https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9b497bb2-04dd-4330-8d4c-314ff4b45613 Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/_QDE4V5kLe8 Narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis, “Castro-Cuba and Communism: Danger on Our Doorstep” (1960) is a black-and-white documentary film depicting the Cuban Revolution from its beginnings. The film, which is split into two parts, takes on an explicit anti-Communist propagandized tone. This particular film is part 2 of the film and focuses on Cuba under Castro and the “Fidelistas,” covering issues of political repression, agrarian reforms, and Soviet-Cuban diplomatic relations. Castro, Dr. Manuel Urrutia with press (0:07). General Eulogio Cantillo last line of defense against Castro, arrested and tried (0:36). Public support for Castro, revolutionary banners (0:53). Trucks of “Fidelistas” arrive in Havana (1:14). Che Guevara press conference in Havana (1:21). Fidelista military parade, trucks and tanks (T17E1 Staghound) (1:31). Castro enters Havana in triumph, waves from motorcade to crowds (1:38). Camilo Cienfuegos watches Castro speak at Camp Columbia (2:26). Military parades continue; Revolutionary army ride on top of trucks, perhaps M-50 tanks (2:50). Statue of Liberty in Matanzas; Jose Marti statue (3:22). Cubans in exile in Miami (3:48). 26th July Movement rallies across Havana; Appearances by Celia Sánchez (4:23). Castro visits Venezuela, honorary degree at university (4:41). Castro visits New York’s Central Park (5:25). Executions of Batista supporters: Rebel points to bloody marks on walls, torture marks on man’s back (5:40). Castro's rebels talk to lawyer during trial against Fulgencio Batista (5:58). Rebels demonstrate torture devices, weapons, skulls and remains (6:04). Colonel Cornelio Rojas led to firing squad (6:31). Trials with Batista supporters and officials (7:07). Crowd celebrates success of revolution (8:20). Antonio Nunez Jimenez takes over Agrarian Reform Institute (8:36). Che Guevara with comrades (9:19). New President, Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado talks to crowd (9:22). Perhaps Soviet Tupolev Tu-114 lands in Havana, Anastas Mikoyan disembarks plane, meets with President Torrado, attends party with Castro (9:30). Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (I.N.R.A.) Sugar cane plantation, pasture lands (10:36). Castro at I.N.R.A. HQ (11:05). Metal housing for agrarian workers; Government subsidized East Havana housing project (11:30). Training civilian militias (11:55). French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana Harbor (12:16). Castro addresses public, blames US spies for explosion (13:22). Christian Anti-Communist group in Key West, Florida; Castro hanged in effigy (14:07). Democratic Revolutionary front in Miami formed; Anti-Castro forces band together under leadership Manuel Antonio de Varona (14:21). Anti-Castro demonstration in New York’s Central Park (14:55). Havana hotels empty: Riviera Hotel-Casino, Hotel Capri and deserted reception (15:22). Castro hosts television program 'The Television World Asks,' shot of him looking at passport (15:39). Spanish ambassador arrives on set accusing Castro of slandering him, Castro orders him out of Cuba; Castro supporters take to street in support of Castro’s decree (16:16). Revista de Avance printing HQ, workers inside stalled printing press as Government takes control of media and implements censorship (17:02). Ministry of Labor takes over nation's tobacco industry (17:24). Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa disembarks plane, tour of Iron Curtain countries to strengthen Cuban-Communist relations (17:26). Sergei Kudryavtsev, chosen as Soviet Ambassador to Cuba, observe fruit packing plant (17:48). Visits by Polish, Chinese and other Communist delegations in Cuba; Tours of industrial plants (17:58). May Day parade 1960 at Plaza de la Revolution in Havana; Castro, Che Guevara, other officials give speeches to massive crowd (18:09). Russian oil tanker arrives in Havana Harbor; Seizure of Texaco, Shell and Esso refineries in Cuba for refusing to process crude Russian oil (19:02). Chinese delegation arrives in Cuba (19:37). 7th Anniversary 26th July Movement celebrations (20:16). Castro at First Latin American Youth Congress, Cerro Stadium in Havana (20:43). Castro disembarks plane in New York City as head of Cuban delegation to United Nations (21:45). Surrounded by New York Police (NYPD) Officers, Castro embraces Nikita Khrushchev in Harlem (22:22). United Nations Headquarters, Castro 4 hour address at 15th meeting of General Assembly (22:58). End (25:30). 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