The death of Cuban socialist icon Fidel Castro at age 90 on Friday stirred memories of his island nation´s close but at times fraught relations with the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR, on Saturday hailed Castro for having strengthened Cuba in the face of an American economic blockade, praising his former counterpart for having left a “deep mark in the history of mankind”.
But Gorbachev, 85, shied from invoking the cooling of relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union, telling Interfax news agency he would not discuss that period “on this day of mourning”.
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Source: The News International
