Communist Cuba

State · 1960–2026 CE · at its largest around 1960 CE

Cuba under the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, which became a one-party Communist state allied with the Soviet Union. It survived the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Raúl Castro succeeded his brother in 2008.

On its lands while it lasted

• Fidel Castro (1926 CE – 2016 CE): Cuban revolutionary who led the overthrow of Batista and ruled Cuba as a one-party communist state from 1959 to 2008.
• Che Guevara (1928 CE – 1967 CE): Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and a leader of the Cuban Revolution; captured and executed in Bolivia in 1967.
• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962 CE): Thirteen-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, the closest the Cold War came to nuclear war.

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