Thanks for the info!
But I'll never have the same amount of respect for the Soviet sub campaign as I do for the German, or British. Why?
One soviet captain, on a war patrol in 1945, caused the second-biggest maritime disaster ever, when he sent a ship full of German refugees and wounded to the bottom. One week later, he caused the largest maritime disaster ever, doing the exact same thing to the Whilhelm Gustloff. This captain returned to port to receive an order of the red banner. If he hadn't been involved in an incident on shore, he would have been awarded the title hero of the soviet union. Just before Gorbachev fell, he awarded the hero of the soviet union to the captain posthumously, as the picky man had decided that it would be be best to go into a drunken rage and be thrown into a Siberian death camp.
Still, that's not to say all Russian submariners were like this.
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