And, while most of the rest of the United States rarely gives Communism a passing thought, at least not since the Soviet Union fell apart, Miami is immersed in every twist and turn of one of its final outposts.
This is highlighted by a recent order allowing troops not to iron their clothes - although not yet deprivation on the scale of sleeping in the open air with no running water, as in the final days at the last outpost Sterga.
That restaurant, which was established in 1917, was, of course, an uptown landmark — in its final decades, its romantic floral displays, elegant Howard Chandler Christy murals, and plates of Wiener schnitzel made it one of the city's last outposts of Old World glamour.
Today it serves as the region's final permanent human outpost before the vast Nubian desert, twice the size of mainland Britain and almost completely barren, begins unfolding to the north.
It was the last military outpost on that stretch of the Danube river, which caused it to frequently be part of the final line of defense between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, especially during the periods when Serbia was Ottoman-held.
This reserve is the last grazing outpost.
