Book Claims Serb Ancestry of Cuba’s Castro

“An inspiration for me to write this book was the character of our relative Fidel Castro who managed to survive 638 attempts on his life and remains one of the few true intellectuals in the world,” author Dragoslava Koprivica writes in her new book“Immortal Castro and his Serbian kin.”  

Her book is made up of a series of essays. The first part comprises texts that speak of the history of Serbs from author's perspective. Chapters such as “What if Columbus landed in China?” are followed by Castro’s own writings on various topics with Koprivica's views and comments.

During the launch in Belgrade’s Vozdovac hall, scholars of the “Renewed Serbian Autochthonic History School“ spoke in support of the theories in Koprivica's book.

Academician Dragoljub Antic said Serbs governed the lands from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean as far back as 5508 B.C.
They lived on the Helm peninsula, which, Antic says, was the historic name for the Balkans. Their influence, in his opinion, was reduced by invading tribes which later became Europe’s leading nations, colonized the world and re-wrote history.

Antic argues that languages such as English and French were not around before the Middle Ages, placing the first occurrence of the English language in the late 16th century.

He believes that only the Celts are the true offspring of the ancient Serbs and Europe will only thrive when it recognises its Celtic heritage.

“Fidel Castro's doings are in cohesion with ancient Serbian maps of mind,“ he said, adding that the Cuban leader stood in defence of natural justice against the teachings of history schools of Berlin and Vienna.

Dejan Lucic, author of books like Shadow Rulers and the Secrets of Thieves, said Castro was linked to Serbia because he once said that his father, Angel, was of Celtic origin.

Lucic said there were many linguistic resemblances between name places and inscriptions around the world and the modern Serbian language.

One such example comes from ancient Egypt whose Hatiti rulers were a Serbian tribe, Lucic said. The ancient advisors of the Pharaohs were called the “Ushapti”, which comes from the Serbian word usaptivaci.

He also said the Serbian language shared many resemblances with Celtic, Sanskrit and ancient Persian, proving, in his words, that there was ancient Serbian presence in various parts of Eurasia.