''Our veteran analyst Professor Valentin Zorin recalls
June 1961, when he was on the media team of Nikita Khrushchev as the
flamboyant Soviet leader was meeting with John Kennedy in Vienna:
"I
remember him bursting into a hotel bar, his necktie almost on his
shoulder, to share his first impression of the new American President.
“Their President is immature as leader. I’ll turn him any way I need
to”."
A year later, the Soviet Union deployed
nuclear-capable bombers and 42 nuclear-tipped rockets in Fidel Castro’s
Cuba. On October 27 1962, Cuban air defenses downed an American U-2 spy
plane as it was taking photos of the Soviet missile positions. The pilot
died. Naturally, Washington started fuming.''
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