r/oddlyterrifying 6d ago

Numberless soviet phones

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u/AmonGusSus2137 6d ago

Why? And how does it work?

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u/Comfortable-Quiet-99 6d ago

You tell telephone operator who you want to call and operator connects you. Looks like never meant to be used by regular citizens and made for military bases and manufacturing facilities.

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u/VECMaico 6d ago

You put one in room A, and one in room B. Pick up the horn on one, it rings on the other.

It's what the president of the former USSR uses. He doesn't have a cell phone.

Can't type his name here or a bot removes the comment because it thinks it's about some war somewhere (can't type that either)

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u/DongQuixote1 5d ago

there is no president of the former USSR. there are multiple presidents in numerous ex-Soviet states. you're thinking of Russia, which was not the entire Soviet Union.

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u/VECMaico 5d ago

You know I am referring to V.P.

If I am typing his name (only the P., then my post is deleted by a bot). So don't come posting here to be a historian hero, when there's nothing to pick here for you on online karma.

I was clearly with my previous post why I said USSR. And while you are right about what you say, you didn't even care a second about the bot. Do kindly go forward with your life, will you?

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u/EE7A 5d ago

i didnt know that you cant type out "vp" in this sub until now, and that is very much oddly terrifying to me for some reason.

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u/VECMaico 5d ago

Bot is programmed to see anything with it related to current events in a specific country. They should program said bot to look at more keywords in one post

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u/EE7A 5d ago

yeah, i get it of course. its just kinda weird. im not a big fan of putler personally and it just kinda feels off-putting, but this is a pretty big sub and mods arent paid. preemptive bots make sense in this case; i just dont like it, lol.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/SparrowDotted 5d ago

Wow, they weren't wrong. What a stupid rule.

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u/Waaswaa 5d ago

It's weird that the Rusian/Youkranyan dispute should affect other types of discussion so much.

Bad bot!

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u/DongQuixote1 5d ago

stop being wrong on the internet

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u/VECMaico 5d ago

Stop telling random people what to do