... irritated the Americans. The Americans tried to push Batista back into power but it didn't work, so the Americans stopped buying Cuba's sugar, this was bad news for Cuba because America was its main buyer. That is when Khrushchev came in with his "offer", Russia would buy Cuba's sugar, but Cuba's price to pay was working with Russia in political affairs and basing the missiles on Cuban mainland for the embarrassment of America. America found out about this, and quickly came back by making a "quarantine zone". This means around Cuba there was a massive circumference where American ships waited for Russian merchant ships. If the Russian merchant ships tried to enter this "quarantine zone" they would be sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Khrushchev had to turn the ships back. This humiliated and embarrassed Soviet Russia. This was a massive flaw for Russia. It was a very important ...

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