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He went against military orders, a decision that might have saved millions of lives

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/...-petrov-soviet-union


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And Colonel Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky of the GRU.

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Major General Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov of the KGB, too.





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Don't forget Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet navy officer, who was in a nuclear submarine near Cuba in October 1962 and refused to order the firing of a Nuclear torpedo at a US warship.


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