How did the Cuban Missile Crisis affect Nikita Khrushchev’s political standing within the Soviet Union?
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Correct answer: His authority was weakened, leading to his 1964 ouster
The Soviet military and hardliners viewed the withdrawal of missiles as a humiliating defeat. This perception of weakness was a major factor in the internal coup that replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.
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