Perhaps, instead, Kruschev's boast that his nation would dance on our graves would have been realized.

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The move prompted the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev to build missile bases in Cuba in order to protect the island from U.S. overthrow, setting off a Cold War between the two superpowers.

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