The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 1922

PBS America (Freeview)

2:35 PM to 3:35 PM

Saturday 12 October

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With the pace of the 1950's Cold War increasing, alongside the the space race and the Berlin Wall, the decision to join forces with Cuba and build missile sites there brings the world to the brink of disaster. While the Cuban Missile Crisis is averted and a peace settlement reached, not long after JFK is assassinated in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, a US Marine veteran who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959