Monday, August 3, 2020

Sputnik Blackmail - 3 October 1957

October 3, 1957 - (on a secret telephone hotline)

Khruschchev: You being a good boy and holding back on space Travel Comrade Ike. 

Ike: I am dragging our feet as long as possible Comrade Chairman. 

Khrushchev: We still have those photos of you and those girls at the Soviet Embassy Party in London on VE Day.

Ike: You would not dare Nikita. I said I was doing all I could to delay America's entry in space. And anyway my experts assure me that the Soviet talk of progress in space is simply propaganda. 

Khrushchev: Just turn on the radio tomorrow comrade. (a burst of laughter in the Soviet telephone background. )

(telephone hang up sound)



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