Checking the source, this was just published today. Assuming this is very recent, Russia will see this.
No doubt this is the kind of nazism Putin refers to. I suspect the Cuban missile crises still ranks as the closest to nuclear war we've ever been, but that record may be exceeded in the near future.
I was in the army then, in 83, stationed in Germany with a digital communication hub that we rumored among ourselves was a prime target for a nuclear hit. But we never heard of this.
I don't think US Intel knew what really happened until the fall of the USSR in the early 90s. As I recall, Col. Petrov was harshly punished for failing to follow the launch orders. I think he was redeemed later, post USSR.