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cheered khrushchev wildly were left in the dark as to what went on when the central committee named leonid brezhnevrty. >> my father was shocked. his successor just went in the opposite direction, and then divorce of his policies. he was very upset. >> he had begun a new age of the soviet union, a thawing of the cold war. not complete, but the beginning of something. but things change. >> the cuban missile crisis showed that neither side could gain a military victory over the other side. so therefore, the competition had to take a different form. >> it was beginning of the very rapid changes in the relations between two countries. next period in our history would compete in the economy. >> in the end, we couldn't defeat the soviet union militarily, but we could demonstrate that we had a much better attractive society. >> the united states of america wants to see the cold war end. we want sanity and security and peace for all. and above all, president kennedy, i'm sure, would regard as his best memorial the fact that in his three years as president the world became a little safer and the way ahead b