Russia’s establishment bids farewell to a thorn in America’s side

MOSCOW — Even after the Soviet Union was long dead and gone, many Russians still saw him as their man in Havana. In a bygone time, Fidel Castro was Moscow’s communist ally in America’s back yard, a persistent reminder that the Soviet Union had friends in the West, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. He was greeted by […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/11/26/russias-establishment-bids-farewell-to-a-thorn-in-americas-side/