Moscow Reaches for America’s Slim Waist

After Stalin came Khrushchev, and that meant quite a change. Then it was Brezhnev’s turn, and things looked different again. When Brezhnev’s time runs out, more changes can be expected; but there is something which has never changed, and never will: the Soviet Union’s determination to rule the world. A Marxist-Leninist world, of course.

The Kremlin got off to a good start in the Western Hemisphere with Fidel Castro’s Cuba, from which movimienlos de liberación were nurtured and launched throughout Latin America. The young idealists who formed the cadres of these movimientos considered the Soviet Unión too bourgeois a model, but they went wild with enthusiasm for Castro, obviously not realizing that he was totally dependent on his Russian masters and that nothing of any importance could occur in Cuba without the Kremlin’s approval.

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Robert Peter

After Stalin came Khrushchev, and that meant quite a change. Then it was Brezhnev’s turn, and things looked different again. When Brezhnev’s time runs out, more changes can be expected; but there is something which has never changed, and never will: the Soviet Union’s determination to rule the world. A Marxist-Leninist world, of course.

The Kremlin got off to a good start in the Western Hemisphere with Fidel Castro’s Cuba, from which movimienlos de liberación were nurtured and launched throughout Latin America. The young idealists who formed the cadres of these movimientos considered the Soviet Unión too bourgeois a model, but they went wild with enthusiasm for Castro, obviously not realizing that he was totally dependent on his Russian masters and that nothing of any importance could occur in Cuba without the Kremlin’s approval.