fgoindarkg Very eloquently said!
@@fgoindarkg Justice? Was Che acting with "justice" when he forced his grandmother's servant girl to have sex with him? Yeah, he'd get up from the table, shove her into the kitchen, bang her, and go back to the table. Of course, if Grammy wasn't there, he'd bang her right at the table, even when he brought friends over.
"Oh, but he hadn't achieved Revolutionary Consciousness yet!" you would argue.
Fine. Was he acting with justice when he stepped in and blew Eutimio Guerra's head off? You see, after Fidel, Che, & their buddies crashed the Granma (Fidel's boat) and began their "invasion", they hired a poor local farm kid to be their guide. Batista's army got ahold of young Eutimio and coerced him into giving up the rebels' position. When Fidel found out, he ordered Eutimio's execution. The other rebels thought that was too harsh a sentence, and the two men who were assigned to do the job balked. That was when Che, who had mostly been just a hanger-on up to that point, stepped in and shot the kid. That impressed Fidel, which was why he made Che a commander.
"Oh, but it was a war! It was for the greater good!" you will no doubt whine. How about this: When Che was commander of La Cabana prison, he ordered the executions of thousands of so-called Batista supporters. The problem was that Batista's supporters had almost all fled the country. Che killed innocent people just to intimidate the public so that they wouldn't resist the new Castro regime.
Was Che acting with justice when he forced people to "volunteer" for unpaid work cutting sugar cane, load ships, etc.? Was he acting with justice when he ducked out on 2 wives, at least 6 children, and who knows how many mistresses, just so that he could run around playing revolutionary?
You have been brainwashed by the Castro regime's propaganda. And that makes you extremely uncool.
Hey, if you're looking for some fun summer reading, check out Che's African diaries. After the Castro brothers got tired of him, they set him up as roving revolutionary in the Congo. His diary tells how poor, utterly clueless Che stumbled around Africa, getting his ass kicked the whole time. It's absolutely hilarious!
"What's it like to kill a human being? I don't know, I've only killed communists" -- Rafal Gan-Ganowicz
Every kid sitting in a coffee shop with a che t shirt should hear thi
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I noticed the same thing and think they have no clue... It's just "cool" I guess to wear it because they have seen others or have a complete lack of knowledge on his history.
That fad was 20 years ago - nobody wears that anymore
I still see them
@@josephconrad2819 Me too and I shake my head.... Lets wear a shirt of a mass murderer like he is some kind of hero! Kids have it backwards, this guy is utter trash look for a new hero.
Very thorough bio. Nice for including Barbie also.
Glad you liked it!
Excellent! Love Forgotten History❤
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Very interesting video. I have learned new things which i didn't know about before, such as Guevara's intention to use atomic weapons against the United States.
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Some authors describe him as being horrendously racist as well and citing that as one reason for his failure in the Congo.
Our research did not reveal any racial bias, but he had enough other issues to make him a bad hombre. Thanks for watching
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL True, he had MANY issues.
Some authors also think the Earth is flat, so what mate.
@@Jgasporrap it doesn't seem unreasonable considering his documented inhumanity and absolute abject failure in Africa. Are you a Che apologist? And I am not your mate.
@@ftdefiance1 I think you scared him mate. 😂
“Although accounts vary, it is estimated that several hundred people were executed nationwide during this time, with Guevara's jurisdictional death total at La Cabaña ranging from 55 to 105.”(National Archives)
Don’t know where you came up with 20,000.
Writing in the Washington Post in 1997, documentary filmmaker Saul Landau described Guevara as a “tough disciplinarian who impassively dispatched traitors [but] also refused to let enemy wounded go untreated” - a man who built hospitals and schoolrooms, whose “love for the unknown masses” drove him to entirely sacrifice his own physical comfort in pursuit of a more just society.
French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre praised the guerrilla leader as “not only an intellectual, but also the most complete human being of our age”.
Che was complicated, but the 20,000 deaths were a result of his directives, not his personal actions. The National Archives record refers to his personal involvement. Remember that he had wounded men executed. Thanks for watching.
