Cuban Missile Crisis

[Boroda]

Originally posted by mydavis
anyone who really want to learn about how the russian missle crisis in cuba and in general was resolved, should read the book. "The Spy who saved the World"
About a russian colonel Oleg Penchovsky, who literally saved the world.

This man decided that the russian goverment was evil and would cause a war. passed secrets to the US and to Kennedy that the russians could not deliver a warhead accurately.  

Pen'kovskiy was a traitor, a sad example of a miserable idiot. He seriously believed that UK will send a submarine to rescue him...

In fact he's partially responsible for a situation when a world could blow up

My Grandmother told me that he was an officer's club director in a unit where Grandfather served before he was transferred to GDR. He was a specialist in vodka, girls and sauna for generals. Maybe he thought that a Soviet system (that let him make a brilliant carreer) was evil, but he worked for money and "presents".

[Boroda]

Originally posted by weaselsan
I was referring to John 9001's reply about the change on the map. He is pointing out the Fall of the Soviet Union. You are talking about the Historical Russian Empire. I thought that was Ivan the Terrible, He was the one that built a Russian Navy on par with European Navy's. We'll maybe not Great Britians but most of Europe.

What I mean is that the Empire formally disappeared, but politically, culturally, economically and ethnically it still exists.

What really surprises me is that regardless to traditional administration policy of non-interference into local affairs and administration - the bonds between the nations of the Empire are so strong. Russia and Moscow are still a center of gravity for ex-USSR, and it doesn't matter what political orientation local bosses choose.

Ivan the Terrible was the first Czar, before him the country was called "Great Principate of Moscow", and he formally called himself a leader of all Russians. About navy - it was an idea of Peter the Great to make a European-style army and navy. BTW, long time before Ivan IV or Peter I Novgorod was a Hansa trading city, so they knew how to sail and navigate.

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

Man, Red Dawn is great. Blatant models of SU-25s in the airfield attack scent though.

lol @ one taking off vertically.