> The Cuban missile crisis was the USSR's response to the US having nukes in turkey. > >

This is only the second time I've seen someone comment this in my 8 years of Reddit. It's honestly both amazing and terrifying how good the US' PR is, that they've managed to convince the general populace in the West that the closest the world has been to a war between the US and the USSR was completely and solely the Soviet's fault, and not the direct result of the US placing nukes in Italy and Turkey that could reach Moscow.