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Old 8th December 2009 | 18:20
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I'm sure the Russians don't regard where their missiles were targetted in 1970s as particularly relevant anymore either.
Had a fascinating encounter that this reminded me of.

After the Berlin Wall et al, I was sat in a bar at a base in Bedfordshire chatting to some Russian and East European chaps. The conversation inevitably got round to what did you do in the (Cold) War chaps.

A russian colonel said he was the commander of a nuclear missile site at ********. I said "Hmmmm you could well have been one of my targets".

He asked "Where were you then?"

My reply was "Bruggen", which brought forth the response "Aaaaah, I know you were one of mine!!"
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