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Fidel Castro turns 90 - the last major communist figure in the West

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Video. Fidel Castro turns 90 - the last major communist figure in the West

Updated: 13/08/2016 - 0:43 GMT+2

As Fidel Castro marks his 90th birthday hi is still revered by many in Cuba, the country he remade, but failed to turn into a communist paradise.

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