History Will Absolve Me | Iwan Rheon | Figures of Speech

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  • čas přidán 28. 03. 2018
  • Iwan Rheon reads Fidel Castro's speech History Will Absolve Me.
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Komentáře • 105

  • @qamarkhan4531
    @qamarkhan4531 Před 3 lety +113

    The fact that the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to Cuban doctors this year is an injustice of the highest order.

    • @kandimallakotaiah4601
      @kandimallakotaiah4601 Před 2 lety +4

      True

    • @brianc5617
      @brianc5617 Před 8 měsíci

      I would agree, but that implies that the Nobel peace prize wasn't already a complete farce. Love or hate Obama, he was given a peace prize despite invading 7 counties and ordering an airstrike that killed another Nobel peace prize recipient. It would be unfair to put all of that at his feet since the US is a plutocracy ruled by the rich and Military Industrial Complex, but still, it is rather damning evidence that the Nobel peace prize is a farce.

  • @denisestottlemyer3150
    @denisestottlemyer3150 Před 9 měsíci +4

    It's unreal how magnetic Iwan Rheon is as a performer. It takes one breath away

  • @aweirdredguy3885
    @aweirdredguy3885 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Great speech by a great man,wonderfully voiced by a great actor

  • @Jenni_Beans89
    @Jenni_Beans89 Před 6 lety +26

    I know Iwan's voice is wonderful, but I couldn't stop looking at those beautiful eyes :)

  • @_Wakaz_
    @_Wakaz_ Před 2 lety +28

    Absolutely phenomenal, thank you so much for doing the absolutely wonderful revolutionary man that was Fidel Castro, justice. I can assuredly say that this further reminded me that history certainly did absolve him. Fantastic acting, and fantastic delivery. Great job man. Viva Fidel! Viva la revolucion! Hasta la victoria siempre!

  • @evannesbitt7852
    @evannesbitt7852 Před 5 lety +119

    And it has, comrade. Rest in peace, in power.

  • @juliesanderson1832
    @juliesanderson1832 Před 6 lety +22

    Brilliant job Iwan, I could listen to you all day.

  • @lrdr5404
    @lrdr5404 Před 6 lety +27

    Thanks, Almeida for these speeches. And well done to Iwan on this one in particular!

  • @weareallbornmad410
    @weareallbornmad410 Před 4 lety +66

    Wow. Clearly, I need to learn more about history and present of Cuban people.

    • @SpaghettiShaq
      @SpaghettiShaq Před 4 lety +10

      Yes

    • @thomaswest4033
      @thomaswest4033 Před 4 lety +5

      I'd love to help you learn. If you'd like.

    • @TheBendablespoons
      @TheBendablespoons Před 4 lety +8

      Start by reading the whole thing ;)
      www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

    • @thesmylexfrontG
      @thesmylexfrontG Před 3 lety +2

      From one monster to the next. This shouldn’t exist as a way to encourage you to a side but to acknowledge history. Batista was a monster. Castro was just a different breed.

    • @bg6513
      @bg6513 Před 3 lety +21

      @@thesmylexfrontG A "monster" that led a revolution which taught the Cuban people to read and to stand independently against the world's largest empire.

  • @jzaaaa4372
    @jzaaaa4372 Před 3 lety +9

    THAT IS PHENOMENAL!!! The writer, the actor ABSOLUTELY GENIUS. I got goosebumps throughout. I will never forget this .

    • @Velveteenvision
      @Velveteenvision Před 3 lety +12

      The writer is Fidel Castro 🙂

    • @kandimallakotaiah4601
      @kandimallakotaiah4601 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Velveteenvision can you help me to know about cheguevara?

    • @BizzleyBear
      @BizzleyBear Před rokem

      @@kandimallakotaiah4601 I ask people to do the same thing for me, and everyone has so many different things to say. He’s an icon and a hero to some, but to some more (Cubans *seem* to think this ->) he’s an anti-peace tyrant.
      When you do learn about him use scrutiny and discretion. But you probably know to do that by now. A lot of misinformation, you know..

    • @kandimallakotaiah4601
      @kandimallakotaiah4601 Před rokem

      @@BizzleyBear hello thanks for reply in this period I came to know a lot about him I don't care what others says about che .he is always an universal humanist to me (universal person,marx and che)

    • @Karrokick
      @Karrokick Před rokem

      @@BizzleyBear if you’re not cuban don’t speak on what Cubans think of their politicos. You don’t know.

  • @chapo3992
    @chapo3992 Před 3 lety +6

    Damn Iwan Rheon is talented.

  • @fraserhay1514
    @fraserhay1514 Před 4 lety +17

    God bless you Commandante

  • @mdfazlahossain6165
    @mdfazlahossain6165 Před 4 lety +12

    so powerful....

  • @JRCP144
    @JRCP144 Před 4 lety +5

    Fantastic speech but I am very distracted by how good that jumper is and where I might get one...

  • @MercenaryPlaysGames
    @MercenaryPlaysGames Před 5 lety +24

    Who knew Ramsay Bolton made a good public speaker...

