For this before Soviet time sent for the 101st kilometer, called a lady of easy virtue or ... handed a star of the hero. Was the heroine of today's broadcast Valentina Seregina our domestic Mata Hari, or is it still love? Can her son Sasha be illegitimate child Fidel Castro? Watch the release of the program Let them talk - the Russian family of Fidel Castro 03.10.2017

Back in 1964, in one of the maternity hospitals in Moscow, Soviet woman Valentina Seryogina was born a swarthy boy who did not at all look like her Russian husband. For years Valentina kept her secret from everyone, went to the monastery and hid from journalists. Once again, Seregina tried not to leave the house. She avoided talking about her child and a possible connection with the Cuban leader. So who is real father her son Alexander? Is it really Fidel Castro?

Let them talk - The Russian family of Fidel Castro

Alexander Seregin is the first to enter the studio of the Let They Speak program (the broadcast of “The Russian Family of Fidel Castro”). The man is very similar to the legendary Cuban leader.

- The story that connects our family and Fidel Castro has been developing for a very long time. I remember when we were in Voronezh in 1972 and then I first saw a big bearded man. All my life, the Russian birch has been adjacent to the palm tree. I love both Russians and Cubans equally.

— I was born on January 14, 1964. Castro flew to the USSR in the spring of 1963. At this time, later it turned out later that my mother worked as an assistant cook in the institution where Fidel visited. My mother told me that she saw a crowd of people surround Castro and my mother managed to get through to him and asked him if he was afraid of America. To which Fidel told her that now he is only afraid of those beautiful blue eyes.

- He lived in Cuba with his mother, finished school there. How did we end up in Cuba? My father Vladimir Matveyevich was invited there as a specialist, he was a good geologist, but he practically did not live with us, since he was sent to another island.

“It is very important for me to help the Cuban people!”

Russian family of Fidel Castro: details in Let them talk

- I can't be sure that Sasha is his son. It's just that Sasha has never been like us.

After the departure of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro to another world, his popularity only grew. Journalists are happy to recall stories about him and talk about the turbulent personal life of the leader of the Island of Freedom. V different countries from time to time new illegitimate children of the Comandante are announced. And, perhaps, in Russia, Castro also had native blood! Muscovite, collector of antiquities Alexander Seregin is going to prove that he is the illegitimate son of Castro.

From Algeria to Cuba

My life unfolded atypically for a Soviet child. Born in 1964. At the age of seven, my parents took me to Algeria - the head of our family, Vladimir Seregin (a relative of the famous pilot Seregin), was sent there to work as a Soviet specialist. He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Geology at Moscow State University, was familiar with Landau. According to the official version, he worked as a geologist. And so he did other things - secret ...

In Algeria I went to school. There, my mother gave birth to a younger brother, Matvey.

My brother is the complete opposite of me in appearance. Blond, light-eyed. Parents are also fair-haired, light-eyed - typical Slavs. I have dark eyes and curly black hair.

We lived in Algeria for three years. And then we were urgently transferred to Cuba.

But if we went to Algeria with my father, then we were taken to the Island of Freedom only with my mother and brother. Later, the then Minister of Geology of Cuba (I remember his name was Garcia), who lived in the neighborhood, explained that it was Castro who ordered us to be transported. Said, "I need this family." We were hurriedly collected right in four hours.

Knowledgeable people said that it was Fidel who gave us a large house on the seashore in the suburbs of Havana - the town of Alamar. Villa was once taken away from some Hollywood actress. A concrete house under a tiled roof: with a glass door, spacious, seven rooms, overlooking the sea, on the first line - all my happy youth passed there.

I didn’t understand why we couldn’t live with dad Volodya (mother’s husband). He was settled on the island of Pinos - Molodezhny. My father was many kilometers away from us and came very rarely ...

We had a wonderful life with my mother. I quickly learned Spanish and easily communicated with the children of Cuban ministers and officials. He graduated from high school at the embassy in Havana.

Secret revealed

I found out about our family secret by accident, - Alexander continues. - It was a normal day. I, a 13-year-old teenager, was standing at a bus stop, a car stopped nearby. A man came out of it, came up to me and in Russian (although everyone spoke Spanish) said something like this: “Do you know who you are? Do you know who your father is?" I answered, they say, of course, - Vladimir Seregin. He says: "No, your father is Fidel Castro." He got into the car and left. I was shocked.

