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December 1958

Untitled Note on a Request for Assistance from the Socialist Party of Cuba to the Central Committee of the CPSU

В ЦК КПСС обратилось руководство народно социалистической партии Кубы с просьбой об оказании помощи в проведении кампании солидарности с борющимся кубинским народом. Кубинские товарищи сообщают, что в связи с провалом попыток подавить демократическую и национально-освободительную борьбу кубинского народа диктаторское правительство Батисты развернуло в последнее время массовую кампанию террора против самых различных кругов кубинского населения. Одновременно Батиста при активном содействии американских империалистических кругов ведет подготовку к новой открытой вооруженной интервенции Соединенных Штатов на Кубе. Кубинские товарищи просят помочь им в разоблачении правительственного террора и вмешательства американского империализма в дела Кубы. Они просили нас также передать их просьбу другим братским партиям.

Со своей стороны ЦК КПСС намерен через печать, радио и общественные организации выступить в поддержку борющегося кубинского народа.

The leadership of the People's Socialist Party of Cuba addressed the Central Committee of the CPSU with a request for assistance in conducting a campaign of solidarity with the struggling Cuban people. Cuban comrades report that due to the failure of attempts to suppress the democratic and national liberation struggle of the Cuban people, the dictatorial government of Batista has recently launched a massive campaign of terror against various sectors of the Cuban population. At the same time, Batista, with the active assistance of American imperialist circles, is preparing for a new open armed intervention of the United States in Cuba. Cuban comrades ask for help in exposing government terror and the interference of American imperialism in Cuban affairs. They asked us to also convey their request to other fraternal parties.

For its part, the CPSU Central Committee intends to come out in support of the struggling Cuban people through the press, radio and public organizations.

 

[undated, c. December 1958]

The Cuban communists asked the Soviets for help exposing the government's “terror” and the interference of “American imperialism” in Cuba’s affairs. The CPSU’s Central Committee agreed to support the fight of the Cuban people in the press, radio, and public organizations in the closing months of 1958.

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Národní Archiv České Republiky (National Archives of the Czech Republic), Prague, KSČ- ÚV-100/3, svazek 107, arch. jednotka 344. Contributed and translated by Radoslav Yordanov.

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