This Guy Legitimately SAVED THE WORLD And Somehow He's Not A Household Name

That man is Stanislav Petrov. A Soviet nobody that the world has forgotten or maybe never known and that is absurd. If we had a bizarro George Bailey situation where Stanislav had never been born none of you would even be alive to read this blog because this would've happened

Cal Ripken won the MVP and the World Series that year. He should've dedicated both awards to Stanislav because without him he would've died from the radiation poisoning after Soviet war heads destroyed the entire East Coast of the United States. That is what we are dealing with. I don't think people understand. If they did understand everyone would know who this fucking Stanislav guy is. The right guy at the right place at the right time. A guy who looked at all the data, all the read outs, and all the evidence saying that the USSR was under attack and he said "man, fuck computers. I don't trust them" and he was right. A lesser man who trusted computers and didn't have ice water in his veins would've just blindly followed a machine into a nuclear holocaust. It's a fucking wild story that absolutely should be common knowledge. We've been praising Jesus's ass for 2000 years and all he did was metaphorically save the world. Stanislav Petrov actually and physically saved us. Save you. Saved me. Saved your mom. How are you not going to celebrate a guy who saved everyone's mom? Stanislav should have a day celebrated across the world. We get 9/26 off from work every day every year just to thank Stan the man for saving humanity as we know it. We broke down his entire story on dogwalk today. You can listen to that full episode here