{"id":4465,"date":"2018-01-05T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2018-01-05T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:17:57","slug":"vasili-arkhipov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Vasili Arkhipov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2lfvs\" data-offset-key=\"5b80o-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5b80o-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5b80o-0-0\">In the amazing doc about pianist Slatioslav Richter, he spoke lots about Russian musicians who I knew nothing about. One that sounded curious was Maria Yudina who also was Stalin&#8217;s favourite pianist, whatever that means. Richter told a story about her playing Chopin at a concert during WW2 and she played it very tough and staccato. He asked her after why she played Chopin so weird and she answered him defiantly &#8220;because we are at war&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2lfvs\" data-offset-key=\"cb04n-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cb04n-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cb04n-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2lfvs\" data-offset-key=\"r8e5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"r8e5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"r8e5-0-0\">During the Cuban missile crisis, there was a Russian submarine near America armed with a nuclear torpedos. Protocol required 3 officers to agree before launching an attack. The only reason nuclear war wasn&#8217;t initiated in 1962 was because of Vasili Arkhipov&#8217;s decision, he voted against it, the other two voted to proceed. He&#8217;s dead now but in a couple weeks it is his 92cnd birthday. It is a world that more likely names substantial places after the Putins or Trumps rather than honour and be grateful for the Arkhipovs.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the amazing doc about pianist Slatioslav Richter, he spoke lots about Russian musicians who I knew nothing about. One that sounded curious was Maria Yudina who also was Stalin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4465\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}