At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959 ... coupled with similarities of ideology, pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. So began years of dangerous political manoeuvring ...

A CNN team on the ground saw members of the small Russian community in Cuba and Russian diplomats carrying national flags to welcome ... Soviet Union during the Cold War that briefly hosted ...

The US is moving towards ending its 50-year political and economic embargo on Cuba, a breakthrough in American relations with the island nation. But at the height of the Cold War, the US was ...