Che wasn’t afraid of being brutal. As per an article by The Independent Institute, Che was drawn to extreme violence. For him, justice was best served through severe punishment. In his “Message to the Tricontinental,” he didn’t mince words while describing violence: “hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine.”

What’s more, Che was racist and wrote about his perspective in his diary. According to the Huffington Post, he called Blacks “those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing” and said Mexicans were “a band of illiterate Indians.” Wait, there’s more: the leader was homophobic and also helped set up Cuba’s first concentration camp back in 1960. Throughout his career as a revolutionary, he is believed to have adopted a bloodthirsty approach by weeding out those he deemed unfit in his quest to mould his idea of a nation.