Commie Comrade Cats save the day!

[Alex Fraser]

Quote from the book "Challenge to Apollo"

"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 cats 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."

Apparently a true story.....


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