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Transcripts For CNNW The Sixties 20140614

Or die. I think, unless something is done, humanity will destroy itself. Early on in the 60s, you have this backdrop of tension. You have capitalism versus communism and it was palpable fear. In the United States and in the soviet union, that the two sides were going to get into a nuclear war. The temper of the world is crisis. Architect of the crisis, khrushchev. As they headed the soviet union, he was very ideological. He believed that the future belonged to communism. He said, America Needs to be contained and the only way to do it is to create crises all around the american empire. Khrushchev came to the u. N. In 1960s and said were grinding up missiles like sausages. Well bury you. And americans took it seriously. The toughness of the khrushchev speech did as some propaganda fuels of the fire thats raging diplomatically between moscow and washington. To see if the soviets ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Sixties 20140614 23:12:00

Russia. when the russians put yuri gegarin into space, it was another sense of america being knocked back on its heels. we re behind. khrushchev greeted the hero saying now let the capitalist countries try to catch up. for the russians to be the first to put a man in space, dealt a real blow, not only to american pride, but restarted the whole question about whether the u.s. government could protect the american people. the government spaceship weighed 5 tons. the biggest payload to push into orbit weighed a few hundred pounds. if you can put a man into space, you can put nuclear warheads into space and lots of them and then we re in trouble. this is marvin cal in moscow. the people that work back here in the kremlin are convinced that the balance of power in the ....

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