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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

And Serhi Ploky's new book is Nuclear Folly,

a history of the Cuban missile crisis.

We come to a moment, a pause in the crisis at hand in the White House,

to ask Nikita Khrushchev, who was he at this moment?

Professor, my growing up and our growing up,

Khrushchev was emphasized as something of a large clownish character,

banging his shoe at the United Nations.

But he was bloody-minded, he was successful, he was a peasant, and he was a powerful actor,

often telling crude proverbs and overwhelming the better educated in the more ideological

presidium. However, what was he to Jack Kennedy? What was their history together that comes

to this crisis in 62? Well, first of all, about Nikita Khrushchev.

He was really mistook to be a clown by many people who dealt with him.

But the most important thing about Nikita Khrushchev is that he became successor to Joseph Stalin. He's not only survived

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