Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.