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| caption = [[Raúl Castro]] (left), with his arm around his second-in-command, [[Che Guevara|Ernesto "Che" Guevara]], in their Sierra de Cristal mountain stronghold in [[Oriente Province]], Cuba, in 1958
| date = [[Moncada Barracks|26 July 1953]] – [[Battle of Santa Clara|1 January 1959]]{{br}}({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=07|day1=26|year1=1953|month2=01|day2=01|year2=1959}})
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| result = 26th of July Movement victory
[[File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|thumb|The [[flag of the Soviet Union]]]]
* Overthrow of [[Fulgencio Batista]]'s government
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* Establishment of a revolutionary government led by [[Fidel Castro]]
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* [[United States embargo against Cuba]]
* Severance and end of [[Cuba–United States relations]]
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* [[Counterrevolution in the Escambray]]
* [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]
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| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|M-26-7.svg}} '''[[26th of July Movement]]'''{{br}} '''Supported by:'''
| combatant1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Cuba sky blue.svg}} '''[[Neocolonial Republic|Cuban Government]]'''{{br}}
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| commander1 = '''[[Fulgencio Batista]]'''<br/>[[Eulogio Cantillo]]<br/>José Quevedo Pérez<br/>Alberto del Río Chaviano<br/>Joaquín Casillas{{Executed}}<br/>Cornelio Rojas{{Executed}}<br/>Fernández Suero<br/>Cándido Hernández<br/>[[Alfredo Abon Lee]]
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| strength1 = 20,000 (1958)
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| strength2 = 3,000 (1958)
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| casualties1 = 2,000 killed<ref name=Dixon/>{{hr}}Arms captured:{{br}}1 [[M4 Sherman]] tank{{br}}12 mortars{{br}}2 bazookas{{br}}12 machine guns{{br}}21 light machine guns{{br}}142 [[M-1 rifle]]s{{br}}200 Dominican Cristobal submachine guns<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jowett |first1=Philip |title=Liberty or Death: Latin American Conflicts, 1900–70 |date=2019 |page=309}}</ref>
| casualties2 = 1,000 killed<ref name=Dixon>{{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=Jeffrey S. |last2=Sarkees |first2=Meredith Reid |title=A Guide to Intra-state Wars: An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816-2014 |date=2015 |publisher=CQ Press |page=98}}</ref>
| casualties3 = Thousands of dissidents arrested and murdered by Batista's government; unknown number of people executed by the Rebel Army<ref>Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson (1997). ''International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management, 1945–1995''. Congressional Quarterly.</ref><ref>Singer, Joel David and Small, Melvin (1974). ''The Wages of War, 1816–1965''. Inter-University Consortium for Political Research.</ref><ref>Eckhardt, William, in [[Ruth Sivard|Sivard, Ruth Leger]] (1987). ''World Military and Social Expenditures, 1987–88'' (12th edition). World Priorities.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://havanatimes.org/?p=123355|title=Archived copy|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909165242/https://havanatimes.org/?p=123355|archive-date=9 September 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945. During the 1950s, he wanted to allow some private industry, weaken the kolkhoz system, and restore diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Molotov suspected that Beria was responsible for Stalin's death.
Beria's ally, Viktor Abakumov, was arrested in 1951 and removed from his position as leader of the MVD. Soon after, many of Beria's supporters were purged from the Georgian Central Committee for corruption. (Full article...)
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