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Does anyone know where Che said this? Would like to read more.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2016/04/che-guevara-i-came-to-communism-because.html?m=1
The writer here attributes it to a letter he sent from Guatemala.
No, wait, WTF. Che literally called him Daddy Stalin? Is this real?
When I saw that I did do a double-take out of the absurdity of such a turn of phrase. I haven't read enough of Guevera's writings to get a gut feeling for whether or not such a choice of words would be in line with his general style of writing like I am with Stalin, so I have both no clue and no general idea of its validity unless someone's willing to hunt down a photocopy of that letter it's said to be sourced from.
I checked a reader I have of Che's, but that letter is not included.
However, looking at the article again that quotation isn't from the letter to his aunt and there is no source cited for that quotation:
I want it to be true.
And I have Anderson's Che but without a page citation, it's difficult to find the letter.
If I had Cuban revolutionary scholar connections that'd allow me to ask random silly questions, I'd want to ask them about the validity of this because it'd be such a silly little footnote in history