Cuban Missile Crisis from the Cuban Perspective | Animated History
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"**We do want to make clear that one of the primary reasons for missiles being placed in Cuba was retaliation for the United States planting missiles in Turkey to threaten the Soviet Union... This information was omitted from the video mainly because we wanted to focus solely on the Cuban people and Cuban politics and we felt that if we ventured too far into the overall geopolitical situation of the Cold War as a whole we would lose focus with the "Cuban Perspective." Still, it's worth noting that it was not the Soviets who escalated first, but the Americans in the context of missile installations."
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And after this event, JFK, Castro, Nixon, McNamara, and a security detail of the Secret Service would be in a meeting at the Pentagon, until it was then breached by...uh, zombies. Wait, what timeline is this?
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Lol imagine being in charge of over 600 assassination attempts and all of them failed.
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"40,000 Soviet boots on the ground" So only 20,000 soldiers then?
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I’ve never seen Cuban Missile Crisis from Cuban perspective, let alone in animation. This is really well done.
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During the crisis my mother was a teenager in USSR, she lived in the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). When Fidel Castro has visited the city, she was choosen to greet him with a bunch of flowers on the airfield.
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“Notify the people that we have a bruh moment in Cuba” -JFK
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US- puts nukes in Turkey that could easily hit the USSR USSR- Does the same in Cuba USA- wait ur not supposed to do that
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I spent a semester studying abroad at the University of Havana. While there, I got to see the old presidential palace (now the museum of the revolution), where debris from downed US supplied aircraft were put on display after the bay of pigs. Interestingly, there are still bullet holes in the walls of the museum from the failed student led assassination attempt on Batista
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My history teacher always said that he was born nine months after the Cuban missile crisis which made the class laugh every time he mentioned it.
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USA: How are you still alive? Castro: i dont know.
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My parents were so convinced that war was coming that they put down a deposit for a fallout shelter then lost it when the crisis ended. I was pissed as I had already bragged to all my grade school friends that I was going to have the coolest "clubhouse" in the neighborhood.
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My family is from Cuba, and they were terrified, not knowing what was going on. When I learned about it in US history they portrayed Cuba as the aggressor and enemy...
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I love these videos. Great animations, writing, and always on point with so much information and facts. Can't wait for more!
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US: flys plane into another country without permission Cuba:shoots down plane US: how dare you
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