Now I think: why did someone need me to know the truth? Who was that stranger? A secret service agent?

When I came to my senses, I decided: yes, this cannot be! I rushed home and attacked my mother with questions. She blushed and ran into the kitchen. It was a very difficult moment. I felt uncomfortable - I never upset my mother.

A little later, she confirmed to me: yes, it “happened” with her and Castro, even when he came to the USSR ... Mother is still ashamed of this story. I know her in snatches.

Alexander Seregin collects antiques and likes to be photographed in clothes of the last century.

"I'm only afraid gray eyes»

According to Alexander, the story of his mother is as follows. In 1963, 19-year-old Valentina (nee Udolskaya) worked as a cook's assistant at the Zavidovo rest home. Peeled potatoes, was on the hook. In May 1963, Fidel Castro arrived in these places.

Comandante arrived on a visit to the USSR and, in particular, stayed at Zavidovo. He rested there for several days, - says Alexander. - According to my mother, Fidel was very handsome. He loved live communication with the people. He walked freely, looked into houses, talked to strangers, laughed out loud. He behaved at ease. Even came to the dance! It seems to have visited the Russian bath. Mom said that Castro lived and walked in "Zavidovo" on to the fullest. He easily fraternized with everyone: people hugged him with pleasure.

Once Valentina, when Castro was walking alone, came closer to examine her idol. She was beautiful in her youth, men paid attention to her. Castro smiled at her and asked her name. “Valya,” said the girl. Castro tried to repeat the name. And he introduced himself: "Alejandro." ( Full name Cuban leader - Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. - Ed.)

Mom asked: “Comrade Castro, aren’t you afraid that the Americans will kill you?” And he slyly replied through an interpreter: "Here I am afraid only of these gray eyes - nothing else." Most likely, it was his duty phrase, how many other girls did he say this to ... But this made an impression on my mother. She remembers how he just glared at her. And he asked me to show him the local places. Within half an hour, he concluded in a warm embrace. It was impossible to resist Castro. She admits that she immediately lost her head. They retired right in the thickets. Castro ran away from security. Perhaps the guards understood the situation.

He recalls that Fidel repeated the phrase in Russian: “He was drunk with happiness” ...

Mom in absentia, before they met, was in love with him. And here live ... She said that Castro was some kind of obsession, madness. She could not help herself, although she was brought up in severity. The authorities condescendingly looked at everything - they understood that Castro loves women, and they love him.

Mom was not married. But my future father or, more correctly, my stepfather, Muscovite Vladimir Seregin, looked after her. By the way, it was his uncle - the famous pilot Seregin - who helped his mother get a job at Zavidovo ...

Separation from Castro was hard for my mother. She soon realized that she was pregnant. For a Soviet girl to give birth without a husband is a shame. And she married Vladimir Seregin.

If you count by dates, in May 1963, my mother met with Castro. My husband and I registered in the summer. Got married pregnant. I was born on January 12, 1964. Everything fits in the timing. By the way, in January 1964, the Comandante came to the USSR again, but whether my mother saw him on the second visit, I don’t know: she shirks conversations, does not want to stir up the past ...

Parents began to quarrel

Mom hid a short romance with Castro, ”recalls Alexander. - Although I always publicly admired him as a person. Collected photographs of Castro. She showed them to me, told me about his biography. She said that she respected him as a hero. In general, we had a sort of personality cult of Fidel at home. Only later did I realize that everything had a double meaning.

Most likely, my mother hoped that her personal story would remain a secret ... But because of that incident at the bus stop, the story with Castro turned into a family tragedy. The situation escalated. When dad Volodya came, each meeting ended in a quarrel and a showdown. And I understood: this is because of Castro.

Mom decided to get a divorce. But for a Soviet person, a divorce was undesirable: it was possible to fly from the party. So officially they broke off relations not in Cuba, but already in the USSR.

Papa Volodya later came to us, but very rarely. I saw what he was going through, and did not go to him with uncomfortable questions.

