View: Cuban
Date: August, 1962
Before I had been ruling Cuba, our little island was unknown to the rest of the world. However though, through my leadership my various accomplishments throughout the Cold War, we have achieved world renown, and we are now regarded as the second largest armed force in Latin America. During the Cold War, my skillful move of allying with the soviets was a natural choice because of our similar hate of the United States, and our common belief in communism. Soon enough, we were a privileged client-state of the Soviet Union. This relationship with the soviets and my new administration and new ideologies are what drove us to the end, and ultimately, our victory. Such skillful political maneuvering on my part was the reason how Cuba, with the Soviet Union’s help, was in the end, a victor of the Cold War.
-Fidel Castro
Position: Dictator of Cuba
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