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This isn't how it went down. Castro was open to working with the US and worked with Cuban liberal reformers initially, but he was pushed into the Soviet camp by US policy. Raul was a communist, but it's not really clear when Fidel was fully won over to communism. If the US had been more willing to work with him, he might never have taken a communist line.
Definitely Fidel was kind of a Maoist in the streets (how he fought a protracted peoples war from the countryside through a dialectical relationship with the peasantry's needs) and a social democrat in the sheets (basically just wanted self determination for Cuba as a liberal democracy with welfare programs).
is being a social democrat in the sheets when you pretend to be pleasing your partner but actually you do the bare minimum just to prevent the eruption of a violent orgasm