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Wide exterior of the Museum of the Revolution with students walking by2. Medium shot interior room with exhibits behind glass3. Close up of typewriter used by Fidel Castro 4. Close up Raul Castro's boots5. Tilt down...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDecember 17, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide exterior of the Museum of the Revolution with students walking by\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium shot interior room with exhibits behind glass\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of typewriter used by Fidel Castro \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up Raul Castro's boots\u003cbr/\u003e5. Tilt down bloody clothes encased in glass\u003cbr/\u003e6. Pull out yellowed newspaper clippings\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan right \"Granma\" boat behind glass\u003cbr/\u003e8. Zoom in to \"Granma\" name painted on vessel\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium shot Russian tank used by Fidel Castro during Bay of Pigs invasion\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up crumpled U-2 turbine\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: January 8, 1959\u003cbr/\u003e11. Pan right Malecon Avenue with thousands of people awaiting the arrival of Fidel's convoy\u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium shot Fidel Castro waving at crowd\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 17, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium shot man walking on Old Havana street\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sergio Cardenas, 70, retiree and witness to Fidel's arrival in Havana:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It was grandiose for Cuba. Imagine, the triumph of the revolution. There was a party all around here. Batista had fallen and the revolution had arrived. A new era and a new situation had arrived for the people of Cuba.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot Morro Castle complex where executions were ordered by Che Guevara\u003cbr/\u003eNovember 5, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium shot Hector Palacios and dissidents seated at table\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hector Palacios, Cuban dissident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Why do we have 250 political prisoners? Why aren't any of us recognised? This is an embargo, a real embargo, and that one must be lifted. You cannot hold talks with guns in your hands; you must hold talks unarmed.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 17, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot Malecon Avenue\u003cbr/\u003e19. Tilt down old and crumbling buildings on Malecon Avenue\u003cbr/\u003e20. Travelling shot on Malecon Avenue where rafters took to sea\u003cbr/\u003e21. Medium shot two men fishing using homemade rafts \u003cbr/\u003e22. Medium shot Hotel Nacional on Malecon Avenue\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: May 15, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide shot people marching in front of US Interests Section\u003cbr/\u003e24. Medium shot Fidel Castro marching and waving flag with crowd\u003cbr/\u003eDecember 17, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e25. Medium shot horse and carriage passing in front of store in Old Havana\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up sign of Fidel Castro in store window (Spanish) \"50th Anniversary of the Revolution\"\u003cbr/\u003eCuban schoolchildren, sporting the red neckerchiefs of the Communist Pioneers, visited the Museum of the Revolution in Havana - a shrine to the people and events that transformed Cuba into a communist state 50 years ago on New Year's Day.\u003cbr/\u003eThe boys and girls mingled with foreigners visiting the Cold War outpost on the verge of a new year full of uncertainty. \u003cbr/\u003eThe museum is in Fulgencio Batista's former presidential palace, which armed revolutionaries assaulted in a failed 1957 assassination attempt. \u003cbr/\u003eThe children are among 70 percent of Cuba's 11.2 million people born after the revolution, never knowing a government without Fidel or Raul Castro.\u003cbr/\u003eTheir eyes widened at antique guns and bloodstained clothes of revolutionary martyrs, but they weren't stirred by yellowed newspapers and typewriters.\u003cbr/\u003eMuseum pieces include the boots Raul Castro wore as a 27-year-old rebel commander with a ponytail, and the bronze plate of a Westinghouse steam turbine belonging to General Electric when it was nationalised in August 1960.\u003cbr/\u003eOutside, a glass structure encases the American yacht Granma, which arrived in eastern Cuba on December 2, 1956, carrying 82 men led by Fidel Castro to launch a rebel war.\u003cbr/\u003eThere's also the Soviet tank Castro rode in during the US-backed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the turbine of the American U-2 spy plane shot down in 1962 when the Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction.\u003cbr/\u003eThree blocks away, at the easternmost point of the capital's Malecon coastal highway, a crowd greeted a 32-year-old Fidel Castro when he and his bearded men reached Havana on January 8, 1959, one week after their revolutionary victory in eastern Cuba. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It was grandiose for Cuba. Imagine, the triumph of the revolution. There was a party all around here,\" said 70-year-old Sergio Cardenas.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Batista had fallen and the revolution had arrived. A new era and a new situation had arrived for the people of Cuba,\" added Cardenas, who was a 20-year-old student cheering in the crowd on Malecon Avenue the day Fidel Castro's convoy came into town.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite sanctions imposed by 10 American presidents in an effort to overthrow the island's leaders, Cuba's revolution has persevered long after the Iron Curtain collapsed and communist China and Vietnam embraced free markets while still maintaining their political systems. \u003cbr/\u003eOn the other side of Havana Bay looms the stone-and-mortar Spanish fortress where revolutionary Commander Ernesto \"Che\" directed executions of several hundred Batista police and army officials accused of torturing and killing opponents.\u003cbr/\u003eHector Palacios, a Cuban dissident whom had been jailed along with 74 others in the spring of 2003 and later released for health reasons, said the island's policy of isolationism would have to come to an end now that there was a man in the White House willing to hold talks with Cuban President Raul Castro.\u003cbr/\u003ePalacios said he was in Washington last October and testified before a commission on Capitol Hill about conditions in Cuba and how the US government could make better use of the 48 million US dollars currently spent every year on attempting to democratise the island's political system.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Why do we have 250 political prisoners? Why aren't any of us recognised? This is an embargo, a real embargo, and that one must be lifted. You cannot hold talks with guns in your hands; you must hold talks un-armed,\" said Palacios.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 219 political prisoners last counted by the independent Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation are housed in penitentiaries shared with common prisoners across the island. Fidel Castro acknowledged holding as many as 15,000 political prisoners in 1964.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter sending gays to work camps in the 1960s, communist Cuba now accepts homosexuality, but not political opposition.\u003cbr/\u003eThese days, gays gather openly at the Fiat dealership on the Malecon coastal highway - a witness to some of revolutionary Cuba's most dramatic moments.\u003cbr/\u003eThe highway was built in 1901 when American forces occupied Cuba after the Spanish-American War.\u003cbr/\u003eAcross the street are blocks of century-old, multi-storey apartment buildings with peeling paint and exposed bricks, some of which have been restored through a foreign-funded renovation project.\u003cbr/\u003eReminders of Cuba's revolution include Russian-made Lada sedans, new Chinese buses, 1950s Chevrolet and Ford sedans abandoned by people who went into exile nearly five decades ago but kept chugging along with Soviet tractor engines.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government provides free health care, education and a heavily subsidised food ration and other social services, but the average monthly state salary of 20 US dollars forces people to seek second jobs.\u003cbr/\u003eAn aging Fidel Castro marched six or seven blocks of the same route numerous times before he had intestinal surgery in August 2006 and ceded power to his younger brother Raul.\u003cbr/\u003eSeven months before falling ill, he looked determined, but walked stiffly, in a protest condemning Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuba-born militant accused of a jetliner bombing and other terrorist acts.\u003cbr/\u003eThe state of the ailing 82-year-old's health is a state secret. 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