In this first episode of 'The Room Where It Happened', History Hit invites three experts to deconstruct the thoughts and feelings of the key players at the heart of this crucial historic moment - each taking the perspective of one of the main protagonists: Khrushchev, Kennedy and Castro.

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It's February 1945. War in Europe is still raging, but the end is in sight. Nazi Germany is surrounded by the allied armies. Hitler has sought sanctuary in his bunker under the ruins of his chancellery in Berlin never to be seen in public again. Meanwhile the war in the Pacific rumbles on. A vici...