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444 pages, Hardcover
First published April 13, 2021
If our position puts peace throughout the world at risk, then we would think it more correct to consider the Soviet side free from its obligations, and we will resist. Come what may. We have the right to defend our dignity ourselvesIn his report Mikoyan says that this was like dropping an exploding bomb in the room, but he urged Khrushchev not to draw any conclusions from the statement. Mikoyan calmed Castro and received his reluctant acceptance to the agreement's terms. Eventually, Castro accepted even the ground inspections. Plohky doesn't tell us what inducements were offered but we know that after the Missile Crisis Cuba received significant benefits from the USSR in the form of sugar purchases, provision of oil and other commodities, and infrastructure construction. These ended with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union that sent Cuba into a prolonged economic malaise.