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Russia Says Castro Wanted No Memorials

Baruch Pletner,PhD,MBADec 4, 20160

Russian news agency TASS quotes Cuba’s president Raul Castro as saying that his late brother and erstwhile Cuban dictator Fidel asked that no landmarks in Cuba be named after him and no statues erected in his honor. Raul Castro mentioned that this was in line with Fidel’s long-standing opposition to…

Competency And Legitimacy In Russia

Baruch Pletner,PhD,MBANov 29, 2016March 2, 20170

Faced with the possibility of losing his American colonies, King George III of England petitioned Catherine the Great of Russia for 20,000 of her crack troops to help squelch the rebellion. At the end of the 18th century, the Russian army under the command of the undefeated General en Chef…