My understanding of the explanation for Russia’s ability to shoot down U2 spy planes is that the development of their anti-aircraft missiles finally reached a point where their missiles could ascend to a high enough altitude. Before that, the U2 spy planes were simply out of their reach. I believe that due to the fact that this happened while LHO was in Russia is just another one of those “strange” coincidences that happened. I ask: what could LHO have possibly told them about the U2 that would have enabled their missiles to reach higher altitudes. I don’t believe LHO’s presence in Russia had anything at all to do with that development.
To try to answer your question, it appears to me that LHO was still extremely angry about his court martial and incarceration in the USMC. I believe that he therefore considered the U.S. to be his “enemy.” Some of the language in his letters to his brother Robert is evidence of this. I believe that LHO eventually realized, after spending some time in Russia, that it was not the utopia that he had envisioned before he went there. When he returned to the U.S. it appears to me that his hopes for a “utopian existence” turned towards Cuba.
JFK’s inaugural speech contained the following quote:
”And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Sadly, LHO appears to me to have believed the opposite of what JFK was saying. And even sadder, it appears to me that LHO was eager to use violence to try to change a system that he felt was “rigged against him.” I believe that LHO’s disillusionment was due in large part to a lack of proper upbringing.
Parents have a huge responsibility to teach their children how to prosper not only physically but mentally, spiritually, and financially. I believe that the JFK assassination is an extreme example of what can happen when parents fail in their responsibilities.
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Thanks Charles,
Given his anger, His reported lifelong need to be a notable person of importance, in starting a brand new life in USSR do you find it more plausible that LHO either hoped to use his military security clearance as a card to play in impressing & gaining prominence with his new communist comrades , or he just decided to never mention a word of it.
I find it hard given what we know about his personality that he had no hopes of parlaying his military intelligence experience into a position of some importance in the communist party ?
Being advised from his new leaders that
" we already know all that , now got to work in the factory " would have been a very bitter pill for him to swallow given his fantasy of having his own office at the Kremlin.
Don't you think it possible that having pinned his grandiose hopes of becoming a brand new person of political importance in the communist Party thru his military experience, but then being rejected and told to go work in a factory this could be a source of his disillusionment with USSR and be the source of his returning to home.
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