The Crisis Years

"The crisis years" of 1960-1962 are remembered as a peak of the Cold War, an apogee of the bipolar confrontation. Many consider them even more dangerous than the Korean War, when the military forces of West and East clashed and almost slipped into a global conflict. The early 1960s were all the more frightening since the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, were engaged in a fierce nuclear arms race, and two …

…Russia. It will be recalled that in the beginning this case was introduced as an arrest of an American spy. To all appearances, the world began to play espionage again, as it had already happened during the Cold War. We will scarcely ever find out, who was the first to start this game. Apparently, today's report from Bulgaria is not the last announcement of that kind. The war in invisible front is at its height.