Fidel Castro has died

• Died Fidel Castro

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90 years. This was announced by his brother Raul Castro. Fidel Castro has served as head of the Council of State and Ministers of Cuba for 30 years, since 1976. He also performs the functions of Commander of the revolutionary armed forces and led the National Defense Council of the country. Castro transferred his powers to his brother Raul in 2006, due to deteriorating health. Overthrew the Batista dictatorship and became a long-term ally of the Soviet Union, Castro became a symbol of revolutionary changes. A supporter of authoritarian methods, he nevertheless never stood next to a brutal dictator - misanthropic ideas were always foreign to him. Castro survived many attacks, but kept the irony and good spirits, he made friends with many former enemies and has played host to Pope Francis, who treated him as "my son", because once Castro was also a Catholic. Cuba brother passing and changing the shape of an olive on adidasovsky suit, he still tried to stay cheerful and occasionally was writing articles for the newspaper "Granma", still cursing the Americans, but did not prevent the changes that are taking place under the leadership of his brother Raul.

The Three Ages of Fidel Castro: 1961, 2000, 2016.

Fidel Castro during a visit to Leningrad kindergarten № 17, 1963

Fidel Castro speaks to the militias at the time of the decisive attack on Playa Giron, 1961

Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, during a meeting at the fifteenth session of the General Assembly (UN), 1960

The Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (pictured left to right), 1959

Fidel Castro, 1964

CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President of Cuba Fidel Castro (right) during a meeting in the Kremlin, 1986

Fidel Castro makes an entry in the book of honorable guests of the Main Architectural and Planning Control Moscow, 1986

The meeting of Pope Francis and Fidel Castro in 2015

The Prime Minister Fidel Castro, Maya Plisetskaya (left) and the Bolshoi Theater, 1963

Patriarch Kirill and Fidel Castro during a meeting in the house of the leader of the Cuban Revolution in Havana, 2016

Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1974

Fidel Castro during the cutting of reed, 1961

Fidel to his brother Raul Castro, 2001

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Havana, 2014