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Book on Soldier Who Saved Fidel Castro Launched in Cuba
The book "Las ideas no se matan" (Ideas Can Not Be Killed), about Pedro Sarria Tartabull, the soldier who saved Fidel Castro after the attack on the Moncada Garrison, was launched at the Abel Santamaria Museum-Park in this eastern province.
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The book "Las ideas no se matan" (Ideas Can Not Be Killed), about Pedro Sarria Tartabull, the soldier who saved Fidel Castro after the attack on the Moncada Garrison, was launched at the Abel Santamaria Museum-Park in this eastern province.
The City's Historian and National Social Science prizewinner, Dr. Olga Portuondo, described the text as a historiographical gem, and said the lieutenant was in the precise time and place to conduct the leader of that feat until the municipal jail and avoid his annihilation.
She recalled that Sarria was an educated man, who knew the history of his country and in full maturity of his political consciousness, which is behind that phrase naming the volume, said by him after ordering the soldiers under his command not to shoot the young prisoners.
The author, Enrique Pardo Galindo, who lived next to the soldier for being married his daughter Ninfa, recalled that the inspiration to write these pages emerged since he met him and appreciated his modesty, despite the gesture of enormous courage he had to protect Fidel even against a hierarchical superior.
The book, published by Oriente publishing house, is considered the result of a debt with the officer of the army of Fulgencio Batista's tyranny. A bust will be also unveiled along with the July 26 Historical Museum, located at the fortress attacked by those young revolutionaries in 1953.
Other publications related to the event at the premise that is part of the monumental area, where on Friday, July 26, the Cubans will celebrate six decades of the feat that marked the beginning of the last stage of the liberating deed in the nation, will be released today.
The City's Historian and National Social Science prizewinner, Dr. Olga Portuondo, described the text as a historiographical gem, and said the lieutenant was in the precise time and place to conduct the leader of that feat until the municipal jail and avoid his annihilation.
She recalled that Sarria was an educated man, who knew the history of his country and in full maturity of his political consciousness, which is behind that phrase naming the volume, said by him after ordering the soldiers under his command not to shoot the young prisoners.
The author, Enrique Pardo Galindo, who lived next to the soldier for being married his daughter Ninfa, recalled that the inspiration to write these pages emerged since he met him and appreciated his modesty, despite the gesture of enormous courage he had to protect Fidel even against a hierarchical superior.
The book, published by Oriente publishing house, is considered the result of a debt with the officer of the army of Fulgencio Batista's tyranny. A bust will be also unveiled along with the July 26 Historical Museum, located at the fortress attacked by those young revolutionaries in 1953.
Other publications related to the event at the premise that is part of the monumental area, where on Friday, July 26, the Cubans will celebrate six decades of the feat that marked the beginning of the last stage of the liberating deed in the nation, will be released today.