Martin Antonenko
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A Bizarre "Joke"...!
Exactly 37 years ago today, one of the most dangerous "jokes" in world history happened.
On August 11, 1984, US President Ronald Reagan is sitting in his country house in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles, California...
... preparing to give his weekly radio address to the nation.
And as always, the former actor...
... practices in advance by saying a few sentences to "convince himself".
He says the following:
Here is the original recording ...:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/ReaganBeginsBombingRussia.ogg
Reagan's staff knows their boss' ability to repeatedly derail bizarrely "off the record". In similar cases before, other insecurities on the part of the president had been successfully suppressed.
In this case, however, shocked sound engineers ensured that the case came to the public - although Reagan's chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein (left in the picture) ...
... had categorically "ordered" them to keep the incident secret. Reagan's "joke" got around in no time and reached the media, then caused a huge stir and led to the question of whether the president is still in control of his seven senses...:
Only the so threatened Soviets reacted calmly:
In a brief statement by the state news agency "TASS" only a dry communique appeared that Reagan's "joke" was described as an "unprecedentedly hostile and dangerous for the cause of peace failure".
TASS continues: "This type of behavior is incompatible with the great responsibility that the leaders of the nuclear states bear for the fate of their own people and of humanity."
The Soviets weren't quite as cool as they pretended to be.
Little is known that the 1st Soviet Far East Army under Marshal Wladimir Leonidowitsch Goworow ...
... in their locations between Khabarowsk and Wladiwostok, which included the 1st Guard Army, 5th Army, 25th Army and 35th Army, the 10th Mechanized Corps, the 9th Air Army and strategic missile troops, for 30 minutes in full combat alert was displaced.
The "full combat alert" of the Red Army corresponded to the US readiness level "Defcon 1" and was the last readiness level before firing..
Exactly 37 years ago today, one of the most dangerous "jokes" in world history happened.
On August 11, 1984, US President Ronald Reagan is sitting in his country house in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles, California...
... preparing to give his weekly radio address to the nation.
And as always, the former actor...
... practices in advance by saying a few sentences to "convince himself".
He says the following:
Here is the original recording ...:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/ReaganBeginsBombingRussia.ogg
Reagan's staff knows their boss' ability to repeatedly derail bizarrely "off the record". In similar cases before, other insecurities on the part of the president had been successfully suppressed.
In this case, however, shocked sound engineers ensured that the case came to the public - although Reagan's chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein (left in the picture) ...
... had categorically "ordered" them to keep the incident secret. Reagan's "joke" got around in no time and reached the media, then caused a huge stir and led to the question of whether the president is still in control of his seven senses...:
Only the so threatened Soviets reacted calmly:
In a brief statement by the state news agency "TASS" only a dry communique appeared that Reagan's "joke" was described as an "unprecedentedly hostile and dangerous for the cause of peace failure".
TASS continues: "This type of behavior is incompatible with the great responsibility that the leaders of the nuclear states bear for the fate of their own people and of humanity."
The Soviets weren't quite as cool as they pretended to be.
Little is known that the 1st Soviet Far East Army under Marshal Wladimir Leonidowitsch Goworow ...
... in their locations between Khabarowsk and Wladiwostok, which included the 1st Guard Army, 5th Army, 25th Army and 35th Army, the 10th Mechanized Corps, the 9th Air Army and strategic missile troops, for 30 minutes in full combat alert was displaced.
The "full combat alert" of the Red Army corresponded to the US readiness level "Defcon 1" and was the last readiness level before firing..
