Comment by LargoLasskhyfv

You know what's even more interesting? Putting all that stuff there was just a reaction by the USSR to the USA putting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter into Turkey and Italy.

Compare the distances from there to the former borders of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact on a globe and see why.

https://thecubanrevolution.com/news/why-did-us-put-jupiter-m...

Tit for tat, so to speak.