We had installed the missiles not for the purpose of attacking the U.S. 'My comrades in the leadership and I realized that our friend Fidel totally failed to understand our purpose.

'Castro suggested that to prevent our nuclear missiles from being destroyed, we should launch a pre-emptive strike against the U.S.,' he said. Khrushchev commited by Edward Crankshaw and translated by Strobe Talbolt. On the Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev recalled, intelligence reports indicated that the United States was preparing to strike Cuba after Soviet missiles were installed in the country. Khrushchev remembers : the last testament / Nikita S. I cannot specifically say what kind of help they gave us, but I heard from both Stalin and (Vyacheslav) Molotov, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the Rosenbergs provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atom bomb. Khrushchev said: 'I was part of Stalin's circle when he mentioned the Rosenbergs with warmth. In the memoirs, Khrushchev said Josef Stalin was grateful to the Rosenbergs, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiring to give American atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Excerpts are published in another book, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, due out in October from Little, Brown. Last year, Time magazine acquired the tapes. Khrushchev himself had authorized the deletions, for apparent political reasons. But Khrushchev's friends and relatives withheld some of the tapes, fearing he had been too candid. When the tapes dictated by Nikita Khrushchev in retirement first made their way to the West, there were key gaps in the narrative. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament Paperback Januby Nikita Khrushchev (Author), Strobe Talbott (Editor, Translator), Edward Crankshaw (Introduction), See all formats and editions Paperback 9.52 5 Used from 9.

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