In October 1962, during the confrontation between then US President John F Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the world was very close to global nuclear war. In response to the American deployment of ballistic missiles in Turkey targeted at major Soviet cities, the Soviet Union retaliated with stationing their own missiles in Cuba.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57EL3eaVEKY[/media]
Get a glimpse of life inside Cuba. :clint:
a few decades late but interesting
[QUOTE=cccritical;27759177]a few decades late but interesting[/QUOTE]
Yeah but this video was just published.
If Russia had ICMB's then why did they bother putting them in Cuba if they could have hit them from anywhere?
[QUOTE=Miskatonic;27759794]Yeah but this video was just published.[/QUOTE]
it's got no new information, but this was still a time I'm incredibly interested in, thanks for posting it anyways
[QUOTE=cathal6606;27759903]If Russia had ICMB's then why did they bother putting them in Cuba if they could have hit them from anywhere?[/QUOTE]
The missles would reach the USA in 6 minutes, and it was probably more for fear too.
[QUOTE=cathal6606;27759903]If Russia had ICMB's then why did they bother putting them in Cuba if they could have hit them from anywhere?[/QUOTE]
Intimidation.
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damn, would have been awesome if ww3 happened. we would all be speaking russian and drinking vodka.
Khrushchev was just taking the piss out of Kennedy with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[QUOTE=bazyboy;27760203]damn, would have been awesome if ww3 happened. we would all be speaking russian and drinking vodka.[/QUOTE]
I never realized so much stupidity could be contained in one sentence.
nvm nice ban history bro
I wanna go to Cuba now, do they accept British Passports?
[QUOTE=The mouse;27760670]I wanna go to Cuba now, do they accept British Passports?[/QUOTE]
I don't think Cuba even stamps passports. That's why some Americans often vacation in Cuba (they'd have to fly there from Canada though).
[QUOTE=bazyboy;27760203]damn, would have been awesome if ww3 happened. we would all be speaking russian and drinking vodka.[/QUOTE]
You do know that the second a Russian missile is fired the United States fires every single thing they have, right?
Im a Cuban and that basically my life when i used to live in Cuba
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