Cold War - Cuba [E10/24]

JULIO THE FARMER IS MY FAVOURITE PERSON IN THE WORLD

Every time I see Kennedy I expect him to pause and say "I would like to take this moment to express my fondness for eh, Duff Beer".

They actually got Castro on this show? Holy crap 0.0 that is something. I would be shitting my pants.

18:15 Pablo knows his stuff.

how did this show manage to get fidel castro?? thats really crazy

From a brazillian here, Castro came down here on several ocasions, and we had a saying on him: 3 things that Castro never deny: "a woman, a cigar and a camera" And boy, that man loved a camera, specially if he could speak for hours and with a big mic, so it was easy for almost anyone here to get a interview, after the cold war, the catch was his staff that would tell if you was a imperialist media or a neutral one, that is why the americans could not get on him but any petty reporter here could.

Thankyou Vasile Luga, I watch these over and over and over again xxx

Never forget, Castro died on black friday. The most captialist day of the year.

They interviewed Fidel Castro???? Wow End all be all of documentaries

This is a great series. Watching in sequence makes the political motivations more understandable rather than watching them individually and 2nd guessing history in the comments for the sake of trolling. I can remember the fear I felt watching my Dad digging a bomb shelter while the events in this one were happening.

And Cuba has been paying the price ever since

not gonna lie, got my attention REAL quick when fkn fidel castro was being interviewed. wow.

This is an extremely valuable piece of footage. It features all the centre figures of the Cuban Missile Crisis, given that most of these people have died since...

Kennedy very carefully said that "no AMERICAN troops" would invade Cuba - which was, in the literal sense, true. And the technicality was delivered so smoothly that nobody picked up on it - at the time. If the Americans had opened their eyes in 1959 (taking the long view) they would have done business with Castro in Washington and could have had him in their pocket instead of forcing him to turn to the Russians for financial support. But after the big U.S. corporations and banks who (along with the Mafia) owned Congress were thrown out of Havana there wasn't anything positive that Kennedy (who inherited the whole mess) could do.

Thats fascinating stuff. Suspense was better than any movie Ive ever seen.

i wonder, was there a single problem that CIA wouldn't try to resolve with LSD ?

Theme music sounds like from those many spy films and TV series that were made and became so popular after the first James Bond film 007 .

Their series is so amazing interviews from all sides

A few years ago I sailed on a cruise liner which was to make a stop in Havana. I asked a stewardess if Cuba was in a different time-zone and to what time I should set my watch. She said "Yes - 1959" !! The end of the world was imminent and what did Americans do? They went shopping.

we exploited the shit out of cuba before the revolution.

watching this in class and almost shat myself seeing castro

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 1:45 Cuban Revolution 1953-59; Fulgencio Batista; Fidel Castro 4:22 Land Reforms & Nationalization 5:38 Trade embargoes; CIA sabotage operations in Cuba using exiles 8:32 Botched Bay of Pigs🐷 Invasion 15:02 Cuban Missile Crisis; Naval Quarantine; DEFCON-2; 34:18 Adlai Stevenson vs. Valerian Zorin @ UN

Golden age of history docs when freakin fidel castro and mcnamara were alive to be interviewed

“The bay of pigs, we know you were there”

COLD WAR 2.0 THANK YOU BUSH OBAMA

Don't wait for the translation! The klingon Admiral Chang couldn't have said that better. 😂

Just casually opens with Fidel Castro.... that's awesome hahah

Castro was one sick SOB

Back when CNN was good and impartial

Imagine doin Mrs Kelly’s homework

The intro 🔥🔥🔥

What I fail to understand is that why didn't Russia do anything when USA placed it's missiles in Turkey. Were they unaware and choose to live with it once they came to know about it? Wasn't there any crisis that time ?

The inspiration for the “Tropico” Series 😉

Castro: “no murder, no crimes” yeah bull sh!t. What about all of the people thrown into prison who opposed his regime, never hear about them, do we.

Pretty hard to believe that Fidel Castro is now dead at 90...

