In 1959, during his visit to the United States, Fidel Castro pays his respects at the Lincoln Memorial by placing a wreath. According to The New York Times: “At the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Castro walked up to the crowd of several hundred, shook hands, and chatted. Then he went up
“I am now a hundred years and five months old, I’m still young, I wrote a letter to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. I was a machine gunner from 1941 to 1945, I participated in the fronts. Send me to Ukraine to defend Russia!”