[ROTB]

After the USSR was no longer funding them, things went downhill.

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(Playing Devil’s Advocate) Soooo, what made the USSR so prosperous that it could prop up Cuber?

[nickcarraway]

It wasn't prosperous- but it had a heck of a lot more resources than Cuba. (Cuba had the no. 1 economy in Latin America before Castro)

And don't forget a lot of "Western capitalists" were in business with the USSR.