Diaz-Canel hails the triumph of the October Revolution

HAVANA, Cuba, November 7 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, celebrated today the 108th anniversary of the triumph of the October Revolution.

"We communists and all of us who are part of the revolutionary movement, the nonconformists, those who fight every day for the best possible world that only socialism can create, celebrate the October Revolution with heartfelt respect. Long live the poor of the world!" the president said on X.

The Great October, as it is also known, was the first victory for the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Vladimir I. Lenin; it signified the first declared socialist revolution of the 20th century, with the participation of workers, peasants, and soldiers through the soviets.

Around midnight on November 7, according to the Gregorian calendar, Lenin arrived at the headquarters of the Petrograd Soviet, and from then on, the Committee's actions against Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government intensified.

By dawn, almost the entire city, with the exception of the Winter Palace, was under the control of the Petrograd Soviet, and Lenin was drafting the proclamation that deposed Kerensky, which was immediately circulated throughout the city.

A few days after the seizure of power in the capital, the surrounding region recognized the new government, and by mid-November, they had gained definitive control of Moscow.

By the beginning of 1918, the new government had the support of the army and control of most of the major cities and provincial capitals in the center of the country, and theoretical authority over most of the territory of the former empire.