Soviet Officer Wins Award for Preventing Nuclear War

RIA NOVOSTI ^ | 11-16-12 | staff

[bigbob]

Thank you Mr. Petrov for using your head.

Here's the site he did it from: http://goo.gl/maps/bpWiB

[Psalm 144]

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Little shiver down my spine on this one.

[Paladin2]

What would have happened if he were a Jihadi?

[yldstrk]

Ruskies will probably kill him now

[DoughtyOne]

That was a bone-cruncher of a decision. I’m glad he got it right.

If that’s your focus, I guess you’re very much in tune with these types of matters, and perhaps it wasn’t all that hard of a decision.

I do think he’s deserving of this award. Kudos to him.

[Catmom]

Lately, I’ve been wishing I was back in the days of the Cold War.

Scary time, but we were on the side of the good guys and we won.

[Gay State Conservative]

I guess there were at *some* Ruskies who had *some* sense of decency as well as a sense that humanity was more important than an order from some psychopathic fossil in Moscow.It sounds as if I,and all other civilized people on earth,might actually owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

[GeronL]

?? Was this the same time period as the KAL shootdown?

[redfreedom]

One thing that can definitely not be said of the Russians is that they are stupid. Barbaric, yes, but not stupid.

[Vince Ferrer]

There was more than one incident which almost caused a war during that period. The soviets were an adversary, but they were rational. With our current muslim adversaries, we are not dealing with a rational actor.

[billorites]

Dimitry...one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well,
he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing...

[Psalm 144]

“Scary time, but we were on the side of the good guys and we won.”

And the bad guys were higher quality too. Spiffy uniforms and good choral music, as opposed to hair stubble and the smell of armpit and goat.

[Psalm 144]

Agreed.

[Psalm 144]

?? Was this the same time period as the KAL shootdown?

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Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

[GeronL]

Conservapedia has a much improved account of this event. IMO.

[GeronL]

SO this was a very tense time! This guy might really have saved the world.

[Sherman Logan]

Good for him.

But frankly it is pretty obvious that if anybody is going to launch a first strike, they’re going to do so with everything they have available.

Unless they are really, really stupid.

[NonValueAdded]

If so, they hide it well. Got a link?

[DuncanWaring]

At least during the Cold War, the bad guys had no more interest in dying than we did.

[Jyotishi]

> Soviet Officer Wins Award for Preventing Nuclear War

Boyrock Hyssain Ohaha wants that award now.