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This story was first published for paid subscribers on June 4, 2022.

A CONVERTED U.S. NAVY TRAINING VESSEL, Granma is on display at the Museum of the Revolution in Havana. (Photo courtesy of Zoek naar Vgenecr)

For reasons perhaps cultural, perhaps political, this story was untold in the English-speaking world until about five years ago when I wrote an ear…