The Cuban Missile Crisis: broken ties & a secret pact
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
For many years after the Cuban Missile Crisis took place, there was in the West no real debate on the causes. Mark suggests that these insubordination attempts had further implications for the crisis to come. He says Khrushchev still deserves a good chunk of the blame because he just sent troops to Cuba - which would have been enough to deter US invasion.
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