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Originally Posted by Fast Forward
An interesting post. I'd like to read more. Have you got a link?
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All my referrences are from print but include both the 1970 abridged and 1997 (I think) unabridged Khrushchev's autobiography. I also read a very interesting biography of Khrushchev, although I can't remember the author at the moment. I'll check my library when I get home and add it in.
As far as Radio Moscow, that's been in every event history I've ever read of the crisis. Wikipedia even has it as a part of theirs. Up until the early 70's, ambassidors were never really trusted to be good mouthpieces by the Soviets (too big of a chance of Western influence), so the primary method of communication by the Soviet government when they wanted news broadcast was Radio Moscow. Since it was an obviously flawed system in terms of nuclear brinksmanship, they accepted the "red telephone" idea without any real complaint.