- Did your mother confess to you who your real father is?

Yes. Even though she didn't want me to know. I literally pulled a confession out of her...

Meeting with the Comandante

- Have you had a chance to personally see Fidel?

Yes, he came twice to our house in Cuba. His first visit was completely unexpected. The door to our house was not locked. Near the villa there was a front garden without a fence. Mom and I heard some noise in the front garden. We look - Fidel is walking with a wide step and is already entering the house. To see Castro in front of you was a shock. I don't know how I didn't faint then.

And Fidel - like from the picture. In his green jacket, smiling, shining ... I was about 14 years old then. I was terribly embarrassed. He lowered his head, rested his eyes on the floor and stood, afraid to move. He kissed his mother noisily. They embraced. Fidel cheerfully asked her: "Como estas?" (in Spanish - "how are you?"). Looked into her eyes. He touched his cheek, his nose. He behaved absolutely directly. Without taking off his boots, he went into the house, plopped down on the sofa and felt completely relaxed.

Mom gave him coffee. He smoked a cigar - just a smoke yoke. There was a feeling that Castro was here as the owner, as if he had always been in this house.

I didn't utter a single word during the entire meeting. He tried to talk to me, asked me something. Mom tried to stir me up, but I was completely squeezed.

Mom's Beach

By the way, Fidel traveled in a regular open-top Willys car. There is one guard in the car, the driver and him. And every ten meters they stopped, because the people, seeing the commandant, ran to hug him. Such popular love...

Then, just as suddenly, he came to us for the second time - to visit us. I slept in my room. A noise woke me up. I remember my younger brother Matvey running and shouting: “Fidel is coming to us! Hurry!" Everyone got excited.

The younger brother was much braver than me. He happily ran up to Castro, who picked him up in his arms - he loved children. His brother called him Fidel. He laughed in response.

He addressed me: "Alejandro". My mother gave me his name when I was born. She admits that she named after Castro. To my shame, I was embarrassed even at this meeting. Now I scold myself - I should have made friends. But even then I had information in my head that he could be my father. This scared me...

Mom complained to Fidel that she hurt her leg. We have a sea near our house, and corals prevented us from entering the water. Fidel exclaimed: "I will make the beach good - both for you and for the people." And really made a beautiful beach. He came himself, controlled how the bulldozers work there ...

- How did he communicate with your mother?

It was clear that they were close to each other. Of course, I saw and heard them chattering fast in Spanish. But he didn't overhear.

Mom gave him a special cup. We still have it in our possession. He was very fond of strong coffee, he drank and smoked a lot of it.

Didn't touch food.

I never saw Castro again. I don’t know, maybe my mother met him when I was at school.

The cup from which the Cuban leader drank is kept in the Seregins' family as a relic.

- What was your mother's job in Cuba?

She did not work - she traded. I went to the embassy shop, took rum, meat, food, jeans - everything that was in short supply, and resold it. She had her clients. They had everything on the cards. We lived on the money we made. Under Cuban law, this is prohibited, but the police did not touch her.

- You were not tempted to ask Castro about kinship?

I was generally afraid to touch this topic. And in the future, for a very long time, I did not dare to find out all this ...

Decades of silence

We lived in Cuba for seven years. According to the laws of the Soviet era, when I turned 18, I had to join the army. I came to Russia alone - my mother and younger brother stayed on the island. Lived with my grandmother. Entered the institute at the Faculty of History. And he went to the army.

A few years later, my mother and brother returned from Cuba.

- In Russia, did you tell anyone that you could be Castro's son?

Almost no one, after all, it's a delicate matter. And more because of my mother. To this day, she tells me: let it all remain a secret. Mom is an Orthodox person, a deep believer, so she left the other day for a monastery in Diveevo. So these moments of her past she is going through hard. In the documents, Vladimir Seregin (he is no longer alive) is listed as my father. I bear his last name. But I think, of course, he knew everything.

- And how does your mother now evaluate her past romance with the Cuban leader?

She mourned his departure. He says that there are ten people in Russia who, so to speak, are related to Fidel. He didn't miss the pretty girls...

