How did the Soviets react to the assassination of JFK?

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How did the Soviets react to the assassination of JFK?

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  1. ThreeArchLarch Avatar

    Pinning. (I never check my bookmarks.)

  2. pleddyd Avatar

    Firstly, they checked and confirmed that it wasn’t their job

  3. cookie123445677 Avatar

    Well the Palestinians killed his brother.

  4. Nickppapagiorgio Avatar

    The US went from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 2 within 45 minutes of the Kennedy assasination, which meant 90% of the nuclear capable bombers were airborne and nuclear armed. Khrushchev chose not to respond to this with any mobilization of Warsaw Pact forces for fear of escalating a tense situation. The US went back to DEFCON 5 a few days later.

  5. Persimmon-Mission Avatar

    I’d imagine they were absolutely terrified they’d be blamed

  6. AmorinIsAmor Avatar

    They first scrambled to see if they hadnt started nuclear war.

    After they made sure they didnt, they called the usa and told them it wasnt them.

  7. MagnificentBastard-1 Avatar

    Surprised Pikachu Face as I recall. Oh sorry, thought this was r/nostupidanswers 😔

  8. fredditm0d5 Avatar

    “Oh, man! We are going to catch so much heat for this!”

    (I believe it as the Mafia working with CIA and cops on the payroll).

  9. Top_Row_5116 Avatar

    They were frantic and terrified about a possible war. And when they realized Oswald was recently living in the Soviet Union, they got even more freaked out. They US did research on Oswald in the Soviet Union and learned his actions had nothing to do with the government. And the Soviets just sent their condolences to the USA and Kennedy family and moved on.

  10. Mad_Nihilistic_Ghost Avatar

    I’m sure they were shitting bricks initially, worried that an agent went rough and started a nuclear war

  11. SpicyButterBoy Avatar

    “The CIA did WHAT, comrade!?”

  12. Robcobes Avatar

    History Matters made an episode on that matter
    https://youtu.be/VFEZiFosi8I?si=2WJuy8SByUSTOjQJ

  13. Fine_Negotiation4254 Avatar

    They patted each other on the back for a successful mission

  14. stuthaman Avatar

    I watched something late last year where they said JFK was due to fly out to Moscow that very afternoon/ evening he was assassinated to have peace discussions with  Khrushchev. The theory was that powers in the US didn’t want to talks to happen but JFK who would do his own thing was going ahead.

  15. Ma_Bowls Avatar

    You’ll be better off asking r/askhistory or r/askhistorians

  16. userlivewire Avatar

    They were terrified that the KGB had succeeded with a mission they didn’t know about.

  17. MeasurementTall8677 Avatar

    With some panic, but they were always in touch with the CIA.
    The main point of contact was James Angelton, they had obviously been tracking Oswald for a while & as recently released records indicate they had been opening his mail since his return from Russia

    Evidently the Russians thought he was a bit of a fantisist when he was in Russia & they wrote him off as a nut job at the Russian embassy in Mexico city when he was trying to return via Cuba.

    This is one everyone obviously has an opinion on, I don’t know who or how many people shot JFK, but you can be sure a lot of the withheld documents were to avoud embarrassment to the agencies & politicians the same as every thing else they hang onto for 30 years.

    Talking of which what happened to the imminent release of the Epstein files?

    National security concerns ?

    A pedo on a private island with young girls & rich people ?