  • @The80sWolf_
    @The80sWolf_ Před 3 lety +10

    Westerners will cope with this, and the gusanos

  • @indoorkites420
    @indoorkites420 Před 5 lety +76

    ☭ long live castro ☭

    • @thesmylexfrontG
      @thesmylexfrontG Před 3 lety +4

      Castro was a monster

    • @RedSyrup66
      @RedSyrup66 Před 3 lety +14

      @@thesmylexfrontG yeah he killed so many Koreans and Vietnamese and Cambodians and Laotians and backed the apartheid state of South Africa and funded the murderous, rapist, village-burning contras with the profits of illegally selling arms to ayatollah khomenei. He tortured so many people in Guantanamo bay and Abu grahib and toppled the democratically elected government in Guatemala and Chile and Iran and flooded Jamaica with guns and encouraged and aided mass murder in Indonesia and turned the most prosperous nation in Africa into a slave market. Absolute monster.

    • @rentedguccimink1948
      @rentedguccimink1948 Před 3 lety +2

      @@RedSyrup66 Nobody said the USA was blameless. Anyone romanticizing Castro is a damn fool period

    • @Petey0707
      @Petey0707 Před 2 lety +2

      @@thesmylexfrontG Castro is only a monster to fascists and gusano scum. Meanwhile, people like you gladly support a war-mongering genocidal regime like the USA, gotta love the irony.

    • @Petey0707
      @Petey0707 Před 2 lety +4

      @@rentedguccimink1948 Castro is romanticized because he deserves to be. Lay off the Red Scare propaganda, liberal.

  • @WhatCanSmith
    @WhatCanSmith Před 3 lety

    Life Path 3. Me and Fidel we're so alike

  • @emmae2520
    @emmae2520 Před 3 lety +1

    The way this is read reminds me of how people read Shakespeare monologues. Anyone else?

    • @clayflix9569
      @clayflix9569 Před 3 lety +1

      Well, this series of videos star Shakespearean-trained actors and actresses. Ian McKellen, Andrew Scott, Derek Jacobi, Fiona Shaw. I agree that it helps give weight and authority to have actors perform these speeches like classical monologues.

  • @ulture
    @ulture Před 3 lety +8

    based

  • @CubGrylls
    @CubGrylls Před 5 lety +4

    Reak?

  • @alejandromedina1019
    @alejandromedina1019 Před 7 hodinami

    y yo que pensaba que su personaje más malvado era el de Juego de Tronos

  • @hellscream46
    @hellscream46 Před 3 lety +7

    At the very end,
    "Come, Reek. I'll be needing a bath."

  • @mnk9073
    @mnk9073 Před 2 lety +3

    Oh Fidel, rest in power, you magnificent magnificent man. None have ever challenged empire as you have, none have come as close to break the façade of the "free world" as you did. Hasta la victoria siempre Commandante. Your mortal husk may have died but your ideas will live on for a thousand years. Wherever the people find themselves disenfranchised YOU ARE THERE, wherever the downthrodden find themselves ground down by the machinations of capitalism YOU ARE THERE, wherever men and women struggle for dignity, freedom and the most basic human rights YOU ARE THERE. Viva Cuba, viva Fidel, viva la revolucion!

  • @BlueTangerine-xx4vk
    @BlueTangerine-xx4vk Před 7 měsíci

    Ash...am I pronouncing it right ?

  • @octolia9860
    @octolia9860 Před rokem

    his lips are odd but cool video gangy

  • @hayleymariewhoawhoa1804
    @hayleymariewhoawhoa1804 Před 6 lety +7

    I hate Castro. But Iwan makes this speech very interesting.

    • @evannesbitt7852
      @evannesbitt7852 Před 5 lety +45

      hayley Marie whoa whoa gusano

    • @evannesbitt7852
      @evannesbitt7852 Před 5 lety +39

      hayley Marie whoa whoa you hate the character propaganda has spun for you

    • @kc7159
      @kc7159 Před 5 lety +6

      Evan Nesbitt there’s great ignorance in this one

    • @lankylanky1833
      @lankylanky1833 Před 5 lety +6

      Regardless of what he became, when he made this speech he was a hero.

    • @lrdr5404
      @lrdr5404 Před 5 lety +6

      @@lankylanky1833Yeah, he wasn't wrong about Batista.

  • @travisvallemusic
    @travisvallemusic Před 5 lety +2

    There is no "his truth." I hate it when people say this shit

  • @AltbinariesPPK
    @AltbinariesPPK Před 5 lety +7

    Castro was a horrible person but he does make a good speach

    • @evannesbitt7852
      @evannesbitt7852 Před 5 lety +86

      When he actually wasn't a horrible person, but you believe whatever Americans tell you about him

    • @SpaghettiShaq
      @SpaghettiShaq Před 5 lety +43

      horrible if you're a gusano fuckboi

    • @yonimc9991
      @yonimc9991 Před 5 lety +7

      He was a piece of shit dictator who didn’t die soon enough , is not American propaganda I am a Cuban myself I saw it with my own eyes like I said a piece of shit dictator who should of died 60 years later. Fancy speeches and starving people were his best talents

    • @polpot6
      @polpot6 Před 4 lety +11

      Yoni Mc
      Ok boomer

    • @scapegoht9537
      @scapegoht9537 Před 4 lety +24

      Actually, he was a great person and the people he killed deserved it, especially whatever dumb bastard gusano you were related to.

  • @Ikilledthebanks
    @Ikilledthebanks Před 4 lety +2

    So much emotion, so little substance

    • @TheBendablespoons
      @TheBendablespoons Před 4 lety +25

      The real speech is something like 50 pages. Among st the pages is a very real and practical manifesto for Cuban revolution. Probably wouldn't make for an entertaining youtube video tho

  • @ThePerezHilton
    @ThePerezHilton Před 6 lety +2

    Lame!!