FINALLY

“I am looking for relatives for a DNA test”

I have a Russian wife, three children, - Alexander continues. - I'm a collector of antiquities. I sell-buy. This is both a hobby and a job. Only close friends know my story.

- And what evidence do you have that you are the son of Fidel?

In general, none. Only the words of my mother. But I want to get to the truth. It would be nice to find relatives along the Fidel line and undergo a DNA examination.

Why did you agree to tell your story right now?

About Castro in Lately They say a lot, and some kind of pride took me: but the life of my family is, one might say, part of history. I persuade my mother to tell or write the details, but she refuses.

- Maybe you will decide to claim Fidel's inheritance?

No, it's just interesting to solve a family secret.

10.03.2017

Could Fidel Castro have a Russian son? - This question is still open. There is no serious evidence for this. Or not yet. But the fact remains - the Moscow Cigar Club was visited by Alexander Seregin, who calls himself the Russian son of the former leader of Cuba, who has left.
Alexander Seregin was a little late, and the men congratulated the girls on the upcoming Women's Day, Vladislav Ryabikov distinguished himself, who pleased him with a sparkling and sweet "snack".
When all the congratulatory words were said, Alexander Seregin himself appeared: a short, dark-haired man with brown eyes, with a Fidel Castro-like beard and a resonant voice. He greeted the participants of the meeting, as befits the son of a commandant, at Spanish. And then he told his story that he is the illegitimate son of Castro, and is going to prove it.
A. Seregin began his story with facts: he was born in 1964, and Fidel Castro, as you know, visited the USSR in 1963. And he also has a younger brother - a complete opposite in appearance - blond, light-eyed, his parents are also fair-haired, light-eyed.
At the age of seven, his parents took Alexander to Algeria - they sent the head of the family, Vladimir Seregin (a relative of the famous pilot Seregin), to work there. In Algiers, Alexander went to school. The younger brother was also born there. The family lived in North Africa for about three years, and then she was urgently transferred to Cuba. But only Alexander, brother Matvey and their mother were taken to the Island of Freedom. According to Alexander, later he learned that this move was ordered by Castro, and it was Castro who gave them a large house on the seashore in the suburbs of Havana. Meanwhile, Alexander's father, Vladimir Seregin, lived in another part of Cuba - on the island of Youth. high school Alexander graduated in Havana.
O family secret A. Seregin found out at the age of 13, although there were guesses before. Some stranger on the street told him about it. After that, Alexander asked his mother about his father. And she confirmed the information that Alexander's father is not Vladimir Seregin, but Fidel Castro. As Alexander said, the story of his mother is as follows. In 1963, she worked as an assistant cook at the Zavidovo rest home, where Fidel Castro arrived for a few days in May 1963 during his visit to the USSR. Then everything happened to them.
With Alina Fernandez, the daughter of Fidel Castro, and his son Fidelito (Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart), Alexander Seregin does not communicate and never did. And his Russian son saw Fidel himself only once, when he came to their house in Cuba. V currently Alexander Seregin is trying to establish his relationship with Fidel Castro through DNA testing, but so far this has not been possible.
The meeting participants began to go about their business even before the end of the evening, having lost interest in the guest. One of the colleagues expressed his attitude to the "Russian son" in the following way:
"I would very much like Fidel to have a Russian son. I would very much not like it to be Alexander Seregin."

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Photo by Ulyana Selezneva

He is a luxurious brunette, fluent in Spanish, loving the strongest black coffee, Havana cigars and Cuban rum.

And he has a luxurious family secret.

He came with her to the editorial office minute by minute, as agreed, due to Moscow traffic jams, this cannot but delight, for accuracy is the courtesy of kings. He is almost a king, only this requires proof.

53-year-old Muscovite Alejandro Seregin was born in the winter of 1964, exactly nine months after the first visit to the Soviet Union of one of the most legendary personalities of the twentieth century, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruza, Fidel Castro ...

Is it by chance?..

Photo from personal archive.

“Here is a photograph of Fidel, which he gave to my mother in the same 63rd,” Alejandro holds out a small black and white photograph. On the reverse side half-decayed inscription in Spanish: "Recurdo me" ("Remember me"). “I no decirle a nadie” - either “don't tell anyone”, or “I won't tell anyone”, a computer translator gives different interpretations.

