And in fact, in santa clara, supporters would make molotov cocktails for them and pass them out the windows so they could be used. So this happened, like, december 30, 1958. News filters out that they have managed to seize this train, and men go in, and it is like aladdins cave. They have hundreds of guns, machine guns, mortars, bazookas, and its this extraordinary thing. And word gets back to havana on new years eve, and the dictator , whose main worry at this stage was that there would be a military coup, or that he would be arrested and put on trial, decides to cut and run. So he has a regular new Years Eve Party, and if you have seen godfather part ii, its more or less accurate. He has a new Years Eve Party , has his chicken and rice at the cup of brandy, and then he reads a statement that he is about to leave havana, about to abandon cuba. And there are three dc4s waiting on the airstrip with a list of names of people who are coming with him. And people start running to the ofplan
Regular soldier in many cases looked very much like the one im wearing. The difference being, they would have the raised collar and they would have epaulets. Trotsky took the red army and said, i want to make it a working mans army. When you go to work, you dont wear a suit that has a raised collar and epaulets. You have a suit that has a laydown collar. As we saw on the front of that book, that was the early war uniform. It was a simple smock. The Rank Insignia were on the collar. As the war progressed, there was more and more reference to the past, to the heroics of the military achievement under the czars. So, a lot of the changes were made to kind of encourage that, to reinforce that. So, later on during the war, the uniform was now changed back to, in a sense, the czaristtype looking uniform. Again, the medals came back. Medals were prolific. The guard medals, the idea that there were famous czarist units. Now we were going to have elite Red Army Units to raise morale and encourag
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