Yeah, I read about that a few days ago. That’s the most Russian way to go out ever. I’d like to think he had a flask of vodka he drank as he heard the jets approach.
I’m impressed. I grumble about Russians now and then, but there’s a lot I admire about them, too.
The image of a bottle of vodka in hand is pretty good, too.
Aye
He had a pair of brass ones, no doubt about that.
To be fair, I think most people would have done a similar thing knowing the consequences. Being captured by ISIS to be systematically raped and beheaded or worse is a far worse fate. That being said, he did a good thing.
Yes, I was thinking that the call would be easier given what IS is known to do to its captives.
Still, it’s one of the more admirable ways to go, for sure.
Respect.
Take note ISIS. This is how you really get 72 virgins. Hero of the Soviet Union shit right here.
^he got 72 bottles of Vodka
Good point, although I suspect a lot of people would still have a hard time making that call and might hesitate long enough that it becomes too late. He was a badass special forces guy though, so it was probably almost second nature for him. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a movie with a similar scenario, but can’t remember what movie and if he/they were miraculously saved or not.
Tell the terrorists that since he’s been “up there” a while, there’s probably a shortage, and they won’t be getting their 72 virgins.
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Pretty much every Vietnam movie, save Tropic Thunder.
how does allah generate these 72 virgins and these fantasy islands for each of the 30k fighters and the 20k+ fighters that have been killed so far? Is there some guarantee they’re all pretty? What happens if you wanted blondes and got short hair manly woman?
72 bottles of vodka = 287 virgins
I hear with all those dudes blowing themselves up there is a real shortage of virgins and all they get these days are 72 kleenex. Bummer.
Yes it is guaranteed. The actual number of 72 virgins is not that well-established in literature.
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/images/9/9b/72-houris.jpg
Sensual Paradise
In Islam, the concept of 72 virgins (houri) refers to an aspect of Jannah (Paradise). This concept is grounded in Qur’anic text which describe a sensual Paradise where believing men are rewarded by being wed[1] to virgins with “full grown”, “swelling” or “pears-shaped” breasts.[2][3] Conversly, women will be provided with only one man, and they “will be satisfied with him”.[4]
Contemporary mainstream Islamic scholars, for example; Gibril Haddad, have commented on the erotic nature of the Qur’anic Paradise, by saying some men may need ghusl (ablution required after sexual discharge) just for hearing certain verses.[5]
Orthodox Muslim theologians such as al-Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and al-Ash’ari (died 935 CE) have all discussed the sensual pleasures found in Paradise, relating hadith that describe Paradise as a slave market where there will be “no buy and sale, but… If any man will wish to have sexual intercourse with a woman, he will do at once.”[6][7]
It is quoted by Ibn Kathir, in his Qur’anic Commentary, the Tafsir ibn Kathir,[8] and they are graphically described by Qur’anic commentator and polymath, al-Suyuti (died 1505), who, echoing a hasan hadith[9] from Ibn Majah,[10] wrote that the perpetual virgins will all “have appetizing vaginas”, and that the “penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal”.[11]
The sensual pleasures between believers and houri in Paradise are also confirmed by the two Sahih collections of hadith, namely Sahih Bukhari[12] and Sahih Muslim, where we read that they will be virgins who are so beautiful, pure and transparent that “the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the bones and the flesh”,[13] and that “the believers will visit and enjoy them”.[14]
^ wow. No wonder these people are so f*cked up mentally.