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'I was just doing my job': Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77
RT (a Russian site) ^
| 17 Sep, 2017
Posted on 09/17/2017 4:00:31 PM PDT by McGruff
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We're lucky to be alive. Them too.
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:00:31 PM PDT
by
McGruff
To: McGruff
Thank you, Mr. Petrov.
May you be with God.
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:04:55 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: McGruff
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:13:14 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: McGruff
Assuming that the tale he tells is true one could argue that he took a very smart..and courageous...course of action.In fact if his tale is true then it could be argued the he helped prevent a very,*very* ugly chain of events from occurring.
He was smart to understand that if we were gonna attack...deliberately attack....it would *not* have been just one missile.
To: Gay State Conservative
I got chills reading this story and thinking about it.
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:18:15 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: McGruff
assuming the truth of this account, and it has been repeated several times over the years,...
I am SO GLAD the Russian navy had him there,
instead of an Affirmative Action recruit
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:18:43 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: McGruff
If the story Petrov tells is true, then it is quite alarming that one man - and not some group of men - had the power to decide the fate of the world.
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:20:09 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: Pontiac
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:23:35 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(2017 or 1984?)
To: McGruff
I pray Mr. Petrov knew the Savior of the Universe - Jesus Christ.
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posted on
09/17/2017 4:39:16 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
To: McGruff
We should all thank God that the Russians don't "do" affirmative action!
To: Leaning Right
Another infamous incident was when the US and Norway sent up a science payload rocket from a Norwegian rocket range.
The people in the Russian missile warning trenches weren't forwarded a copy of the Notice-of-Rocket-Launch-So-You-Don't-Nuke-Us-By-Mistake memo, and the alert went up the chain.
Evidently, the people in the Defense Ministry weren't aware of the launch either, so they went on full alert, ready to launch.
To: McGruff
I remember an earlier near terrifying incident back in 1962.
We had just been through the Cuban Missile Crisis and were on edge when on Dec 24, there was a sudden break in programing to warn us that an unidentified object had just been detected by the “DEW LINE” coming south across the North Pole toward the USA!
Pucker factor suddenly kicks in!
Then they showed a silly cheap photo of Santa Claus and his sleigh with cotton ball clouds floating by.
I wasn’t sure what to think. Be PO’d for the scare, or be relieved that it wasn’t Russian Missiles..
To: McGruff
Thank you Stanislav Petrov. You were just where God wanted you to be.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Let us commend ourselves, and one another, and our whole life, unto Christ Our God.")
To: All
Stanislav Petrov - God speed.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:09:48 PM PDT
by
TheTimeOfMan
(A time for peace and a time for war)
To: McGruff
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:11:41 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
To: McGruff
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:25:11 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: McGruff
To: McGruff
Would you like to play a game?
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:30:12 PM PDT
by
Mean Daddy
(Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
To: Mean Daddy
Strange game. Only winning move is not to play.
So true.
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posted on
09/17/2017 5:31:54 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(2017 or 1984?)
To: Gay State Conservative
This event has been in the public record for many years, and apparently substantiated by post Cold War release of information from the defunct USSR.
Yes, it appears Petrov was a genuine world hero.
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