Word: khrushchevism
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Private correspondence between President Kennedy and Soviet Party Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis shows that Khrushchev vehemently challenged the U.S. quarantine, warning of "catastrophic consequences for world peace...
...letter of October 23, the day after Kennedy's speech announcing the quarantine, Khrushchev wrote "that the armaments which are in Cuba, regardless of the classification to which they may belong, are intended solely for defensive purposes in order to secure the Republic of Cuba against the attack of an aggressor...
...Khrushchev letter also disputed the legality of the quarantine, saying the "United Nations Charter and international norms give no right to any state to institute in international waters the inspection of vessels bound for the shores of the Republic of Cuba...
...Khrushchev's letter and a letter sent to Kennedy three days later were both delivered to the U.S. embassy in Moscow where they were translated and transmitted to the Department of State in Washington...
...next day, acting United Nations Secretary-General U Thant announced that Kennedy and Khrushchev had agreed to avoid an immediate showdown in the Caribbean...