Recent comments in /f/OldSchoolCool

twwain t1_jdbbr4d wrote

Reply to My brother in 1995 by [deleted]

I was rocking similar in my late teens around about that time here in Oz. Funnily enough it was from Europe, from my uncle, where it was all the rage.

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metooeither t1_jd9oejq wrote

Reply to Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. by AdAway2224

Dude that is weird.

Ever since an arrest warrant was issued for Putin, there has been a distinct uptick in 'aren't Russians bad ass heros?' posts.

Every fucking day. The bad ass staring down Himmler (if that's what he was actually doing. I doubt concentration camps let captured soldiers keep their jaunty lil military hats)

Knock it off, keep that shit on Twitter where it's welcome.

A commenter on the probably staged Himmler post pointed that out and yeah. Now I can't unsee this trend on Russian karma farming.

It's like when a kkkop does something egregious, and whadd'ya know! A different kkkop saved a dog from an icy lake! Or some shit.

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Affectionate_Reply78 t1_jd96ppn wrote

Reply to comment by Benu5 in Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. by AdAway2224

Didn’t know the part about the Russian officers wanting to use nukes. They would have gotten along well with US General LeMay who apparently wanted to escalate to nuclear weapons in this crisis as well.

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rockrnger t1_jd91u2w wrote

Reply to comment by Foreverbanevading in Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. by AdAway2224

Yeah, they were installing 40 of them of which 5 were operational when they started removing them.

The soviets could build slbms but none of them were operational during crisis. I mean, which subs do you think were operating?

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Foreverbanevading t1_jd8w8ka wrote

Reply to comment by rockrnger in Vasili Arkhipov (1960's). During the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. by AdAway2224

Nonsense. The USSR had sub-launched ballistic missiles by 1950. They put 40 MRBMs in Cuba in 1962 in response to U.S. placement of Jupiter missiles in Turkey, all of them nuclear capable and many on mobile launchers. Stop this nonsense.

I’m starting to think this is disingenuous.

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