Visions of Freedom
Subtitle: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa 1976-1991
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 669
ISBN-13: 9781469628325
Copyright date: 2013
First sentence: Mikhail Gorbachev visited Cuba in April 1989. Some of his closest aides had urged him not to go: Fidel Castro was a political dinosaur, they argued, his policy in the Third World was reckless, and going to Cuba would irritate the United States. Other aides disagreed. In a memo to Gorbachev accompanying a draft of the speech the Soviet leader would deliver to the Cuban  national Assembly, Georgi Shakhnazarov noted Cuba's economic crisis and added: "I have attempted to include warm words about the significance of the Cuban revolution...to give moral support to the Cuban government in this moment that is so difficult for them."
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