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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MiraculousMM@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

soviet-heart ussr-cry

edit: one of these heroes is Stanislav Petrov, idk who the other one is unfortunately

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I feel the same way about the first man and woman in space, but lord forbid we make statues of actual heroes instead of checks notes slavers and genociders

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

I think the couple that leaked microfilm detailing how to make a nuke to the USSR are heroes of the globe.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

Their cult of personality.

Our great men of history.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not a statue but I did manange to snag a one of these coins. It was the first in an Interkosmos series before they stopped it after the war broke out.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

That's so fucking pretty. I want one

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

ooooooooooo

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

First woman in space is kinda bad tho

[–] miz@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

thought Valentina Tereshkova was okay? or did she takes some terrible positions when she got elected to the duma

She's a conservative now

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago

A lot of people talk shit on the nothing ever happens gang and forget they saved the world twice.

Lenin had a point when he said that there are decades where nothing happens; however, he took the wrong line into revisionism when he said there are weeks where decades happen.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

In at least one of these cases I think what happened is the computer showed only a single missile and the officer recognized that there wasn't any case where the Americans would launch one missile. Doctrine said to retaliate but the guy was all "nah, this is a glitch or something, if it was the real thing there'd be hundreds or thousands of missiles, not one.

[–] ObamnaSoda@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

The other might be Vasily Arkhipov during the Cuban Missle Crisis (Caribbean or October Crisis).