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ELI5: How does Cuba being a "communist" country affect its economy and its relationship with capitalism?
gpt
One of the major rifts between western capitalists and Cuba was not about capitalism vs communism directly (Cuba is not actually by definition communist).

But more about alliances with the USSR, and the Cuban missile crisis (Cuba Agreeing to accept nuclear ICBM's from Russia to aim at the US). 

Then Russia struck a deal with the US and removed the nukes from Cuba (against Castro's wishes) further straining US, Cuba relations.

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