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Credit: Reuters/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) By Jeff Franks HAVANA | Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:31am EDT HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba readied for a Communist Party congress about its future with a tribute to the past on Saturday, staging a military parade for the 50th anniversaries of the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion and the declaration of Cuban socialism. Troops marched through Havana and fighter jets roared across the sky to mark the two watershed events that will be followed by another later in the day when the ruling Communists begin a four-day congress. President Raul Castro says the future of Cuban socialism put in place after the island's 1959 revolution is at stake. The congress of Cuba's highest political body is expected to introduce possible new leaders and approve wide-ranging reforms to an economy Castro has said is on the brink of failure. The military parade was all pride and patriotism as hundreds of soldiers marched through Revolution Square where Castro, 79, and an array of dignitaries looked on. The troops were followed by hundreds of thousands of flag-waving civilians in the carefully orchestrated event. Former leader Fidel Castro, 84 and ailing, did not attend, but his name was invoked often by parade participants. As refurbished military vehicles with rocket launchers and mortars passed by and a small fleet of helicopters flew overhead, followed by five streaking Soviet MiGs, a parade announcer declared the materiel "modernized and ready to confront any imperialist aggression." It was Fidel Castro who, on April 16, 1961, fearing U.S. invasion was imminent, finally told Cubans what the 1959 revolution he led from the Sierra Maestra mountains was all about. "What the imperialists can't forgive us ... is that we have made a socialist revolution right under the nose of the United States," he proclaimed in speech paying tribute to victims of pre-invasion bombing raids the previous day. BOTCHED INVASION On April 17, a force of CIA-trained Cuban exiles, backed by U.S. ships and planes, came ashore at the Bay of Pigs 100 miles southeast of Havana in a bloody attempt to spark a counter-revolution. Castro rallied tens of thousands of troops and citizens to the battle and two days later declared victory as the attackers fled or were killed or captured in the botched invasion. The triumph by tiny Cuba versus the superpower 90 miles away won Castro favor at home and abroad and is portrayed by Cuban leaders as one of their greatest accomplishments. 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