What dictator claimed the following?

History will absolve me.

fidel castro in 1953

"That's it, Leppi. Castro finished an impassioned (and, of course, lengthy) speech in his own defense at his 1953 trial with that sentence. The speech ended with

I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

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