Some returned home with lice and other diseases. Pregnancies resulting from the rampant promiscuity are no problem, however, since abortions are routine. This record haunts them for life, determining all education and professional opportunities. So Fidel, the child of the revolution, grew up without understanding Cuba's past and without the concepts of freedom and democracy. Unfortunately for communism, the human spirit naturally seeks freedom.
People are inquisitive.
Sometimes they even think and discern. When they do, in a flash they take the irreversible course toward liberation. Fidel and his peers recognized the evils of the other Fidel and his oppressive regime, but kept their feelings hidden in order to survive. Fidel got married and had three children. In 1994, at 34, he got drunk to escape reality.