'I remember being excited when Castro made the revolution in Cuba': Video from 1986 surfaces showing presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders praising the late communist ruler

Senator Bernie Sanders was filmed giving a 1986 lecture in which he praised the Cuban revolution led by Communist ruler Fidel Castro.

‘I remember being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba,’ Sanders is seen telling students at the University of Vermont in 1986.

‘It seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against ugly rich people.’

Sanders was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, at the time the tape was recorded, which was posted to Twitter on Wednesday by a user called, The Reagan Battalion.

He told the students how he became so disillusioned by John F. Kennedy when he ran for president in the early 1960s that he wanted to ‘puke’ because of his hardline anti-communist stance.