1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ m14brony http://rainbowdash.net/m14brony http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3981917 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/9" class="url" title="Rarity"><span class="fn nickname mention">rarity</span></a></span> Admittedly, I am glad that you brought up the subject, as I need to brush up on my studies (two years of 14-16 hour days between college and work did wonders to make me &quot;rusty&quot;). :) <br /><br />The isolation of Cuba definitely had its effect, and it played no small role in its orientation toward the USSR (the isolation of the revolution in backward Russia also played a key role in the degeneration of the USSR from its early proletarian democracy into the infamous Stalinist regime; Marx long ago noted that all of the &quot;old crap&quot; would inevitably return in such situations).