The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is well-known, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss it was followed in November by a second, secret Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets hid from the world.AI-powered
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The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
What Happened to Mikoyan After the Death of Stalin?
Mikoyan was placed in charge of transporting food and supplies during World War II. After the war, Stalin's attitude towards Mikoyan soured because he spoke his mind. In 1957, an attempt was made to remove Khrushchev from power, but Mikoyan refused to back it. Even after Khrushchev's own less threatening cult of personality began to silence everybody else in the Soviet hierarchy, Mikoyan would still speak up.
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