Taster: 'The only way to save Cuba' Ep 3 - How Kennedy loses the Cuba Missile Crisis
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English - December 27, 2020 12:55 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Short taster for the longer length episode 3. All episodes stand alone.
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins not because Castro is a dangerous communist but because he is NOT. Khrushchev tells his ruling council: ‘The only way to save Cuba is to put missiles there’ - not only to prevent an American invasion, but also to keep Fidel Castro sweet.