Pol Pot probably pursued the idea of a "more just society" as well.
Pol Pot was a genuine crockpot psychopath that would have never taken power had not the dynamic duo, Nixon/Kissinger, not depose the peaceful prince Norodom Sihanouk. And thank god it a North Vietnamese Army blitzkrieg that got rid of him.
And Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Blair.@@peghead
That’s a lot of lies in a 13 minute video. Did you copy and paste straight from the CIA website?
Thank you. Great mini documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Never trust a man that can't grow a beard
LOL
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@@TheLast-One lol
That was a switch for a doctor and humanitarian to decide in one moment on his way to Havana that the only way to succeed was to be completely ruthless.
he surely followed the "Revolutionaries" version of the Hippocratic Oath
Very very informative.
Elucidating the phenomenon of Guvera.
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Ask cuban Americans what they think of Che. Most of them hate him.
Even back then Time magazine showed it's communist tendencies by glorifying him. Incidentally Bolivia is now pretty much a socialist country.
Bolivia socialist? Check Wikipedia.
CHE was a mercenary, he loved the adventure, CHE didn't give a rats ass of anyone's political agenda.
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And you know that, how?.
you forgot MASS MURDERER
Mercenary? Where did you get that? Who paid him? Where did you get your facts?
@@miken2604 Che did not commit mass murder
Alot of history we are taught is wrong.
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Thanks Colin, that was really interesting. Although I've seen The Motorcycle Diaries movie, it was enlightening to see what he did afterwards as a revolutionary.
He was a contradictory figure to be sure. Thanks for watching.
Great vid... thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks again!
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@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL thanks for uploading this, my great uncle needs to be exposed for the sociopath he was.
@@colinheaton4902 there are an awful lot of young useful idiots in the comments who still think he was a hero.
I think I can trump anyone with 'crazy great uncle' stories.
chilling to think we're related.
Awesome video.Thanks.
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Great channel!! I'd like to know more about what the German people thought of Hitler, Nazism, and collective guilt in 1945-46-47
That would be complex, and depended upon with whom you spoke. Thanks for watching.
He was a monster
Yes. Thanks for watching.
This is a great video. But the problem is verification. This is one account. There are other opposing accounts. Whether we like him or dislike him, we need to find the truth first. Perhaps the truth about Che Guevarra is more complex. I'm always skeptical of any account, because it's hard to know whom to believe. I think we need to be skeptical and believe only conditionally until better or more accurate information comes forth, if that is even possible. There may be much truths in many accounts as well as falsehoods. Again, it's important to remember that it's hard to verify any one account.
We reviewd the many accounts to summarize him. He was a very complex person, but the good deeds he did, as well as the bard are irrefutable. Castro got rid of him as a result. Thanks for watching.
I agree it’s very interesting that we especially in America want to take people from history and classify them as either being good or bad I’ll tell you one thing he was pretty brave he lived a pretty outlawed life
@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL sounds like a load of hogwash
Or you can know him by this statement of truth, "if it walks like a duck an quacks like a duck it must be a duck". Or if it kills and rapes like a murderer and is a bigot and homophob, it must be che
Young people don't realize he turtured and killed so many
He did it to the ones who deserved it
@@just_a_turtle_chad No one deserves it
@@MissCleo24 Please study more on him, he did terrible things!!!
@@MissCleo24 Women and children deserved it?!
Young people do not realize how brutally neo-Nazis tortured, raped, and killed in my native Argentina from 1976 to the Falklands War: people like you can't care less.
CIA do love their trophies.
Thank you for another great production! Would love your take on Geronimo's fate, and the fate of Geronimo's bones.
Last I saw them, was under glass at The Tomb.
Several great stories like that, Sitting Bull also. Thanks for watching.
Ask any young person wearing a Che shirt who he was and they stutter some lines about all the good he did in the world.
He killed people .....for politics.
Like Bush and WMDs in Iraq. American's actions create monsters. Not a hand raise for the slaughter of children in schools.
Ignorance is BLISS!
