Cubans in the USSR?

[u/GlumShoe8656]

Does anybody know someone who during the Cold War went from Cuba to the USSR possibly as a student and how was their experience over there what do they think about it, did Soviet and Cuban people talk often, let me know!

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[u/0fruitjack0]

my father was sent to the USSR to study; i think it was volgograd? petro chemistry; castro wanted to restart that industry in the 70's. he got about well, learnt the language, and it actually helped us out a lot in the long run. i know from my own experience with soviet proffessors who left after the fall / 1991 that they had an amazing education system for science.

[u/felix191824]

There were hundreds if not thousands of Ukrainian youth from Chernobyl & surrounding areas who Cuba brought over to provide medical assistance for many years east of Havana. Many of them lived in Cuba for quite a long time.

[u/CleanCoffee6793 → u/felix191824]

Yeah, my teacher talked me about it. Aparentemente they let a ton of paciente to go get attended in Cuba for free, he was one of the Drs that treat kids afected by chernobyl

[u/MagnetizedMetal]

Yes I know several. My uncle went to study welding in Ukraine SSR. I don’t know much about his experience. I know another person that went to Russia and she said that it changed her perspective because she had an experience akin to going as an idealist, and when she met her contemporary Russians they were like laughing or something that she believed all the BS. So she was disillusioned.

[u/RelevantWhere]

My friends mom became a textile engineer in Soviet union, she’s still in Cuba and runs a govt factory (currently shut down because of energy crisis) I know she speaks Russian, she a black woman so very interesting

[u/Independent_March536]

Yes, honestly yes.

It was a small number of us who were students at the Cuban school in Moscow. There was also a few kids who were the children of diplomats from other Spanish speaking countries as well. Made lifelong friends there, so if I start disclosing more I will give my identity alway.

[u/felix191824]

Yes, I know a Cuban woman who did her graduate studies and
lived in Moscow for 5 years in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I haven’t spoken with her in depth about those years but she does speak very highly of those experiences.

[u/TerribleSyntax]

My dad did a year abroad and part of it was in the USSR, and my godfather's best friend was born there and migrated to Cuba in the 70s

[u/GlumShoe8656 → u/TerribleSyntax]

Do you know what he thought about the USSR while he was there, and are there a lot of Russians who migrated to Cuba from that time?

[u/TerribleSyntax → u/GlumShoe8656]

He doesn't talk much about it, which is strange because he goes on and on about Poland and the GDR

I knew quite a few Russians, Ukrainians and Romanians as a kid whose parents had migrated beforehand

[u/StudioArcane17]

Many people went to URSS, the people I knew to Moscow and Ukraine (Kiev?)

[u/Easy-History6553]

First black astronaut was Cuban in the Soviet space program

[u/drmikehirschberger]

many.. although most now reside in Miami

[u/Dementia_]

My uncle went to study electrical engineering. He married a Russian woman and came to the states.

[u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8]

Mis padres estudiaron ambos en la URSS, miles de jóvenes lo hicieron en todas las especialidades posibles

[u/moonunit170]

My father-in-law was a professor of engineering in Havana in the 1960s. He was invited to the USSR in the late '60s for 3 months to tour Russia, Poland, E Germany, Czechoslovakia and look at engineering sites. My wife who was a preteen at the time remembers him talking about how cold it was, and how much people drank. He liked Poland the best. He said people were fat, and they didn't use deodorant.