To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.
— Che Guevara Modern

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Context

Speech at La Cabaña fortress, Havana

Date / Period

1959

Category

Shocking

Source

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/world/che-s-grim-legacy-to-cuba-and-the-world…

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