The Lonely Death of the Man Who Saved the World

Lt. Colonel Stanislaw Petrow (Wikimedia Commons / (CC BY-SA 4.0) Edited by DMZ Die Mittelländsiche Zeitung) DMZ – HISTORICAL ¦ By Leo Ensel Three years ago, the Russian lieutenant colonel Stanislaw Petrow died unnoticed by the public. In the fall of 1983, the world was facing a nuclear war as a result of a false alarm in the Soviet missile defence center. However, the officer on duty Stanislaw Petrow kept his nerves. On 19.05.2017 he died alone …