It is amazing to me how the entire planet came withing meer minutes of complete obliteration. I can only imagine how many of those in power in Washington aged about 30 yrs in a period of about 2 weeks.

Cold war meets hot salsa

I love these documentaries. They are excellently made, and are amazingly good. In this episode, however, I must admit that I think it's unfair that Pope John XXIII's broadcast on Sep 23 isn't even mentioned. It helped give both world powers the peacemaker aura which helped bring the crisis to a peaceful conclusion.

It took me a couple seconds to realise they actually had Fidel Castro on the documentary, i thought it was some old footage or something they just put in. Impressive work CNN!

Impressive how they got Castro, but it's a shame they didn't manage to convince Kennedy to part-take in this interview. A debate between the two would have been wonderful to see.

The Bay of Pigs fiasco reminds me a little of Operation Market-Garden in Holland in September 1944. The original plan had merit in both but too many compromises, red flags or changes to the original idea had seriously hurt the odds of success yet both went ahead with predictable disastrous results. There are differences, of course in each event, like the change of administration in the Bay of Pigs planning stage whereas in 1944 the Allied Command was the same throughout Market-Garden. Bottom line was that both should never have been allowed to proceed after serious red flags or change in circumstances became evident. The Bay of Pigs should’ve been stopped when Kennedy cancelled the Air element of the plan for fear it would reveal the extent of American involvement and Market-Garden was allowed to proceed despite Allied Intelligence reports (and photos) of German Panzer units refitting in the area and the fact that paratroopers would have to be dropped up to 8 miles from their objective. The scale of Market-Garden was much larger but both operations led to many unnecessary dead, wounded & captured men.

What dilemmas did Kennedy have to deal with during the crisis? How close were we to a 3rd world war? Who was involved in making strategic decisions in the US? In what ways were the perspectives of Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro different? Who do you think was most influential in ending the crisis? What role did Castro play? Help please!

18:38 Those frames of black and white aerial film are HUGE ! A single frame in 35mm nikon slr back then would be like five hundred to a thousand times smaller . Those pictures enlarged would be useless blobs of haze of shades of gray if from a 35mm frame .

I turned four years old at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I had no idea how close we came to WW3. 😳

What about the X-Men???

Havana oo na na (the pop war)

indescribablee.

Great video!!

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The most dangerous place in Cuba used to be between Fidel and a camera crew.

4:57 khrushchev be like. lemme see whats in your pocket.

I like this

I'm against communism and all but the U.S were the provocateurs of this crisis and held double standards.

अच्छा फैसला किया जो मिसाइल वहां से हटा ली अन्यथा यह पूरी पृथ्वी को ही बर्बाद कर देते

At some point Kennedy should have just called up the soviets and said, look, this is silly what we're doing. How about you do you and we'll do us, promise each other not to try and force each other's system on anybody and just let people decide for themselves what system they want to live under through democratic elections.

does anyone know how to source these documentaries? The writer or producer? The release date?

I brought several exotic yet poisonous breeds of cats into Cuba ahead of the Invasion. Unfortunately they did not wreck havoc like we thought

Okay this might sound incredibly stupid but was that the actual Fidel Castro they interviewed?

Anyone know the official citation for this source? Who produced it? etc.

Future ref 4:49 - 5:00 13:46 14:03 24:50

This episode should've ended with footage of the Soviets ships returning back to Russia under American survielence not Pierre Salinger interview.

11:30 - 'Rescue freedom and Democracy'. What a joke.

I find it funny how the americans put nuclear missiles in Turkey and as soon as the Soviets put their missiles close to the USA the US americans were the ones that complained. To illustrate it more authentically imagine you are in a street fight with fists against another person. The person whips out a knife and as soon as you see that you whip out your own knife. Upon you whipping out your own knife the other person start complaining that you are using a knife. Very contradictory...

40:22, Bobby Kennedy's good advice the averted a nuclear missile strike.

