Ireland Issues Postage Stamp Commemorating Brutal Communist Che Guevara

Via Billy

Ireland has issued a new postage stamp commemorating brutal Communist guerilla fighter Che Guevara.

The stamp depicts the famous image of Guevara against a red background with the years of his birth and death. The image of the stamp was made by Dublin artist Jim Fitzpatrick, and the Irish postal service released a statement glossing over atrocities for which Guevara was responsible.

“He assisted Fidel Castro in overturning the Cuban government in the late 1950s, and then held key political offices during Castro’s regime,” the statement reads, without mentioning his use of power to kill dissidents. “[Guevara] engaged in guerrilla action in Bolivia when he was arrested and subsequently executed by the Bolivian army on October 9, 1967. With his death and assisted by the popular Jim Fitzpatrick artwork, Guevara the Marxist revolutionary went on to become a cultural icon.”