Alejandro Seregin is convinced that he is the illegitimate son of a famous Cuban revolutionary. The lie detector, to which he was sent by idle television men, showed that the man was telling the truth.

Next in line is DNA analysis, which should finally dot the i's. But it turned out that this is the most difficult.

“Fidel passed away six months ago, but none of his recognized relatives, although they already know about me, do not want to take a blood test to prove or disprove our relationship. In Cuba for a long time generally prohibited any genetic research. But I will still achieve my goal, not for the sake of fame or money, I just want to finally find out everything, ”Alejandro Seregin is convinced.

Alejandro is one of the names of Fidel Castro, his party pseudonym, he took it during the years of the revolutionary struggle for the independence of Cuba. Alejandro - this is how the 20-year-old cook Valya called her eldest son, who worked in the hunting grounds "Zavidovo", where the Soviet leadership took out to the open air all eminent foreigners who came to the Union.

Fidel Castro was already a living legend then. A hand-written handsome man, so unlike the old communists from the Politburo, he personified the youth of the world, its fulfilled hope.

It was truly a personality of a planetary scale, - Alejandro begins his story. - When Fidel first came to the USSR, everyone seemed to have gone crazy. In comparison, it is as if aliens have arrived on Earth today. Fidel was an independent person, he behaved very liberated, despite the security, ours and Cuban, he could easily go for a walk anywhere, do anything. He was not afraid of anything or anyone. He was a god. And around him, wherever he appeared, a jubilant crowd immediately formed. The girls hung themselves in clusters around his neck. When he came to hunt at Zavidovo, all the employees immediately abandoned their business and ran to look at the living commander. Among them was my mother. A spontaneous rally formed on the street, where he spoke, my mother managed to get closer, she had only one question for Castro: “Are you not afraid that America will kill you?” To which Fidel replied: “I am afraid of only one thing, these blue eyes ...” Yes, it was impossible not to fall in love with my mother at first sight, in her eyes - you see, there is a blue bottle cap with mineral water? So her eyes were exactly the same rare shade! And when she stood with her back to the sky, as if two gaps were visible on her face, and a piercing blue light poured from there.

- And how did your mother get into Zavidovo? Is it for beautiful eyes?

I think that this is not a secret - all employees of such structures worked in the KGB, had titles, and signed a non-disclosure agreement. But, of course, connections were also needed ... My mother was helped to get a job at Zavidovo by a relative of her future husband, a man whom I considered my father for a long time, this is his uncle - the famous pilot Vladimir Seregin, the same one who later died along with Gagarin.

- It turns out that your mother was not faithful to her fiancé?

You see, she was so young, and Castro, I think, was a very attractive man, he knew how to handle women and tell them what they were into. this moment want to hear. “I was drunk with happiness,” he learned this phrase in Russian and repeated to his mother endlessly. Could she resist?

- So, maybe this sudden passion arose on the instructions of the relevant authorities?

I don't think so at the time Soviet people, women, were a real "morality image" and gave themselves to men only for love. To be honest, it was a short novel. Mom lost her head, and when she woke up, Castro had already left, writing her a farewell note. "Remember me and don't tell anyone." But that was far from all that he left behind - after a while, my mother realized that she was expecting a baby ... That is, me. I was born in a legal marriage on January 15, 1964, my mother married Seregin, I am sure that this was a forced union that bound them, as they then thought, for the rest of their lives, because both worked for the authorities, and divorce in this environment is not encouraged. After some time, my mother left with her lawful husband on a long business trip to Algeria. In the same place, in 1975, my half-brother Matvey was born.

- And what, no one suspected the truth?

The Castro cult has existed in our family for as long as I can remember, my mother cut out all the newspaper articles about him, collected photographs. Naturally, my stepfather, I will call him that, I didn’t like it. They often sorted things out. So I would not call our family happy. Did Seregin think that I was not his own? And my mother, and stepfather, and younger brother are blue-eyed, fair-haired, of the Slavic type, but from childhood I grew up dark-haired and swarthy. I didn't look like anyone close to me. So he probably had reason to be suspicious. In any case, he treated me rather coldly.

