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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1657
AUTHOR: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894–1971)
QUOTATION: My letter to Castro concluded an episode of world history in which, bringing the world to the brink of atomic war, we won a Socialist Cuba. It’s very consoling for me personally to know that our side acted correctly and that we did a great revolutionary deed by not letting American imperialism intimidate us. The Caribbean crisis was a triumph of Soviet foreign policy and a personal triumph in my own career as a statesman and as a member of the collective leadership. We achieved, I would say, a spectacular success without having to fire a single shot!
ATTRIBUTION: NIKITA S. KHRUSHCHEV, Khrushchev Remembers, trans. Strobe Talbott, p. 504 (1971).
SUBJECTS: Russia