# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6U62anXt7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16448483-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/66af25eb90.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-02-15T17:47:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
The words of #FidelCastro, who was sworn in as leader of the Republic of Cuba on February 16, 1959.
The communist revolutionary was not simply the man for the hour - in office for 52 years and 101 days, ‘El Comandante’ remains the longest-serving, non-royal national ruler of the 20th century.
Deeply divisive but with an influence and legacy still shaping today’s world, have a look over gettyarchive for one of the few moments where Castro looked close to a fall.
📷: Havana, 1959 | Grey Villet/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images | #gettyarchive #lifemagazine

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