- After a business trip to Algeria, your parents were unexpectedly sent to Cuba.

I think that Fidel himself had a hand in our departure to Cuba. He did everything so that his stepfather would not be close to his mother. As a geologist by profession, Seregin had to explore mineral deposits, look for gold in Cuba. Actually, for this he was sent to the Island of Freedom, but we went, rather, a makeweight. There was no need for my mother and I to stay abroad, since Seregin hardly lived with us anyway. From Havana, he was redirected to the Island of Youth, the former Treasure Island, where Caribbean pirates once hunted for robbery, under Castro, women of easy virtue who did not enjoy the trust of the authorities were resettled there, while my mother and brother and I remained in the capital. In the suburb of Alamar on the first line of the sea, we were given a huge la casa, “house” in Spanish, it was not just a house, but a real villa, before the revolution it belonged to some Hollywood star, and then was expropriated by the new government. The gardener looked after the garden, the maids cleaned the house. In short, we lived in grand style. Later I learned that it was Castro personally who ordered to allocate such a luxurious mansion to our family.

- Flowed, probably, days full of idleness and bliss ...

Yes, I disappeared on the coast, studying at the school at the embassy did not cause any tension, I really liked to hunt fish, and I didn’t need anything else. The fish swims, I swim... I was in love with the lovely Cuban girl Maria...

Cuba is an amazing country, nowhere else have I seen such a level of happy and serene people as here. Not life, but a real holiday. No one thinks about their daily bread, no one is afraid of tomorrow. It’s here in Russia that poplars grow all the time and stupid maples, and there everything that is from the earth, absolutely everything is edible, if you want to eat, you cut the breadfruit tree into pieces, fry it, and you get something similar to a mixture of potatoes with bread. Bananas, oranges, coconuts.... Despite the fact that the Cubans themselves had nothing for their soul, but this meant that they had nothing to lose. That's why they took their lives so lightly. Fidel sometimes felt sorry for the Americans in this regard, because they also strive to make everyone in the world happy according to their own standards, but nothing works ... Not once with Cuba, nor today with the Middle East. The consumer society is a dead end for human development, I'll tell you what.

In Cuba, every evening I was amazed at how the neighbors on our street, as soon as the sun hid behind the horizon, carried tables, food, everything they had into the yard, sparing nothing for each other, and it was possible to freely move from home to house, drink a glass of rum or a cup of coffee, smoke a cigar, dance... It was a daily holiday, it seemed that everyone was just relaxing and having fun.

- And in Cuba, did you find out who your real father is?

I was 13 years old and I will remember this day for the rest of my life. I was standing at the bus stop, suddenly a car with government numbers stopped near me, from which a stranger in an expensive suit got out. He came up to me and in pure Russian said: “Are you Alejandro?” - "Yes". “Do you know who your father is? This is Fidel,” then this man got back into the car and immediately left, and I was left confused in the middle of the street, not understanding what all this was ...

- What a strange confession. For what?

I do not know this. But it hit me right in the heart. I even skipped school, wandered along the seashore, then returned home and immediately from the threshold, unable to stand it, asked my mother if this was true. She was washing dishes at that moment ... With all her might, she threw it on the floor and uttered only one phrase: "Never ask me about it again." For a long time I didn't really raise the issue, I had enough of those broken plates. We talked to her only when I was already grown up. I practically pulled that confession out of her, and at least some details. The relationship between mom and stepfather, when he returned from his pirate island, escalated even more.

- They swore because of Fidel?

Yes, it started after one day Castro came to visit us at the villa. He came as a good friend of his mother, an old friend, she poured him coffee, as strong as they know how to brew only in Cuba ... I stood in a daze and could not utter a word. Fidel sat down on an armchair, smoked his cigar all over our room and exchanged a few words in Spanish with my mother. In my memory, he came to us several times when I was at home. Whether they met apart from that, I don't know.

- Do you think it could romantic relationship with Castro to continue in Cuba?

