The changes that communism brought to Cuba were many. For one, commercial and political relationships were broken with many nations making Cuba an ethnocentric country. In relation to the atmosphere of the Cold War, communism greatly influenced contemporary geopolitics and the timeline of the Cold War. It brought to the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war that had become the daily fear in American society and elsewhere.
Russia lost the Crimean War for many reasons, one being their geographic hindering from their neighboring Black Sea, which caused a diminished reaction and disabled their ability to attack.