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In the Second Half of the S, I Lived for Four and a Half Years in Cuba as a Foreign Specialist. There He Had Strong Ties With Latin American Militants of Various Leftist Currents, and Especially With Two Parties: the Chilean Mir and the Argentine Revolutionary Workers' Party ( Prt ). I Adhered to the Latter, Which Opened Before Me Access to True Treasures: the Great History of the Argentine Labor Movement, Its Experiences and Teachings. His Studies Prepared Me Well for My Future Militancy in Poland, in the Ranks of Solidarność. The Latin American Sectors to.

Which I Was Linked Were Not Pro-soviet but, in General, Very Critical of Moscow. But They Were Very Careful About Addressing the Issue, Because for Several Years Cuba Had Been Firmly Established in the Orbit of the Soviet Bloc. Geographically Located Outside the Real UK Mobile Database Reach of the Kremlin, It Essentially Maintained Its Political Independence From the Ussr , but Was Subjected to Harsh and Damaging, Although Inconsequential, Processes of Sovietization. In Those Days, in Cuba, Criticism of the Ussr Was in Fact Much More Effectively Stifled Than in Poland. Even the Most Critical, Whether Cuban or Latin American, Flatly Rejected Any Allusion to the Imperialist Character of the Soviet State.





If One Ventured Into That Territory, Exclusion. The Exception Was My Great Friend, the Mexican Jorge Alberto Sánchez Hirales. Former Communist Student Leader and Militant of What Later Became the September Communist League in Mexico, He Was Imprisoned During the Shootout in Which the Leader of the Group René Ramos Zavala Died, but He Was Released From Prison With Other Prisoners, in the Exchange for the Life of an American Consul Kidnapped by the Guerrillas. He Lived in Cuba as a Political Asylum. He Was Anti-stalinist and the Question of Russian Bureaucratic Imperialism Interested Him Keenly; Furthermore, He Had the Theoretical Training Necessary to Study It.