Speech by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCWP-CPSU Stepan Sergeevich Malentsov at the XXII Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Havana. Dear Comrades, We welcome all the participants in the meeting, and all the parties that could not come to Cuba, but stand with us in the same class formation. We express our special thanks to the hosts of the meeting, the Cuban comrades. An example of your courage and resilience inspires new generations of revolutionaries around the world. And the example of fraternal proletarian assistance to the Cuban Revolution, primarily by the Soviet Union, remains a subject of study for today’s communists. This is especially true in these October days, when exactly 60 years of the most intense days of confrontation with the Caribbean crisis, when the world stood a stone’s throw away from a possible global nuclear catastrophe, are exactly 60 years old. But thanks to the courage of the Cuban comrades and the fraternal solidarity of the ...