One of the background events in the original was that communist Cuba and Nicaragua basically overran Central America (and Mexico? don't recall) before the actual invasion of the US. Even then they were an adjunct to the Soviets -- I don't really remember any Cuban troops in the movie beyond the speaking-role character that seemed to be sort of an advisor to the Soviet troops (been a while since I watched it, though). All the guys they were actually fighting seem to have looked pretty European and/or been speaking Russian.
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