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Castro was dictator of Cuba, which was the closest Soviet-bloc nation to the United States. Because of his country's location, the Soviets stationed a small motorized rifle division called the Soviet Brigade in Cuba (a brigade was not a common formation in the Soviet Army; what the US calls brigades the Soviets called regiments) in Cuba and put a lot of money into Cuba to help disguise the fact that Cuba's economy was terrible.

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