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The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution

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Fidel Castro's Take on the Agreement Between Kennedy and Khrushchev

Fidel Castro was infuriated when Khrushchev called him an SOB. He refused to accept the UN inspections of the packing and sending off of the missiles. The Americans were it was very similar to this as a great victory for them, but so were the Soviets. Fidel Castro wrote this rather deranged letter to Khrushchev that was actually very instrumental regardless of what Kennedy did.

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