It’s some time since I took these pics of one of the smaller displays in Kelvingrove, set in a small, quiet, side room.
It’s one of a number of similar displays which seem to have been similarly placed off the main galleries, allowing them to be viewed with little disturbance.
I’ve mentioned some of the others in previous posts, but never really found the right mood to include this one.
Sadly, coming across it while looking at news of the various atrocities and war crimes carried out in Ukraine under the will of Vladimir Putin provided an unfortunately all too ideal opportunity.
Scotland ignored and passed over as Putin’s propaganda machine published claimed flight times for his ICBMs after news of additional support for Ukraine in light of his war crimes, genocide etc.
Who cares if it takes one of them 202 seconds to reach London?
We want to know the flight time to Faslane!
I miss the good old days of the Cold War, when we had leaked maps prepared by ‘experts’ (seems we had them, even in the days BEFORE the Internet) in the Soviet Union, showing targets in Scotland, which military bases that had been abandoned, and lain derelict for years.
Then again, wasn’t the Soviet way to keep your boss happy to provide him with quantity information, rather than quality information?
A medal a week for the intelligence officer that reported 50 potential targets a week, even if he made them up, while the poor sod that spent all his time checking the target he reported actually existed… was posted to a nice comfy gulag in Siberia.
It’s things like that which get him memorialised by statues like this, erected outside the Russian embassy in Prague (apparently).
Pooping Putin outside Russian Embassy in Prague
More seriously.
Kyiv Exhumations
Footnote
It’s really rather depressing to consider that we survived the years when orange moron Donald J Trump managed to take over America, and there is little doubt (in my mind at least) that the staff miraculously managed to prevent him from launching at least one nuclear weapon.
Now we’re seeing another sad old man who, according to some, is both mentally and physically failing, yet has managed to maintain his grip on a massive nation – complete with nuclear weapons.
I could ramble on about this, having grown up through the Cold War, and I’m sure was not alone when there was an announcement that it was over.
Over? No.
Just changed into something even more dangerous, without the open secrecy which that period enjoyed.
Now we really don’t know who has their finger on the nuclear button, and even less about what checks and balances there are to provide oversight.
Perhaps even more worrying it that all the scare stories which have emerged over the years seem to relate to ordinary Russians who took the decision to prevent nuclear strikes being carried out when Soviet protocols, their superiors, or even automated systems, demanded them.
Given the sort of response an actual Russian nuclear strike ordered by a deranged Putin might trigger, it would be nice to be living in a world where MAD (mutually assured destruction) is still a talking point, rather than one where someone who is beginning to be considered a madman has control of nuclear weapons, and is using them as threats.
A first strike by Putin could see this move from a deterrent (which he is apparently ignoring) to a live firing event.
This video was published just before Putin ordered his ‘Special Operation, or invasion, of Ukraine, and commenced on his policy of war crimes and genocide.
Secret Scotland 