The superpowers of the superpowers broken to marrow

For thirteen days at the end of 1962, a world stood on hell. The book Cuban dispute 1962 by Max Hastings deals with those events. The book and the event she takes on was under consideration at Kjarval last night.

There, Stefán Einar Stefánsson spoke to Björn Bjarnason, former Minister of Justice and Deputy Editor of the Morgunbladid about the book and the Cuban dispute so-called, who shook the world at the time and is considered one of the most serious incidents that occurred during the Cold War between the Cold US and the Soviet Union.

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Club members come together

Was well attended at the event held under the brand of Spur Library.

There, Björn traced the scene related to relations and the lack of communication between the US -Soviet leaders when the latter came up that the latter superpower had a secret of thousands of nuclear weapons in Cuba, in the backyard of the United States.

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Personal refresh

Björn also recalled his experience of these events, but he was a student at the Reykjavík High School during these years. Then his father, Bjarni Benediktsson, was the Minister of Justice and therefore in the turmoil of politics in this country, which looked very much from the Cold War.

Among those who talked a lot about the Cuban dispute and the conflicts of the superpowers at this time were Matthías Johannessen, the then editor of the Morgunbladid. He was, according to Björn’s home friend Björn, and often came to the minister’s home in Háuhlíð in Reykjavik, and discussed the troll -ons that Hastings takes in his book.

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Another club event

This is the second time that club members come together, but in early May, former prime minister Geir H. Haarde met and discussed his new biography.

This June, club members, who have reached over 1000, settle over the reading of the classic book of George Orwells, 1984, which was published in 1949 and has long since established itself as one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.

You can register in the Spur Library here.