Green Shoots: Revolution, love and solidarity
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Fidel Castro and Che Guevara entered Havana on New Year's Day in 1959. This followed years of fighting in the Sierra Maestra mountains. The event created visions of heroism for young revolutionaries. These images often included the image of cigar-smoking revolutionary style.
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marching into Havana on New Year’s Day in 1959 after years of fighting from the Sierra Maestra mountains would fill any young revolutionary’s head with giddy visions of heroism, and cigar-smoking revolutionary swag.