The USSR putting missiles in Cuba was Khrushchev’s plan to test the young American President Kennedy. It was all a bluff and the USSR never considered actually going to war over them.

The ONLY time the USSR ever considered the possible use of nuclear missiles was against China during their border disputes.

The USSR never had the amount of influence with the Arab countries that the US thought they had.

(Book – Breaking with Moscow – Arkady N. Shevchenko – the highest ranking Soviet official to defect, Under Secretary General of the United Nations)