Heroes of the People!
I should talk about the expression ‘the triumph of the revolution’. I didn’t hear any Cuban use this expression when speaking in English but Alex said so many of his conversations resulted in time being denoted by ‘before the triumph of the revolution’ and ‘after the triumph of the revolution’, like triumph-of-the-revolution is one word.
It reminded me of when I was in Hanoi and the tour guide at Halong Bay denoted all events as being before or after ‘we defeated the American imperialists’. I have to think about why, but both expressions make me smile.