Says a guy commenting on Che to get noticed LOL
@@MissCleo24 He oversaw the executions of over 30K Cuban citizens for political reasons. That was one tenth of the population at the time.
Communist love to tell you about all the great things that they have accomplished but they never like to discuss the cost and in many cases the good is exaggerated for propaganda.
That is the trouble with power....it corrupts.Anyone can have power for it lays at our feet just waiting for anyone willing to stoop low enough to pick it up.However it takes someone to be strong enough to use it for good and not be captivated by the evil it holds.
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At UC San Diego, they have a café named after him, and nearby there's a Ho Chi Minh trail that leads to Black's Beach.
California, it figures. Thanks for watching.
Time magazine has always had a soft spot for communists.
Magpul industries had a limited edition "Dead Che" T-shirt. It was his death photo.
Interesting, thanks for watching
That's disgusting!
@@michaelpalmieri7335 its hilarious
Thank you. Very well done.
Thank you too!
We appreciate it
che waa and is revolutionary symbol for many against social, economical injustice and especially imperialism. He is a hero and will be throughout history. and if he killed many people dont forget he was also killed by boilivia and cia
I have to say that the older I get, the less I trust people who claim to be telling the truth. Unless I can find indisputable proof myself, I am always sceptical.
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So if you go carrying pictures of comrad Che, it ain’t gonna make you with anyone anyway.
Your so right. While fighting communist in Vietnam at Sea Float we went to movie night and the movie was titled "CHÉ". Nice movie Navy.
You need to do better research my friend.” United fruit provided jobs” yes! But they paid workers with vouchers to be redeemed at United fruit shops. You cant take your child to the doctor and pay for medicine with United fruit vouchers. That’s why workers constantly revolted.
Other than posing for an iconic photo, did he ever do anything worthwhile that improved the lives of people?
Complicated, but yes he did do some good. Thanks for watching.
I watched the movie Che with Benício Del Toro, the physical resemblance between them is almost frightening
It is a Hollywood movie!
I met the man who ‘terminated’ Che and had a Polaroid of his hands to prove it. He was a Cuban expatriate who was employed by the CIA and was quite a fascinating person.
Say, I'm a proud fascist, nobody here will mind. What about arresting Guevara and taking him to trial? An eye for an eye, right?
My new favorite podcast! Thank you, Sir
Thank you kindly
He was more vicious than i had believed, he was a mini Hitler . It was strange how he and the castro brothers were rich .
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@@MissCleo24bro is so desperate to defend a man that killed homosexuals😂
Name one person Che murdered? I will wait. This video full of falsehoods and propaganda
Castro and Che fault an arm struggle to liberate the Cuban lower class which was majority of Cuba at the time and killed counter revolutionaries and enemies ( which were indeed real people). Adolf Hitler murdered millions off a stupid conspiracy theory of Jews running the world that wasn’t true and went to murder people because they were mentally ill, homosexual, Jews, and anyone not white.
There’s a bit of difference don’t you think. To say he’s a mini Hitler is just stupid.
he's the guy who said he liked the combined smell of blood and gunpowder
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Fascinating video. In the book, The Double Life of Fidel Castro, written by Sanchez, the personal bodyguard of Fidel (Sanchez has a rather benign view of Fidel in my view) quotes Che something like "I love killing people." The incidents and quotes related in various comments here prove this true. I would love to see a video on this channel about the Cuban fighter pilot who flew his Mig fighter jet to Florida, then went back and picked up his family in a Cessna on a remote road, right under Fidel's nose. it is an awesome story related in the book.
Good call. Thanks for watching
WHATEVER anyone would say but he is still an icon of free mind from Paris to Tehran
All terrorists have their gods.
Yeah putting complete morons who happened to be sadistic killers in charge of your was such a great idea.
Psychopath with power how many did he have gunned down how many he do do himself the body count was enormous ....
Guevara was not a psychopath, you have your mental diagnosis all wrong.
Wow, when you read off his bio at the end, that could fit most of hereos in history!
Many villains started out with good intentions. Thanks for watching