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Did the Cuban missile crisis ended in humiliating defeat for Khrushchev and the Soviet Union?

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Soviet Union The confrontation ended on October 28, 1962, when President Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General Thant reached a public and secret agreement with Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union.

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