http://www.redpepper.org.uk/that-cuba-feeling/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/that-cuba-feeling/#comment-122281 steven walker Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:44:50 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=8747#comment-122281 I think the emphasis should be that the Soviet aim of installing nuclear weapons on Cuba was a direct response to the Americal installation of nuclear weapons in Italy and Turkey (not forgetting their forward air bases in the UK with nuclear-armed jets). My book: Fidel Castro’s Childhood -the untold story (http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=1789) also sheds light on Fidel’s formative experiences that formed his combative personality, enabled him to be a hugely successful guerilla leader and liberate Cuba from Yankee control.

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