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Pic 1 - a 3 peso banknote, featuring Che Guevara’s portrait, a Cuban special forces patch, and a DVD case for the movie “I am Cuba/Soy Cuba” a 1964 Soviet-Cuban coproduction anthology film about the Cuban Revolution. This movie garnered almost exclusively negative reception in both Cuba and the USSR when it released, and it was lost to time for about 30 years. In the mid 90s it was rediscovered by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who immediately fell in love with it and set out to restore it and rerelease it in DVD form. Personally i think it is a fantastic movie and i highly recommend it if you are interested in Cuba or the cold war in general.

Pic 2 - Cuban Tropas Especiales uniform, in “amoeba” camouflage pattern. This uniform was adopted sometime in the 90s i believe and is still worn by Cuban special forces today.

Pic 3 - reproduction OSPAAAL poster of Che Guevara superimposed over the silhouette of South America

Pic 4 - real OSPAAAL poster depicting Vladimir Putin as a vampire? On the reverse side it has a short biography of Putin, and a note about how Cuba and China abstained from condemning his invasion of Ukraine. This poster came for free alongside the Guevara one, and honestly i’m not sure what message it’s trying to convey. It looks cool though.

u/BusinessFirst3662 — 12 days ago