I nominate Nikita Krushchev to be the most important figure in the cold war, literally playing 3d chess with a bloodthirsty imperialistic regime and preventing nuclear war.
Commenting on Kennedy’s government giving the OK to launch the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba:
“ If you did this as the first step towards the unleashing of war, well then, it is evident that nothing else is left to us but to accept this challenge of yours. If, however, you have not lost your self-control and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter that knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you, because you yourself understand perfectly of what terrible forces our countries dispose.”
-the man himself
Im endlessly annoyed by the JFK worship irl and online, even amongst my fellow countrymen/women. JFK was a moronic womanizer, who stumbled his way from one scandal to the other. When the Cuba crisis happened he was pumped with drugs and constantly high, its a miracle the ugly dickhead didnt plunge the world into hell. Yet SOMEHOW he gets credit for ending the crisis?? Give me a fucking break.
Actually someone should write and effort post about the JFK couple derangement syndrome, especially those raving about his "good looks". Like what good looks?? They were both ugly as fuck??
Reading some of the behind the scenes accounts of the Cuban missile crisis is absolutely blood chilling. We came so close.
and somehow the only one that gets mentioned is the soviet submarine capitain
I think it was the Political Officer not the Capitain. I think the top 3 officers (Capitian Executive and Political) all had to agree and the 3rd highest the Political said no. But I could be wrong
Yeah hearing meeting minutes straight out of Dr. Strangelove was very unsettling during the second season of Blowback.
When we were doing this lesson in high school, my class agreed Khrushchev contributed the most to ending the crisis