team to verify the dismantling of the missiles. During the evacuation of Soviet missiles, a American U-2 spy plane was shot down by the orders of Castro which caused much commotion in the states. This caused a total outpour of negative propaganda towards the Cubans and the Soviets.Afterwards, though diplomatic relations with the Soviets and the US began to settle, relations with Cuba and Russia began to worsen. The Cuban government saw the dismantling of the missiles to be a moral defeat for the Soviet Union. Wisely, the man who jumpstarted the Soviet-Cuban relationship, Mikoyan, was once again called upon and sent back to Cuba to discuss matters with Castro. Once the disputes were settled with Cuba, and Mikoyan returned to Russia, Khrushchev decided to write Castro a letter pertaining to his feelings on the recent crisis. He mentions the main objective of keeping Cuba a socialist country was successful in which no threat of invasion is posed towards the island nation.The Aftermath of the CrisisIn the late 1960s, Castro focused on revamping the agricultural system in Cuba. His primary objective was to dominate the international sugar market with modern machinery and technology. Because of the blockade on Cuba, the world sugar prices suffered much inflation but returned to normal after other countries elevated their sugar production to meet the demand. Cuba established a goal to produce ten million tons of sugar crop by the year 1970, which marked Lenins 100th birthday. Khrushchev mentions that Kennedy was a great loss for the Americans and identified him as a true statesman. He also feels that if he lived through his term, that relations between the Soviet Union and the United States would have been better because Kennedy wouldnt have allowed the US to be defeated in Vietnam in the later years to come.I feel that the Cuban missile crisis served not only as another example of how nuclear war is in fact possible but also allowed interact...
