>Real life can sometimes be more cartoonish than fiction, unfortunately. During the Cold War and the ensuing Cuban Missle Crisis[0][1], those relatively few of

>Real life can sometimes be more cartoonish than fiction, unfortunately. During the Cold War and the ensuing Cuban Missle Crisis[0][1], those relatively few of us remaining who were in Florida (a much less populous state) at the time, preparing more seriously than most other states to "survive" nuclear attack, might remember why they called him Boris Badenov[2][3]. Yes he was bad enough, but never entirely competent. Americans had no trouble understanding that was a very unrealistic cartoonish exaggeration. [0]https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis >October 1962 [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis >Arguably, the most dangerous moment in the crisis was not recognized until the Cuban Missile Crisis Havana conference, in October 2002. . . [only after 40 years had passed] Unknown to the US, it [Soviet submarine] was armed with a 15-kiloton nuclear torpedo. Running out of air, the Soviet submarine was surrounded by American warships and desperately needed to surface. An argument broke out among three officers aboard [the sub] . . . including submarine captain Valentin Savitsky, political officer Ivan Semyonovich Maslennikov, and Deputy brigade commander Captain 2nd rank (US Navy Commander rank equivalent) Vasily Arkhipov. An exhausted Savitsky became furious and ordered that the nuclear torpedo on board be made combat ready. . . Thomas Blanton, director of the [US] National Security Archive, said, "A guy called Vasily Arkhipov saved the world." [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Badenov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Badenov [3]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Boris+Badenov&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Boris+Badenov&iax=images&ia=images