Fabio Grobart

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with [[::Cuba|Cuba]]. (Discuss)

Fabio Grobart (Abraham (Yunger) Semjovitch,), was starting from about 1924 to well into the Castro regime, the principal communist agent in Cuba. He was a founding member of the (Stalinist) Cuban Communist Party. Generally considered the principal Stalinist Agent in Cubam and was said charged with the "black" (covert) section of the Cuban communist party.^[1] He was expelled from Cuba several times,^[2] but returned to Cuba early in 1959 said to be at the request of Raul Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara. He is believed to have advised Fidel Castro on the means and methods of achieving absolute and lifetime power. Grobart died 1994 ^[3]

↑ Alexander, Robert Jackson 2002 A History of Organized Labor in Cuba, Praeger Publishers ISBN-10 027597703X ISBN-13: 978-0275977030 on Page 109: "Louis (B.) Serrano Tamayo, a one time Communist trade union leader in Oriente Province, who after 1940 became and Auténtico and ultimately became a secretary general of the Tobacco Workers Federation, claimed that the change in name (to Partido Socialista Popular L.D) did not change the nature of the Cuban communist Party. He argued that the Popular Socialist Party existed for “electoral purposes: and that “anyone could join it,” while there continued to exist a clandestine Partido Comunista de Cuba, headed like the PSP by Blas Roca as secretary general, in which Fabio Grobart, a European who did not become a Cuban citizen, played a major role. It was the clandestine party that in fact determined the policies of the legal one."
↑ Garcia Montes, Jorge and Antonio Alonso Avila, 1970 Historia del Partido Comunista de Cuba Ediciones Universal, 1970, Miami p. 116 Free translation: XII Deportion of Fabio Grobart and Dora Vainstock. Fabio Grobart and Dora Vainstock had been arrested several times (towards the end of Machado rule) on charges of conspiracy against the constitutional order. For one reason or the other the Cuban courts had freed them. This situation went on until the government decided to expel them. On October first 1932 both were placed on the Holand American Line Steam vessel Leederman, which took them to Holand. Dora Vainstock was only out of Cuba for a few months. As soon as she arrived in Europe she went to Paris. In Paris she obtained a irregular Cuban passport which she obtained through the “cultivation” of sexual intimacy with the son of an important person in the Machado cabinet (other sources mention Ricardo Herrera, former secretary of state and then Minister, e.g. Ambassador of Cuba in Paris) She left for Cuba arriving in March of 1933 (before Machado fell). Fabio Grobart remained out of Cuba until after Machado was forced to leave Cuba.
↑ Times staff 1994 (accessed 3-19-08) Fabio Grobart, Veteran Cuban Communist, 89. New York Times October 24, 1994 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E0D8173FF937A15753C1A962958260 Fabio Grobart, a founder of Cuba's Communist Party, has died, state news organizations reported. He was 89 years old. The report from the state news agency A.I.N. did not say when he died or the cause of death, but it said he was buried on Saturday. Mr. Grobart, who emigrated from Poland to Cuba when he was 19, was a founding member of the Cuban Communist Party in 1925. At one time he owned a tailor shop in Havana. In the years after the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, Mr. Grobart served on the party's Central Committee and as a member of Parliament. In his later years he was considered the party's historian. In the 1960's he was listed as a director of the influential magazine Cuba Socialista and was considered a top planner in guiding Cuba's revolution ideologically.

[1] Alexander, Robert Jackson 2002 A History of Organized Labor in Cuba, Praeger Publishers ISBN-10 027597703X ISBN-13: 978-0275977030 on Page 109: "Louis (B.) Serrano Tamayo, a one time Communist trade union leader in Oriente Province, who after 1940 became and Auténtico and ultimately became a secretary general of the Tobacco Workers Federation, claimed that the change in name (to Partido Socialista Popular L.D) did not change the nature of the Cuban communist Party. He argued that the Popular Socialist Party existed for “electoral purposes: and that “anyone could join it,” while there continued to exist a clandestine Partido Comunista de Cuba, headed like the PSP by Blas Roca as secretary general, in which Fabio Grobart, a European who did not become a Cuban citizen, played a major role. It was the clandestine party that in fact determined the policies of the legal one."

[2] Garcia Montes, Jorge and Antonio Alonso Avila, 1970 Historia del Partido Comunista de Cuba Ediciones Universal, 1970, Miami p. 116 Free translation: XII Deportion of Fabio Grobart and Dora Vainstock. Fabio Grobart and Dora Vainstock had been arrested several times (towards the end of Machado rule) on charges of conspiracy against the constitutional order. For one reason or the other the Cuban courts had freed them. This situation went on until the government decided to expel them. On October first 1932 both were placed on the Holand American Line Steam vessel Leederman, which took them to Holand. Dora Vainstock was only out of Cuba for a few months. As soon as she arrived in Europe she went to Paris. In Paris she obtained a irregular Cuban passport which she obtained through the “cultivation” of sexual intimacy with the son of an important person in the Machado cabinet (other sources mention Ricardo Herrera, former secretary of state and then Minister, e.g. Ambassador of Cuba in Paris) She left for Cuba arriving in March of 1933 (before Machado fell). Fabio Grobart remained out of Cuba until after Machado was forced to leave Cuba.

[3] Times staff 1994 (accessed 3-19-08) Fabio Grobart, Veteran Cuban Communist, 89. New York Times October 24, 1994 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E0D8173FF937A15753C1A962958260 Fabio Grobart, a founder of Cuba's Communist Party, has died, state news organizations reported. He was 89 years old. The report from the state news agency A.I.N. did not say when he died or the cause of death, but it said he was buried on Saturday. Mr. Grobart, who emigrated from Poland to Cuba when he was 19, was a founding member of the Cuban Communist Party in 1925. At one time he owned a tailor shop in Havana. In the years after the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, Mr. Grobart served on the party's Central Committee and as a member of Parliament. In his later years he was considered the party's historian. In the 1960's he was listed as a director of the influential magazine Cuba Socialista and was considered a top planner in guiding Cuba's revolution ideologically.

[1]

[2]

[3]

Fabio Grobart

Navigation menu

Search