In January 1959, Fidel Castro took power in Cuba and began to establish ties with fellow communist nations.

In September 1960, President Fidel Castro met with Polish First Secretary Władysław Gomułka during the United Nations summit in New York City.

[2] In 2009, Poland's equality minister, Elżbieta Radziszewska proposed to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda including images of the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

[10] Cuba's main exports to Poland are fish and other seafood, coffee, conserved fruit, alcoholic drinks and tobacco.

Poland's main exports to Cuba include dairy products, grains, meat, airplane parts and agricultural equipment.