Fidel Castro
Che Guevara (left) and Fidel Castro (right)Fidel Castro had recently befriended the Soviet Union and Khrushchev. When Khrushchev proposed the idea of shipping missiles to Cuba, Castro accepted in order to protect his country from invasion by the Americans. Immediately after the missiles arrived, however, Castro lost total control over the missiles. All of the nuclear missiles were under Soviet control. Castro was simply being used as a pawn in the confrontation between the two superpowers. As the crisis escalated, Castro realized this. After the Cuban Missile Crisis was over and the Soviets left the island of Cuba, Castro felt abandoned by the Soviet Union. Although the Cubans had a guarantee of not being invaded by the Soviets, the relationship between the two countries fell apart over the many years to come.
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