The Communist Party of Cuba's First Secretary is Fidel Castro's younger brother.
 Scholars such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Francois Furet have relied upon conceptions of the party emphasizing centralized control, a top-down hierarchical structure, ideological rigidity, and strict party discipline
 The Soviet Union unified many of the Comintern's original goals among its East European allies under the aegis of a new organization, the Cominform

