war was not a military struggle, but it was the future of communism, and he had the cuban missile crisis not worked out well, you know, no telling what would have happened. >> given that perspective, is that why his death is drawing such polarized reaction, and some are celebrating in the streets, and some leaders are expressing sadness about this? >> he was very symbolic, because they say he established a communist out post in the western hemisphere and then allowed the soviet union to put nuclear weapons in the western hemisphere that threatened the united states and really the world, and if we had msnbc and all these 24-hour news outlets back then, we would have seen