Date: 21/03/2022 18:00:12
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1863368
Subject: Cuban missile crisis. General knowledge question

I know the answer to this (in coarse detail only) but want to know how many forumites also know it.

What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis before the USSR shipped nuclear missiles towards Cuba?

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Date: 21/03/2022 18:07:13
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1863372
Subject: re: Cuban missile crisis. General knowledge question

mollwollfumble said:


I know the answer to this (in coarse detail only) but want to know how many forumites also know it.

What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis before the USSR shipped nuclear missiles towards Cuba?

Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk in the UN.
Over.

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Date: 21/03/2022 18:12:42
From: Spiny Norman
ID: 1863375
Subject: re: Cuban missile crisis. General knowledge question

It’s all here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

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Date: 21/03/2022 19:14:10
From: captain_spalding
ID: 1863381
Subject: re: Cuban missile crisis. General knowledge question

mollwollfumble said:


I know the answer to this (in coarse detail only) but want to know how many forumites also know it.

What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis before the USSR shipped nuclear missiles towards Cuba?

Very briefly, America placed missiles in (IIRC) Turkey, which annoyed Khruschev, so he decided on a bit of tit-for-tat.

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Date: 21/03/2022 19:18:53
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1863382
Subject: re: Cuban missile crisis. General knowledge question

That was back when we had proper communism not this wishy washy pretend modern communism that wants two bob each way and has sold out to RUNNING DOG CAPITALIAM

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Date: 21/03/2022 19:24:32
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1863385
Subject: re: Cuban missile crisis. General knowledge question

captain_spalding said:


mollwollfumble said:

I know the answer to this (in coarse detail only) but want to know how many forumites also know it.

What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis before the USSR shipped nuclear missiles towards Cuba?

Very briefly, America placed missiles in (IIRC) Turkey, which annoyed Khruschev, so he decided on a bit of tit-for-tat.

And Castro would have been more willing to accomodate the USSR after the Bay of Pigs Invasion even though it failed to oust him.

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