you have to know, i heard president biden say this said that was, like we have to talk to michael beschloss. so, what do you make of that comparison? well, that was the most dangerous moment of, certainly, the cold war, the last number of 60 years. the cuban missile crisis, as you know, alicia, was 60 years ago this month. why is a dangerous? you and i know, maybe not all of our viewers to. we can accrue shove, the soviet leader, sneaked missiles into cuba with medium-range that were equipped to send medium-range nuclear weapons over most of the united states. and we later found out khrushchev gave local commanders on the island of cuba orders that, if the u.s. tried to attack the sites or invade, they should fire off those missiles. had that happened, there could have been 60 million people killed or more, incineration of the northern hemisphere.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev, idolised in the West for allowing eastern Europe to escape Soviet communist control but unloved at home for the chaos that his "perestroika" reforms unleashed, will be buried on Saturday after a public ceremony in Moscow's Hall of Columns. The grand hall, within sight of the Kremlin, hosted the funerals of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev.
few imagined at the time that would ever happen. mikhail gorbachev, though, ended up being the final leader of the soviet union. and along with ronald reagan oversaw the end of the cold war. he, of course, died at the age of 91. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has details. reporter: mikhail gorbachev, the communist leader whose brief six-year reign transformed the map and the world. the first soviet leader was a larger vision for his country, and was willing to hold a summit with ronald reagan the american president who called the soviet union an evil empire. little did gorbachev know he would preside over that empire. years later saying we could and should save the soviet union but we lost politically. the two met in reykjavik, iceland, in december 1987,
To many political pundits, analysts, spiritual men, and religious scholars, Mikhail Gorbachev’s name brings to mind a historic letter the founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini wrote to him in Jan. 1989