@PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agoFidel Castro playing basketball with agricultural high school students in Havana, Cuba, 1970lemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down11
arrow-up193arrow-down1imageFidel Castro playing basketball with agricultural high school students in Havana, Cuba, 1970lemmy.world@PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-square@danekrae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish14•4 months agoHigh school students?! WTF were they feeding them?
minus-square@TwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•4 months agoRecalling yoel Romero. He was in a program in Cuba specifically due to his physical abilities. https://www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/61326982
minus-square@PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglish8•4 months agoAgricultural high school, and one presumes these are the star athletes of the school, so it’s the top strata of farmer’s boys who are getting an education to go on, themselves, to be farmers. And farming is pretty, uh, physical work.
minus-square@Unforeseen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoEspecially in those times in Cuba. They are only now in recent years getting mechanized in farming.
High school students?! WTF were they feeding them?
Recalling yoel Romero. He was in a program in Cuba specifically due to his physical abilities.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/61326982
Agricultural high school, and one presumes these are the star athletes of the school, so it’s the top strata of farmer’s boys who are getting an education to go on, themselves, to be farmers. And farming is pretty, uh, physical work.
Especially in those times in Cuba. They are only now in recent years getting mechanized in farming.