People talk about the cuban missiles as "the day the world almost ended", but few people even remember the missiles in Turkey. I don't want to debate if the US or the USSR had the right to place misiles in Turkey or Cuba respectively, BUT I wanna know why didn't the Soviet Union just say in public "US has missiles in Cuba. When Pres. Kennedy takes them away we will take ours from Cuba"? Why werent the missiles i Turkey as mediatic as the missiles in Cuba?