The comments by Nina Khrushcheva follow a warning by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that NATO countries were engaged in a proxy war with Moscow that could escalate into a global conflict with nuclear weapons.
Lavrov invoked the Caribbean crisis, thought to be the closest the Cold War superpowers came to nuclear war, in an interview in which he said that the chance of World War Three was "very significant." He criticized the West's arming of Kyiv's forces as adding "fuel to the fire."
But Khrushcheva told BBC Radio 4's Today program that the 13-day stand-off six decades ago was a "war of words more than it was a war of actions" and that her great-grandfather was responding to the presence of U.S. missiles in Europe.
She said on Saturday that what saved the world was that whatever differences Khrushchev and Kennedy had about each other's ideology, "when the threat appeared of a potential conflict of any kind, they immediately backed off and it took 13 days to back off."
"We are closer to war issues, nuclear or any other way, because I don't see today any side, and the Russian side particularly, backing off and that's what scares me the most."
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