I don't know this either. I think they were just friends. But mother was really allowed a lot in Cuba, for which others could be attracted. She spoke to higher circles local society, among the party elite, never worked, but one of the first went into business. She resold jeans that she bought in a currency store for Soviet diplomats. Naturally, serious people came to us a couple of times, held preventive conversations with her. But she had a reinforced concrete roof, and everything was limited to this. And one of her friends was imprisoned for speculation. In fact, I feel very sorry for my stepfather, in his own way he was a good person and, probably, was also worthy of family happiness. But not with mom. Although formally their family survived until the end of the 90s, in their declining years they nevertheless parted. My stepfather has long been dead, but my mother has changed a lot, has become devout, often visits the monastery in Diveevo, where my brother now lives.

- How did she react to the fact that you revealed her secret?

She didn't want it.

- Then why?

Before explaining why, I must again return to the personality of Fidel, its planetary scale. Everything else, including my story, is a trifle compared to the life he lived. He was able to make a grandiose revolution and stay at the helm of the state for more than half a century, and what is most incredible - to die in his bed a natural death, unlike the same Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein. But they were also great people in their own way. So why did he succeed in what they did not succeed? The thing is that he did not want anything for himself, did not keep millions in Western banks, did not believe in the fairy tales of Western politicians, he did not amass anything, so there was nothing to blackmail him with and keep him on a short leash.

- But in the Soviet Union they believed that they could tame him?

Not true. It was simply beneficial for him to be friends with the communists. But he himself never supported Marxist ideas. When one day my mother asked Fidel directly why he was such a fierce communist, he told her that he would not have been a communist if the States had not put pressure on him. Yes, in Cuba there is no working class as such. What kind of proletariat can there be? Except perhaps the sugar cane pickers... But Fidel was right about one thing. You can't go the American way. It threatens the extinction of all mankind. Before it's too late, the planet must be saved. And only we Russians can do it.

- Do you still consider yourself Russian?

It seems to me that in my genes I am a supporter of big things, the world revolution - yes, that's for me. At one time, I wrote the book "Project - Russia", and it contains an absolutely clear technology of how to make Russia fulfill its main mission - to save the whole world. Only a Russian person is able to formulate a universal dream. And only a Cuban is able to believe in it. I have both. And this is not a utopia, as it might seem at first glance. Yes, even a utopia! After all, as Oscar Wilde once said: “You shouldn’t even look at a map if it doesn’t show a utopia.” Sooner or later, but we will come to a world where everyone will be happy. This is something that Fidel did not live up to. He was born too early. He knew where humanity needed to move, but due to his age he could not understand that it was necessary to unite the people of the future not by revolutions, but by the Internet.

- Which was banned in Cuba for a long time?

And it was a fatal mistake. Cuba - Island of freedom. The Internet is the world of freedom. Mankind's dream come true, where sooner or later we must go. There will be no officials, no bureaucrats, no administrative resources, no oligarchs, no power of world transnational corporations seeking to enslave all of humanity and promoting the completely destructive idea of ​​a global consumer society. This is what Castro saved Cuba from in his time, which we completely forgot about. That you can be poor, but happy... Cathedral social network Russia - that's what I called this path. Our duty and our sacred duty is to give the world a new global project. We don't have another planet. And in order to survive, we must unite.

I understood: you want to prove that you are the son of Fidel, not because of the inheritance, but in order to push your ideas to the broad masses? Indeed, it is one thing when some Alejandro Seregin talks about the unification of the world, and quite another - a direct descendant of Castro. It is more valuable than any money!

I first told my story publicly on the fortieth day of my alleged father's death. Then he agreed to take a lie detector test. This is a rather difficult procedure when you are completely strangers they pull out all the ins and outs ... But the study proved that I am sure that I am telling the truth. And that neither greed nor deliberate deceit drives me. But, of course, this is a subjective truth, my truth, and for its objective confirmation, you need to take a DNA test.

- What was the matter?

I am ready to provide my genetic material at any moment. But the Cuban side does not want this ... Of course, there are other illegitimate children of Castro, of whom there are a great many around the world, but who can prove that they are real, they didn’t pass this analysis either, Castro simply recognized some of them as his own in words. So in this case, no one gives any guarantees. Even with Raul, everything is not so simple, because he and Fidel are half-brothers, one was born from an official wife, the other from a servant, who, in turn, was also married to another, and it’s not a fact that Fidel and Raul are generally brothers. Everything is like in Latin American TV shows, mixed, confused ... I only know that my relatives are against it. And it seems that Castro's daughter Alina Fernandez, who has been living in Miami for a long time, wrote an angry petition about this ...

