Someone in a thread on fark.com said this:
true?
According to a History Channel documentary which I saw awhile back, the Russians had a midlevel military man (like,say, a Major) stationed in Cuba. It was his finger alone that was on The Button that would launch the Russian rockets aimed at the US.
No doubt, this officer was a true blue loyalist in constant contact with the Kremlin, but if he went a little batshit himself, or Fidel made a move for the Button, think of the consequences if those missiles got launched…
I’d say the Russians were out to lunch in this situation.
What did the average Soviet Russian think of Cuba?
Whatever they were told.
And that’s not a facietious answer, that’s a serious one.
What did the average American think of Cuba in the late 1960s?