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"**We do want to make clear that one of the primary reasons for missiles being placed in Cuba was retaliation for the United States planting missiles in Turkey to threaten the Soviet Union... This information was omitted from the video mainly because we wanted to focus solely on the Cuban people and Cuban politics and we felt that if we ventured too far into the overall geopolitical situation of the Cold War as a whole we would lose focus with the "Cuban Perspective." Still, it's worth noting that it was not the Soviets who escalated first, but the Americans in the context of missile installations."

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