Successes & Failures: The Soviet Union
"Then the Chinese and American press started hooting and shouting about
how Khrushchev had turned coward and backed down...."
– Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (1970)
how Khrushchev had turned coward and backed down...."
– Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (1970)
The communist consensus was that the USSR had failed to protect Cuba. However, Khrushchev negotiated agreement from Kennedy that the USA wouldn't invade Cuba again.
"Today Cuba exists as an independent socialist country, right in front of the open jaws of predatory American imperialism. Cuba's very existence is good propaganda for other Latin American countries, encouraging them to follow its example and to choose the course of socialism."
-Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (1970)
Khrushchev also celebrated the removal of warheads in Turkey and Italy; however, it appeared Kennedy manipulated Khrushchev because of the secrecy of his accomplishment. Despite the positive outcomes for global safety, communist allies such as China called Khrushchev's surrender to the quarantine his greatest failure and used it as justification to sever ties with the USSR.
"Today Cuba exists as an independent socialist country, right in front of the open jaws of predatory American imperialism. Cuba's very existence is good propaganda for other Latin American countries, encouraging them to follow its example and to choose the course of socialism."
-Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (1970)
Khrushchev also celebrated the removal of warheads in Turkey and Italy; however, it appeared Kennedy manipulated Khrushchev because of the secrecy of his accomplishment. Despite the positive outcomes for global safety, communist allies such as China called Khrushchev's surrender to the quarantine his greatest failure and used it as justification to sever ties with the USSR.