E-book excerpt: “A Different Russia” by Marvin Kalb

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Learn an excerpt beneath, and don’t miss Marvin Kalb’s commentary a couple of potential Trump-Putin summit on “CBS Sunday Morning” February 16! 

“A Different Russia” by Marvin Kalb

Kennedy proved to be Khrushchev’s final probability for a significant enhance in Soviet-American relations.  They met for one summit in Vienna in June 1961. After two days within the Austrian capital, gloom changed their earlier hopes for a radically improved relationship.  Suspicions deepened, as each leaders stumbled into harmful miscalculations about Berlin and Cuba.  Quickly an unpleasant wall could be working by means of the divided German capital and, not too many months later, Khrushchev would foolishly determine to attempt to slip nuclear-tipped missiles and troops into Cuba.

Kennedy had as soon as appealed to Khrushchev as a real accomplice for peace. He noticed within the younger president an adversary with whom he thought he might do enterprise. For a short time, one month on the 1963 calendar, shortly after signing the historic atmospheric nuclear take a look at ban settlement with the U.S., he allowed himself to stay inside a good looking bubble of hope. From time to time, with closest advisers or members of the family, he would think about six extra years of different main U.S.-Soviet agreements that will, amongst different issues, management the unfold of nuclear weapons, settle the Berlin disaster and result in a interval of real peace.

Why six years? he was requested.

Properly, he’d reply, Kennedy has two extra years in his present time period, after which one other 4 in his subsequent time period, which Khrushchev was sure he would win.

What Khrushchev didn’t know—couldn’t know—was that inside a month Kennedy could be lifeless and inside a yr he’d be ousted from energy.

When Khrushchev heard Kennedy had been shot, he cried. His goals for a brand new and wonderful period in Soviet-American relations had simply come to a tragic finish.

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“A Different Russia” by Marvin Kalb

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