I hate to imagine what would of happened if Donald Trump was in JFK's shoes

Wasnt the decision to allow Soviet missiles in Cuba a virtual handover of Cuban sovereignty to the Soviets?

yeah this episode got me worked up. I am kind of glad Nixon wasn't in the office instead but I still feel like it was Kennedy's fault it got this bad in the first place. Why couldn't we try to help Cuba by actually helping them like in the Marshall act instead of attacking them? Castro might of been paranoid already but we certainly made him more so. Then we encourage people to go die and never help them. Also Kennedy didn't hardly do anything when the Berlin wall is getting built as well. I am going to get really mad during the Vietnam episode.

Russia always trying to be badass but ending up shooting themselves in the foot

The missile crisis was like Pearl Harbour and 9/11 to an American sensibility i.e a hard reminder that they were not invincible or ultimately out of harm's reach.

The cia never was able to kill Castro. For good reason

I had some sympathy for Castro. But on this interview he shows himself to be a narrowminded, black and white kind of thinker. Was he really under any illusion that the USSR would fight a thermonuclear war because of his petty Island revolution? Really? He was dismayed about the USSR decision? The man must have been crazy.

3:28 (you can leave your hat on...)

Defensive Atomic bombs? Cuba was left defefenless. Trade embargo still in effect against Cuba.

Trump would have simply built a wall

It boggles my mind that they went to nuclear war would lead to thousands dead from oh its just a few japanese fishermen who just happened to be *miles* away but its fine

Jesus Loves You All

Fidel Castro was a brilliant revolutionary leader, who liberated his country from American colonialism, brought health care education and massive social progress to millions of Cubans, and made Cuba a small Caribbean island into a major player in international politics. And this despite decades of American sanctions, embargo, terrorist attacks and subversion,and invasion, and threats to use nuclear bombs against a tiny island nation. I don't agree with everything he did, but these are the hard cold facts. Love it or hate it.

Nuclear weapons in Turkey, Nuclear weapons in Cuba. Nuclear weapons withdrawn from Cuba, nuclear weapons withdrawn and Russian support of Cuba withdrawn. Fidel a tad perturbed.

Manifold.

when I look to this documentary, I'm so pissed at the United states. Their companies lost their possessions in this region, so they felt justify to trigger a war and declare a trade embargo. The whole shit cooked up until we were at the verge of total destruction. And all this was diffused as the almighty king USA decided have a talk. But they learned nothing since and made the same mistake again and again. If this land were a guy, he would have a tutor.

Using Fidel as a source is extremely problematic. He keeps talking about advising Kruschev, but other versions say that the Russians never consulted with the Cubans during the crisis.

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They got Fidel Castro because this was CNN in 1990 and Castro watched CNN alot.

You will not wait for the translation used in Star Trek 6

When the Americans put missiles close to the Soviet Union, it's fine. But when the Soviet Union deployed missiles close to the US, the Americans went nuts.

43:39 is that the biggest d*** in the history of USA? no not the guy, in the background.. it was the first thing that came to mind.. great serie, very interesting to watch

usa and soviets should have made a deal us gets cuba soviets get vietnam.

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Fidel Castro looks fucking insane in this interview. I half expect Kenneth Branagh to narrate "I am on a drug, it's called FIDEL CASTRO",

Several comments here say that this series is from CNN. Proof? I see no evidence of this.

06:31 11:43 35:23- 44:15

Hhh

soo castro was'nt very smart

Cuba is much closer to the US than Turkey is to Russia

After that terrible fiasco was resolved, both Kennedy and Kruschev (Along with those involved) should have been hanged for crimes against humanity.

I will pay a 1000 usd for every truth that comes out of castros mouth. There is none, matter of fact this documentary is full of lies, opinions and contradictions.

If Americans do it it's cool but if soviet did it all he'll breaks loose?? Typical Americans, they deserved one more term of trump🤣

Typical Americans, its ok they have nuclear missles in Turkey and all around Russia, but Russian missles around them are an outrage. Thank god Russians were sane in this and other situations and kept the world peace.

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fuck usa imperaliasm viva fidel castro viva ernaste che guevara viva raul castro