PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoFidel Castro playing basketball with agricultural high school students in Havana, Cuba, 1970lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkFidel Castro playing basketball with agricultural high school students in Havana, Cuba, 1970lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squaredanekrae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoHigh school students?! WTF were they feeding them?
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 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-squareUnforeseen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoEspecially in those times in Cuba. They are only now in recent years getting mechanized in farming.
minus-squareTwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 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
High school students?! WTF were they feeding them?
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.
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