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S2 Episode 8 - “We’ll All Meet In Hell”

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Fidel Castro's Letter to Khrushchev

Fidel Castro wrote his own letter to Khrushchev, apparently in a somewhat tangled series of rewrites and translations. The Cuban Prime Minister now put the odds of a US attack on his country at around 20-1. General Pliev, in charge of the Soviet mission in Cuba, message the following to Moscow: "I consider that the aggression is almost imminent within the next 24 or 72 hours"

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