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A Cuban homecoming 56 years later

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Across Cuba there's anticipation for residents and visitors alike.

In historic old Havana , Vladimir Melnikov, visiting from Russia with his son, knows his history.

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He lived under the old Soviet Union that once supported Fidel Castro's Cuba and heightened tensions with the U.S. But times change.

President Obama will address the Cuban people directly tomorrow on television - a first.

Elizabeth Vigoa and Osmel Gonzalez are from Havana.

They won't talk politics. Few Cubans will in a one party communist state where such freedoms do not exist.

But lack of political freedom doesn't stop this couple from hoping for better, hoping new U.S. and Cuba relations make life a bit easier and their pocketbooks a bit fuller.