Shock of the Century

Maryland Republican state senator John Marshall Butler told the Baltimore Sun that future Sputniks should be shot down out of the skies as fast as they appear: "I would like to see our Armed Forces just say to them you put them up and we'll shoot them down. I think we'll come to that some day and it's not too far off. The best way to deflate the propaganda value of Sputnik is to knock it out of the air." - Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson

эта фраза сенатора Батлера в вольном переводе цитируется в журнале Крокодил N 36 от 30 декабря 1957 года.

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