Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and Mao Zedong - 1832 Words

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and Mao Zedong Fidel Castro and Mao Zedong. Two men who shaped their respective countries into what they are today. One an enemy of the west and the other close to approaching a friend. Without these two men the political landscape of the world might be extremely different than what it is today. Castro almost inciting nuclear war between 2 superpowers and Mao putting his country on track to have an economy the rivals even the US. Castro who brought his country close to Russia while Mao pulled away from them. Both brought radical change to their countries; both used propaganda to a heavy extent. They both believed that communism was the way forward and thought that their party was the only way forward for their country. Though they did some good a lot of bad can be seen with them as well. Mao is considered responsible for between 40 million and 70 million deaths in just 4 years(CITE) making him responsible for more deaths than almost all of the other dictato rs of the world combined. While Castro is considered the reason his country is in shambles and only just starting to recover today. Both started revolutions that tore their country apart. But to see just how similar yet different these men are we have to look into their lives more closely than statistics and facts. We have to see how they got their power and what they did with it when they did. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in Birà ¡n Cuba on August 13th 1926. After being baptized at age 8