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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5">Quote from the book "Challenge
to Apollo"</font><br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="5">"In January 1953, during
a sudden warm period in the weather, an area in the central
USSR was flooded by melting ice. A missile depot in that
region, storing tens of R-I missiles for battle, was luckily
saved from the flood because of the careful construction of
storage buildings. Unfortunately, the water entered thousands
of subterranean mice burrows, and finding no other place to
take shelter, the mice flocked to the missile depot by the
thousands. As it happened, the mice found the insulation
wiring of the numerous missiles to be quite edible. When news
of the incident found its way to the higher leadership, the
artillery command was furious and sent Maj. General Lev M.
Gaydukov to the depot, where he relieved the local commander,
a General Volkodav, on the spot for "criminal negligence."
Soon, hundreds of <font color="#ff0000">cats</font> and
repair-men were rushed to the depot to take care of the
problem. When Korolev heard about the entire episode, he
reportedly laughed himself to tears, much to the alarm of
General Volkodav, who accused Korolev of building a missile
with edible insulation."<br>
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Apparently a true story.....<br>
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