![]() ![]() ![]() Heading back to Moscow, Metutsov knew that, as he put it, Che was tainted by Maoism and Trotskyism. Magnificent eyes, so deep, so generous, so honest, a stare that was so honest that somehow, one could not help but feel it…and he spoke very well he became inwardly excited, and his speech was like that, with all this impetus, as if the words were squeezing you.” Metutsov was falling in love with the man who was seen by Socialists around the world, including those in the Soviet Union, as the perfect image, the personification, of a revolutionary. ![]() Make no mistake, this was no gay flirtation. The problem, though, as the Russian explained decades later to Jon Lee Anderson, was that he was “falling in love” with Che. Metutsov’s job was to get Che, one of the three top Cuban leaders, to toe Moscow’s line. At the time, there was a savage tug-of-war between the Soviets and the Chinese over who would have priority in international Communism. In early 1964, Metutsov was in Cuba to figure out just whose side Ernesto “Che” Guevara was on. He was an aide to Party Secretary Yuri Adropov (who later ruled the Soviet Union as General Secretary), and he was responsible for overseeing relations with non-European socialist nations. Nikolai Metutsov was an important guy in the Kremlin. ![]()
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