Fideal Castro overthrew the government of Cuba in 1959. He died in 2016.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz - commonly known as Fidel Castro - ruled Cuba as a dictator- sorry, President- from 1959 until he retired in 2008. He had taken an active part in a revolution which overthrew the previous government led by Fulgencio Batista.
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== == Castro has been in power since 1959, when he overthrew Batista. He stepped down as Cuba's president in 2008.
Since 1959 Cuba has been a dictatorship.
Cuba, led by Fidel Castro, became pro-Communist in 1959 after the Cuban Revolution. Castro overthrew the Batista regime, leading to the establishment of a Communist government aligned with the Soviet Union.
Fidel Castro
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The Cuban Revolution overthrew the government of President Fulgencio Batista and instituted a socialist state. Cuba remains one of the few countries in the world with a communist government.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew the government of Russia.
Cuba didn't gain independence until the communist revolution in 1959. Between 1898 and 1959 it was a puppet state controlled by the US government. The US acquired Cuba after the Spanish-American war in 1898
They overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia.