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10-26-2007, 09:10 PM
Putin compares U.S. missile defense plans with 1962 Cuban crisis
26/ 10/ 2007
MAFRA, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin compared on Friday U.S. missile defense system plans for Central Europe with the 1962 Cuban crisis.
Speaking at a news conference following the Russia-EU summit in Portugal, the president said the plans, announced in January, to deploy missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic were reminiscent of the political crisis caused by the Soviet Union's missile bases in Cuba in 1962.
"The situation is quite similar technologically for us. We have withdrawn the remains of bases from Vietnam and Cuba, but such threats are being created near our borders," Putin said.
http://img.rian.ru/images/8562/48/85624889.jpg
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071026/85635882.html
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
President John F. Kennedy announces on national television that military spy planes had discovered the existence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. He ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and demanded the removal of the missiles. During the next six days, the crisis escalated to a breaking point as the world tottered on the brink of nuclear war. Finally, on October 28, in exchange for a secret U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced his country's willingness to remove the weapons. The crisis ended as suddenly as it began, and the world breathed a sigh of relief. In November, Kennedy called off the naval blockade, and the missiles were removed from Cuba by the end of the year.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.za/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_October_22.php
President John F. Kennedy announcing the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba on October 22, 1962.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50RNAbmy3M
http://kremlin.ru/eng/sdocs/news.shtml#149660
26/ 10/ 2007
MAFRA, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin compared on Friday U.S. missile defense system plans for Central Europe with the 1962 Cuban crisis.
Speaking at a news conference following the Russia-EU summit in Portugal, the president said the plans, announced in January, to deploy missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic were reminiscent of the political crisis caused by the Soviet Union's missile bases in Cuba in 1962.
"The situation is quite similar technologically for us. We have withdrawn the remains of bases from Vietnam and Cuba, but such threats are being created near our borders," Putin said.
http://img.rian.ru/images/8562/48/85624889.jpg
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071026/85635882.html
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
President John F. Kennedy announces on national television that military spy planes had discovered the existence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. He ordered a naval blockade of Cuba and demanded the removal of the missiles. During the next six days, the crisis escalated to a breaking point as the world tottered on the brink of nuclear war. Finally, on October 28, in exchange for a secret U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced his country's willingness to remove the weapons. The crisis ended as suddenly as it began, and the world breathed a sigh of relief. In November, Kennedy called off the naval blockade, and the missiles were removed from Cuba by the end of the year.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.za/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_October_22.php
President John F. Kennedy announcing the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba on October 22, 1962.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50RNAbmy3M
http://kremlin.ru/eng/sdocs/news.shtml#149660