Simba rebellion
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The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis
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Gaston Soumialot (center right) in 1965
Christophe Gbenye (left) and General Nicholas Olenga (right), before the Patrice Lumumba monument in Stanleyville, 1964
Official pass issued by the People's Republic of the Congo, the communist government declared by the Simbas
Che Guevara
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized vi
Simba rebellion
…attributing an ideology to the rebellion is very complex. Whilst the leaders claimed to be influenced by Chinese Maoist ideas, the Cuban military advisor Che Guevara wrote that the majority of the fighters did not hold these views. Some fighters also practised a system of traditional beliefs which held that correct…
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Ernesto aged 5 in 1933
Teenage Ernesto (left) with his parents and siblings, c. 1944. Left to right: Celia (mother), Celia (sister), Roberto, Juan Martín, Ernesto (father) and Ana María