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I've always loved the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October but I never knew it was based upon a true story. In 1975 one of the Soviet Baltic Fleet's newest and most advanced ships, the Century (English translation), a Soviet Frigate, mutinied. They imprisoned their captain and several of the Soviet Naval Officers lead a mutiny on the ship and attempted to defect to the west taking their state of the art Soviet warship with them. The story is a good one and it is made better because it is all true.
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It wasn't a sub and instead was a frigate which did indeed mutiny. The officers in charge of the mutiny screwed up though because instead of running to Sweden they turned north and attempted to use a radio broadcast to inspire a new Soviet revolution.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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What I can gather from the thread title is that there was some sort of manatee-like entity known as Red October, and that a hunt was on for it, and it turned out this munity was on the Century, which I have to assume was a boat of some sort. Am I close?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Yes, exactly.
It's the mutiny in the Soviet Navy which inspired the Tom Clancy novel. The officers screwed up by not running directly to Sweden though and instead sailed north in an attempt to inspire a revolution against the Soviet government. If the ship had headed directly for Sweden it might have gotten away but it didn't change course until it was too late.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I'm not going to watch the video, but this may be the thread subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_frigate_Storozhevoy.Comment
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Is it true that the captain of the Soviet boat was a Scottish spy who didn't even attempt to hide his accent?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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SCOTLANDTo us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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The Living Daylights and Goldeneye are the only non-sucky Bond movies. And Goldeneye is only decent because the video game on n64 was awesome.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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