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What does exactly "the American version of its history with Cuba leading up to the Cuban Revolution" mean and what does "its history" refer to?

The comic employed the irreverent and iconoclastic style of Situationist detournement; in this instance, the icon being detourned was the American version of its history with Cuba leading up to the Cuban Revolution.

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What does exactly "the American version of its history with Cuba leading up to the Cuban Revolution" mean and what does "its history" refer to?

The comic employed the irreverent and iconoclastic style of Situationist detournement; in this instance, the icon being detourned was the American version of its history with Cuba leading up to the Cuban Revolution.

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"detournement" is not a word I have heard of before and is not in the English dictionary.  Here is the French original http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-american/detournement?showCookiePolicy=true

"its history" is the history of relations between USA and Cuba, in this case, the history until the Cuban Revolution (in the 50s, under Castro).