Via Instapundit.
And yes, you guessed right: I'm not a Che fan. But then I remember watching on TV clips from the post-revolutionary tribunals. And I remember thinking that young Raoul in particular looked like a mean little bastard. I was a Young Tory then, of course.
Hrm . . . Prolly, I was watching hockey or something when these aired; but, more likely, they didn't air in Canada.
ReplyDeleteThe image on the Ts is based on what I now know is "the most famous photograph in the world"; at least, it is, according to the glow-job page on Ernesto @ Wikipedia.
Is it just me or is this simply more of the same ol' shame ol' propaganda?
IMO, the most famous photograph in the world *might* be the one featuring Marilyn Monroe in the white dress standing on the grate; or, equally, it might well be the photograph of nine-year-old Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc running naked, skin burning with napalm, in the road. The image of planting the American flag on the moon? The rows of crosses in Flanders Fields with the poppies? The plane hitting the second tower?
There are several photographs that come to mind, in fact. The one snapped by Alberto Korda is not one of them, at least, not to my mind (but I do remember the T and I never liked it, it always looked scary to me, just aesthetically speaking, now).
Guevera was trained as a doctor; it will never cease to amaze me how horrifically he disgraced the Hippocratic Oath:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
Read up on this creep and weep.
(Oh, yeah, the word, "che?" Pig. That's what I call poetic justice.)