re: #87 Dark_Falcon
Really, really. It’s not like the USSR gave them those SA-2s, T-55s, AKMs, and later BMP-1s and Mi-25s out of generosity. They did it because the Castros and their chief subordinates were communists and wanted to secure a base in the Western Hemisphere.
How many CIA led initiatives happened between 1953 and years afterwards, do you think, and how many dictators did the US support during those years?