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Fidel Castro, 1959.

Castro, Fidel

1926- 2016

Cuba's National Capitol Building, January 2010.

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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

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Executive Committee of the National Security Committee during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Kudryavtsev, Sergey Mikhailovich

1915- 1998

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Alekseyev, Alexander Ivanovich

1913- 1989

Nikita Khrushchev at the UNGA, 1962.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich

1894- 1971

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Soviet Union. Embassy (Cuba)

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Anastas Mikoyan in 1959

Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich

1895- 1978

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Fireworks over the closing ceremonies of the Seoul Olympics, 1988

1988 Seoul Olympic Games

Horn of Africa Crisis

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December 1961	Memorandum Regarding the Plan of Insurrection for the First Period of 1962 Intervention of Fidel Castro concerning the plan of insurrection of the Revolutionary Armed Forces for the first period of 1962.
December 1, 1962	Order Number 1 of the Commander of the Recolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Order number 1 of the Commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in 1962. This document is about combat, preparedness, and organization within the various units of the Armed Forces.
November 4, 1962	Meeting of the Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba with Mikoyan in the Presidential Palace Minutes of the meeting between Anastas Mikoyan, Fidel Castro, and other members of the Secretariat of the ORI in the Old Presidential Palace. The purpose of this meeting is to resolve differences between the Cuban and Soviet governments in order to protect Marxist principles. Among other things, they discuss economic sanctions against Cuba, military intervention by other Latin American countries, the importance of the Cuban revolution to Marxism, and Cuba's relationship with the United States.
October 29, 1962	Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Foreign Ministry AA Gromyko and Carlos Olivares Sanchez Conversation between Gromyko and Sanchez where Sanchez asks the Soviet opinion on a number of issues, including the US blockade of Cuba and Castro’s recent speech.
November 4, 1965	Cable from Fernández Padilla to Che Guevara Cable from Fernández Padilla, head of the Cuban intelligence station in Dar-es-Salaam, to Che Guevara, who was in the Congo, regarding the contents of a letter from Castro to Che.
January 26, 1975	Letter from Neto to Cuban leadership, Dar-es-Salaam Letter from Neto to Cuban leadership requesting help in setting up schools and providing military training, weapons and expertise
January 29, 1976	Letter, Jorge Risquet to Fidel Castro, Luanda Risquet to Fidel Castro, Luanda on his meeting with Neto regarding weapons delivered by the Soviet Union to Angola to help arm Cubans coming to fight for Angola
April 3, 1977	Fidel Castro's 1977 Southern Africa Tour: A Report to Honecker (excerpt) The following excerpt--from a discussion on 3 April 1977 at the House of the SED Central Committee in East Berlin--contains Castro's impressions of the situations in several southern African countries, (e.g., Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, People's Republic of the Congo), and several guerrilla or liberation groups in the region, such as the African National Congress (ANC), then struggling for power in South Africa, and two groups fighting to rule Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Political Union (ZAPU). Also included are Castro's assessments of individual political leaders, remarks about coordination with Moscow, and an over-all conclusion that Africa was the place to inflict a major blow against world imperialism.
October 31, 1962	Cable from Soviet Ambassador to Cuba Alekseev to USSR Foreign Ministry Alekseev relays Castro’s responses to a letter from Khrushchev.
March 11, 1976	Minutes of the Meeting between Todor Zhivkov and Fidel Castro in Sofia Conversation for the record between Zhivkov and Castro during a four-day-long state visit of the Cuban leader to Bulgaria. Among the main issues discussed was the state of economic development in both countries, their relations with Albania, China, Romania and Yugoslavia; the Cuban foreign policy in Africa and the Caribbean; the civil war in Angola; the battle for the Third World.