THEY DON'T MAKE EXISTENTIAL THREATS LIKE THEY USED TO :
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| Tsar Bomba 51 megaton Soviet H-bomb test , October 30 1961 |
Nikita Khrushchev
Chairman of the Presidium of
The Supreme Soviet of The
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
October 30, 1962
Chairman of the Presidium of
The Supreme Soviet of The
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
October 30, 1962
Dear Comrade Fidel Castro:
We have received your letter of October 28... and are taking into account your difficulties... from the threat of an attack by American imperialists ... In your cable of October 27 you proposed that we be the first to carry out a nuclear strike against the enemy’s territory. Naturally you understand where that would lead us. It would not be a simple strike, but the start of a thermonuclear world war.
Dear Comrade, I find your proposal to be wrong, even though I understand your reasons... Without a doubt the Cuban people would have fought courageously but... We struggle against imperialism, not in order to die, but to draw on all of our potential, to lose as little as possible, and later to win more, so as to be a victor and make communism triumph...
We consider that the aggressor has suffered a defeat. He was preparing to attack Cuba, but we stopped him ... This process of struggle will last for as long as there exists on this earth two sociopolitical systems, until one of the systems, and we know that it will be our communist system, triumphs world-wide...
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| Chairman of the Presidium of The Supreme Soviet of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
POSTSCRIPT: DECEMBER 4, 2016
The ashes of Cuba's longest serving Dictator For Life were interred today, two miles from San Juan Hill, where Theodore Roosevelt, later democratically elected as President of the United States, liberated the isand from imperial domination by defeating the forces of the King of Spain in 1898.
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