>>22984333I don't know why this idea came to me, but, for example, if Russia still considered itself white and European in the same way it did before WWI (trying to modernize both industrially and civilly, maybe not quite removing the Tsar but doing some other things and improving life quality, removing the civil position of "serf" and more like "worker", trying to take part in conquest and imperialism where and how it could) then why after WWII would it make friends with Cuba, which is mostly just former slaves and Spanish-slave mulattos? The union between the USSR and Cuba was even before the Civil Rights movement really kicked off. So, why make friends with someone so ethnically, culturally, and of a different race than you other than because we're coming onto an idea of "modernity" where those things no longer matter quite so much and because there are greater things that bind you, e.g. communism?
Or am I seeing this wrong?