If you look at the history of Cuba, starting early on from when Castro took over and made Cuba a communist dictatorship. For decades, Cuba was effectively a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Remember the whole Cuban Missile crisis under JFK and the Soviets provided them a financial lifeline. Look, if you're a communist, you destroy the economy. That happens all across the world. (33:18–33:24)
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Asserts that Cuba functioned as a Soviet satellite state for many years.
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