How One Soldier Saved Humanity From Extinction 

Hare Krishna.

Absolutely.

He needs to appear in history books in schools.

@@KexiGina exactly! I learned about the Cold War in school but mostly from the European perspective as I'm from the UK. We did cover the Cuban missile crisis but only in a very oversimplified way. Most attention was drawn towards Germany and eastern Europe for us. I'm so grateful for RU-vid

I doubt every human on earth would die, but most yes. The radius of a nuke at that time was only a few miles.

there needs to be a world wide holiday or recognition of some kind for this guy...

@@sophiedarnell467 indeed

Salute

What about Stanislav Petrov?

the world owes he and his family.

Like Biden... or Trump :/

Or almost any other politician

@@Terr_O_Rist honestly politicians would bring the end of humanity with their greed or ego. If we have new officials in politics, maybe the new officials will be better than current officials but who knows in the future.

In the 70s I think it was an aircraft carrying nukes was flying over north Carolina and for some reason the nukes fell from the plane. One was fortunately a dud, the other was literally one trigger away from detenation basically destroying all of central north Carolina. Literally all other fail safes except one triggered

@@estebannunez6902 You have a very naive and limited understanding of this situation the "new officials" will once more be bought and paid for and absolutely nothing will change

Didnt u die thousands of years ago?

But you were born in 0AD bro, fym

He died 16 days before I was born. I was very close to being alive at the same time as him.

I was 10. I remember the news of his death. Dude should have a day on the calendar at least. None of us would be alive if he hadn't steeled himself and remained calm.

bro you were born in 0 my guy.

People don't even know what gender they are lol we aren't going to make it far anyways..

Jesus was the most important human now he is God

Not true. Some people would survive a nuclear war

@@SilentForrest still, billions of people owe him their lives

idemo dalje::

Yeah growing up my history book ended with 9/11. We didn’t even get close to 9/11 let alone anything after WW2. It wasn’t “history” enough I guess?

It was all fault of Kruschev and his bullshiterry, that's why finally party replaced him with Brezhniev

I had to read a book and do lots of quizzes, testing and analyzing over it. However, to give me some slack, it was senior year of high school so it was already terrible ash with everything going on in and outside of school. I knew it was bad, just from reading...but I don't think ii knew just how vital this guy's decision making was for the rest of us that live today...Insane...If we as humanity look up to anyone, it should be him....even if he may be a communist, the way he thought his way in some what of a calm, rational manor, is outstanding to me...I couldn't ever do that, let alone be in a war situation in general....I can hardly defend for myself...

The Cold War should be taught because Cold War 2.0 just started. I’m not too sure if Putin has enough patience NOT to fire nukes during this Russia/Ukraine War.

One of the reasons. The Americans didn’t want to glorify an enemy and right now Russia isn’t looking to good on the international level

That is honestly kind of a loaded question in the end. There is the international optics issue. But even more of a issue is generally despite what movies show soldiers who go against protocol or orders are not lauded as hero's. Even when their results are amazing or truly heroic they are generally swept under the rug. Top this with the fact that the people at the top tend to in situations like this be the ones praised even if they were not helping or actively making things worse and well the chances of him being well known were miniscule. This man is evidence that the greatest honors are worn on the soul and not the suit.

Cold war is the reason

He’s not sadly look at the end

@@The_hampster I saw it sadly but still the legend and hero of the world

Just like any other pretend story - but this isn't pretend, kiddo. This happened. If this man didn't do what he did, the world wouldn't exist.

Moral of the story: Think logically. Being brave and never giving up is what the other officers were trying to do. They were willing to sacrifice themselves to get those missiles to Cuba.

Bro 0.002% of people is still over 1.5 million people

@@ARCPolus and the population of the earth is over 3.2 billion. so that 1.5, seems pitifully low.

@@KnightShadowsong Bro did you just say that the Earth's population is 3.2 billion 💀 no shot 💀💀

@@ARCPolus I said upwards of 3.2 billion. That was a low ball. At best.

@@KnightShadowsong I thought that world population was common knowledge, apparently not

If I was put in a position where myself and another person had to turn 2 keys so that a nuclear weapon was launched and the decision to launch the weapon was ordered by people who have no relation to me I would disobey the order.

god has nothing to do with it.

@@raidermaxx2324 SHUSH!!!

@@davidenatoh359 LOL

now people get upset if you misgender them....

@@raidermaxx2324 when someone says god bless that guy its a way of saying thank you,if you cant understand that its best to keep your mouth shut

It's called Crimson Tide

When did you tell us this

@@BigBrotherBrody do you watch mcu movies?

Irl Metro

The USA had around 23,000 nukes in 1980, not 30,000 +

@@ARCPolus still a lot

Aren't sailors just wet soldiers? ( Joke)

@@DadOfCall 🤨😏🥴

@@DadOfCall 😏😏😏

There Is A Movie Called Crimson Tide!

That happened about 4 times, one was because bears coming over a fence but nothing can do to save this time thanks everyone who voted for Biden were all gonna die

Well, this good man is a Soviet, never expect that he will be recognized as a Nobel Peace awardee because it is an insult to the Americans. But the world recognizes his heroisn.

Well it only takes one bad man in charge...

@@andreidragomir5360 Donald Trump

@@paulcowlishaw Putin

Biden.

Actually a lot of the best people I ever knew were Russians. There are always some soldiers or generals in every army becoming absolutely psychotic and brutal because of the war or some previous happening(s). But in the end, it all gets blamed on the government of that country, and even worse, the people of this country. That's what happened in Namibia, and that's probably what happened in Butscha. And in the USA, Germans were discriminated against, forced to lay down their culture, and even killed, because some german officers committed war crimes in Belgium at the time. And when the USA entered the war, teh situation became even worse, and it didn't stop until the 50s or 60s. That's actually also the reason why so many German Americans migrated to Germany before or during ww2 to serve in the Waffen-SS. Hatred, especially on the ones who have the least fault for certain happenings, only makes things worse. And that's what is happening to some Russians in Germany right now.

Give the poor kids some freedom

Bruh

Bruh, An Adult...

Eh, nice choice!

lol?

u love dat

I think the soviets fought the U.K Germany and america making the cold war soviets did not get any land taken from the others (I think) and this shows how strong the Soviet union was (just sayin)

What's a search phrase I can use to see if there's any more info about this?

@@jminkvihubyb have you ever heard of these books called Bathroom Reader Books? They have trivia and short articles. I read about there. Based on quick searches I think ithe sub was called k-129. Wikipedia makes it sound like a conspiracy theory but that doesn't mean much