That sounds interesting. What if Cuba was a part of the negotiations in the missile crisis? I planned on doing this and in the negotiations i'd ask for Gitmo in exchange for Paramerica to oversee the removal of the nukes.A mitigated success for the Bay of Pigs? Castro stays in power but has to make some concessions, maybe.
A mitigated success for the Bay of Pigs? Castro stays in power but has to make some concessions, maybe.
I just joined after lurking for a little bit, and i quite like this place. I am playing as Cuba in an alternate history group and i'd like some help involving PODs for 1960s Cuba with Castro in charge.
WI Castro doesn't go communist at all?
I can't side with China in the sino-soviet split, because it didn't happen, instead of khrushchev in charge, its Malenkov, and because of that, the USSR hasn't destalinized.I was thinking of Castro taking China's side in the Sino-Soviet split. But on second thought this is probably unrealistic. Even if Castro were inclined to sympathize sentimentally with Mao's ultra-revolutionary line:
"Discussions during the Soviet visit were to have an important impact on the Revolution's economic policies. Cuba would now abandon Guevara's visionary projects of economic diversification, and — with Soviet assistance —would concentrate on sugar production. The Cuban government, noted one Soviet columnist approvingly, had refused to take 'the adventurist path of autarky', a crack against the Chinese, but also an attack on the alternative policies favoured by Guevara. On the Sino-Soviet dispute, Castro had already made a choice defined by economic necessity. China sent Cuba rice, circuses and condoms, while the Soviet Union sent the wherewithal for the construction of entire factories, as well as farm machinery and weapons — and, of course, the Russians bought large quantities of sugar." https://books.google.com/books?id=aVq0qOnLFusC&pg=PA210
There are many things already different with the timeline, i only play as Cuba, and its only for fun.I can't side with China in the sino-soviet split, because it didn't happen, instead of khrushchev in charge, its Malenkov, and because of that, the USSR hasn't destalinized.
how could they successfully assassinate Castro? Any ideas?The CIA could successfully assassinate Castro.
how could they successfully assassinate Castro? Any ideas?
how could they successfully assassinate Castro? Any ideas?
Oh i've seen your post/thing about killing Castro! hello! What would some good post 1960 assassinations be?There are dozens of ways Fidel Castro could be killed from the 1940's on. I list some of them (pre-1959) in my "Killing Fidel Castro" series:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/bJMH5QjS4aQ/AgvrPAnY1sMJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/PafV1ISi-HU/Bsf15ltZiYEJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/-AqvM6-midE/CjV8BVhDmGIJ
As I note in that last post, "There is one other possibility I have not mentioned: US ambassador to Cuba Arthur Gardner told Hugh Thomas that "he had suggested to Batista that the FBI or CIA should send a man up to the Sierra to kill Castro; Batista answered, 'No, no, we couldn't do that: we're Cubans.'" (Hugh Thomas, *Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom*, p. 947) But given the CIA's track record on attempted killings of Castro (and on a few other matters), even had Batista accepted Gardner's suggestion, I doubt that Castro would have been in much additional jeopardy... "
Oh i've seen your post/thing about killing Castro! hello! What would some good post 1960 assassinations be?