Reflections by Comrade Fidel
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
PARADE
Today I had the privilege of watching the impressive
parade with which our people commemorated the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
proclamation of the Socialist character of the Revolution and the Playa Girón
Victory.
The Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba was
also opened today.
I really enjoyed the detailed account of the parade as
well as the music, gestures, faces, intelligence, gallantry and fighting spirit
of our people. I also enjoyed seeing the
happy face of Mabelita, sitting on her wheelchair, and the children and
teenagers of “
It is worth having lived to watch this spectacle
today and is also worth remembering forever those who died to make it happen.
This afternoon, during the opening of the Sixth
Congress, I was able to notice in the words expressed by Raul and the faces of
the delegates to that event, the most important of our Party, the same feeling
of pride.
I could have been at the Revolution Square perhaps
for one hour under the sun and the heat, but not three hours. I could have felt attracted by the human
warmth that was created there, and that would have been a dilemma for me.
Believe me; it hurt me when I saw that some of you
were looking up, trying to find me at the tribune. I thought you will all understand that I can
no longer do what I did so many times.
I promised you I would be a soldier of the ideas, and
I can still fulfill that duty.
April 16, 2011
7:14 p.m.