Order of the White Lion - Recipients of the Order of the White Lion, George H. W. Bush, Yasser Arafat, Chiang Kai-Shek, Fidel Castro (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 205. Chapters: Recipients of the Order of the White Lion, George H. W. Bush, Yasser Arafat, Chiang Kai-shek, Fidel Castro, Leonid Brezhnev, George S. Patton, Alexander Dub ek, Olof Palme, Georgy Zhukov, Willy Brandt, Albert I of Belgium, Madeleine Albright, Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Dra a Mihailovi, Walter Bedell Smith, John J. Pershing, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Simon Wiesenthal, Javier Solana, Akihito, Zog of Albania, Alexander Galloway, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Mark W. Clark, Josef Bryks, Edvard Bene, John Shalikashvili, James Robb, Bruno Kreisky, Franti ek Pe ina, Franti ek Fajtl, W adys aw Grabski, Sergei Wojciechowski, Antanas Smetona, Adolf Opalka, Ivan Konev, W adys aw Anders, Ludvik Svoboda, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Dmitriy Ustinov, George Patton IV, Vladislav Van ura, Richard von Weizsacker, Hobart R. Gay, Josef kvorecky, George Joulwan, Joachim Meisner, Arpad Goncz, Bernardin Gantin, Marie Pierre K nig, Robert M. McBride, Otakar Jaro, Robert John Fleming, Lloyd Samuel Breadner, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Alois Elia, Brian Edmund Baker, Igor Moiseyev, Marie Ljalkova, Rudolf Pernicky, Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet, Klaus Naumann, Libu e Monikova. Excerpt: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born 1926) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011. Politically a Marxist-Leninist, under his administration Cuba was converted into a one-party socialist state, with industry being nationalised under state ownership and socialist reforms implemented in all areas of society. Born the illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer, Castro became involved in leftist and ...