Flowers, candles and a Cuban cigar are displayed in memory of Fidel Castro at the Cuban Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 27, 2016.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban President Fidel Castro embrace as Cuban Army Chief Raul Castro looks on before Putin's departure from Varadero, Cuba, Dec. 17, 2000.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (left) and Cuban leader Fidel Castro wave from an open top car as it drives through Havana's Revolution Square on April 2, 1989.

Fidel Castro (left) and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev meet for talks in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Feb.18, 1981.

Fidel Castro poses with a moose trophy and Soviet officials after a hunting trip in the woods near Moscow, Soviet Union, Jan. 18, 1964.

Fidel Castro (left) and Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev clasp hands at the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square on May 1, 1963.

First man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (right) sits next to Cuba's leader Fidel Castro at the Russian Embassy, July 26, 1961, in Havana, Cuba.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century rule, has died at age 90.

The bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as dozens, possibly hundreds, of assassination plots, died eight years after ill health forced him to formally hand power over to his younger brother Raul, who announced his death late Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, on state television.



