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Rest In Petrov

9/21/2017

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PictureStanislav Petrov
Stanislav Petrov died in May 2017, he was 77 years old and a Russian hero in my opinion. You might not have a clue who I am writing about but you should familiarise yourself and you should be grateful to him.

Stanislav has featured on this blog before because in 1983 he saved the world from nuclear war … probably. If he hadn’t been so very sensible, I might not have made it to my 13th birthday.

You’d think that his passing might have been worthy of outpourings of public adoration or a state funeral, but instead the world only just found out that he had died … four months later. And even then only by chance because German film-maker Karl Schumacher contacted Petrov’s family to wish him a happy birthday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41314948

The media is always full of over indulgent tribute stuff when some TV type or popstar snuffs it, but when a man who saved the world died, there was nothing, or thereabouts anyway.

Maybe he just wanted to go quietly. Petrov didn’t think he was a hero, he just thought he was in the right place at the right time to make the right decision.

As far as I am concerned though, his passing deserved more attention.

During the cold War, Stanislav preserved the peace and that made me reflect that the phrase oft used in connection with the dearly departed ought to be updated to “Rest In Petrov”, at least for a while anyway.
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