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The Cuban Missile Crisis: broken ties & a secret pact

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How Did Khrushchev See the Bay of Pigs?

How did Khrushchev see these acts of US aggression towards Cuba? I put this question to our third expert, William Taubman. He is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. We'll return to these ideas of belligerents and blame shortly. But first, I want to turn to the Soviet perspective.

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