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Hopefully the soldier is like Stanislav Petrov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov


The world should have a national holiday in his honor. Possibly more deserved then any other human in history.


A few people have observed it informally:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stanislav+petrov+day


I'm going to start celebrating these now. Holidays in honour of the two Russian officers who refused to start WW3





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