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Question: What color was the Soviet "nuclear football" in 1982? Surprising answer: Bright red? I mean, I've assume that's what that is, because otherwise a guy was following Andropov around at Brezhnev's funeral with a really weird handbag.pic.twitter.com/L4NUV3Gnsq
(Also, isn't it kind of amazing that we live in a world where you can find a reference to Brezhnev's funeral and literally 5 sec later have an HD copy of it streaming? Imagine how much work tracking down that footage would have been 15 years ago. And I looked it up on a whim!)
I don't know. I have my doubts. Not that I have any information about that red thing, but this arrangement - a person following the leader with a football - just doesn't seem right. Too American. I don't think Soviet system worked like that.
The Soviet ‘football’ did not come on line until 1985, I don’t think it existed in 1982. Gorbachev was the first.
So it IS an emergency snack satchel filled with sandwiches and not a RISOP decision book a sheaf of emergency orders to issue, and a list of shelters to relocate to!pic.twitter.com/Gz2okBuY8S
The Handbag of Emergency Snacks.
The Cheget (code for late USSR/Russian Federation) nuclear football was not in active service until Yuri Andropov administration. I have doubts about the red briefcase serving it. Putin's Cheget is black (back L). It was reportedly activated during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident …pic.twitter.com/TikINO1D7v
Better photo from around the same time:pic.twitter.com/EN3gk7EyuK
Very interesting. I have seen Yeltsin's football. But it looked very different than this.
Have you looked at the other funerals? Their where plenty of them in the early 80s
Maybe it's an Official Use Only edition Stolichnaya gift box.
neat pickup!
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