- Are you upset?

No. I think it's ok. In my time illegitimate son Stalin also did not want to recognize his legitimate descendants. Maybe it's just jealousy. Everything will come at the right time. After all, I am driven by a great goal. Sometimes I have dreams in Spanish, I'm back in Cuba, in our house on the seafront, Fidel is smoking his famous pipe, and I'm talking to him, this is something I never dared to do in my life. I promised him in my dreams that one day we would meet, someday, already as father and son, and I believe in it ...

This story seems incredible only at first glance, but if you start to unravel it from the end to the very beginning, it becomes clear that anything can happen in this world. And nothing surprising. Only in Russia alone, according to conservative estimates, Castro, who often visited the Soviet Union, could have about ten children born, in total, in the world of his alleged descendants, there are almost fifty people.

When one day an American journalist asked Castro how many children he had, he answered with a smile: a whole tribe. Why not? Good man there should be a lot.

FROM THE MK DOSSIER. Alexander (Alejandro) Seregin - historian-publicist, author of the series of books "Project - Russia", historian, public figure, the creator of the Museum of Forgotten Things on Mozhayskoye Highway, which collected the widest exposition on the history of pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the 90s.

In 2005, he was elected as a deputy of the rural settlement of Sosenki. He showed himself to be a fighter for a just cause, in fact, saved Sosenki near Moscow from complete destruction - they wanted to lay the Starokaluga extended highway through the village. Also, with his help, an Orthodox church was restored.

In 2010, he organized the Napoleon Treasure Search Center (TsPKN), where he was engaged in research and practical work to search for material values ​​taken out by Napoleon's army from Moscow.

Married, raising four children, lives in Barvikha.

The illegitimate son of a former Cuban leader Alexander Seregin-Castro is going to nominate his candidacy for the presidency of Russia from the Just Russia party.

Recall that recently the politician visited the Crimea. There he met with the most famous of its inhabitants and made a number of high-profile statements. He also did not bypass the hero city of Sevastopol, where he visited.

It is known that Seregin-Castro did not tell anyone about his origin for many years. But after the death of the Comandante, journalists revealed his secret. It is noted that Seregin was known until that moment. He often appeared on federal channels, as a historian or specialist in domestic politics. He is also called one of the authors or, at least, the coordinator of the sensational "Project Russia". Now Seregin-Castro is promoting the fifth book of this book series, which, according to many experts, influences the ideology of the country and internal politics Russia for the last decade.

Seregina-Castro can be seen next to the first persons of the state on the most various events or, for example, at solemn services in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Everyone is concerned about the question: will he manage to win the primaries of "Fair Russia" and will he become the only candidate from the party? This is one of the main intrigues of this political season.

Seregin-Castro has not yet published his election program, but he assures that its main point is that he will be able to ensure justice for everyone, and not for the elite, in a short time and bring not only Russia, but all of humanity to this main path . It can be assumed that here we are talking about a fundamentally new IT industry for the country and the world, which can change not only the digital economy, but the world order itself as a whole.

By the way, the prefix "alleged" son of Fidel Castro is almost never used in the federal media. Seregin has already managed to pass a huge number of checks (and some of them went live on the air of the federal TV channels of the first three!), It is known that only the fierce resistance of the closest official descendants and the family of the late leader of Cuba prevents the final genetic examination. However, the amazing resemblance to the Comandante and the examinations already carried out almost no doubt about the origin of another candidate for the presidency of Russia.

Recall that the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak also expressed a desire to run for president. Following her, a journalist and human rights activist announced the same decision, ex-wife famous TV presenter Alexander Gordon Ekaterina Gordon, then the television personality announced presidential ambitions Anfisa Chekhova and social activist Irina Volynets. Even the star Real boys» Marina Fedunkiv- and she did not stay away from the general flow of female representatives, in whom the craving for power woke up. However, almost all contenders for the presidency of the public cause, if not laughter, then bewilderment.

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