Abstract
The authors analyze the vast range of attitudes toward the Soviet-from the minimization of the Soviet impact in Cuba to an exaggerated expression of gratitude toward the "Russians"-that they have encountered since they began their investigative collaboration in 2004, that had a high point on the publishing of Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience (2012). In this text, they seek to share their experience, telling the first stages and the current state of the question of the Cuban imaginary of the Soviet and the Russian.