After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union never got such an advantageous chance to defend or expand their power. Instead, what they got was an even greater lack of trust from the United States. This led to the USSR's power draining, especially during the Reagan era with the collapse of the berlin wall. Eventually, the Soviet Union did dissolve, and communism in Europe and Asia was no more.

Another thing that happened after the Cuban Missile Crisis was the introduction of the Moscow-Washington hotline. Like name entails, it was a form of communication that ran from Washington, DC in the US to Moscow in Russia. Contrary to common belief the hotline was not a red phone. In fact, the hotline was not a phone at all. It was originally a teletype which is kind of a cross between a typewriter and a fax machine. Recently though, it was upgraded to work over encrypted email instead.