Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Correct Answer :
A. Nikita Khrushchev
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Germany
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