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Title: from such material revolutionaries are made
Review: What is striking about Victor Dreke's story is not what is different about the man, but how similar the youth was to so many others in his day and in ours. It also shows the kind of person who is made by, and makes, a great revolution.Dreke was a Afro-Cuban teenager of the 1950s who did not know that you can't fight city hall -- or in his case, the presidential palace. He joined the battle against the vicious and corrupt Batista dictatorship, and the social and economic system it defended. In doing so, he joined the struggle of sugar refinery workers and met the militants of Fidel Castro's Rebel Army. He stuck with the struggle for the long term, taking leadership responsibilities in everything from the fight against counter-revolutionary gangs, organized and directed by the U.S. government, to armed combat in the Congo against Mobutu Sese Seko's regime.
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