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Originally Posted by USS Drum
4.The Hunt for Red October, The thing I didn't like about it was the defecting Russian since there was no case in the war where a Russian submariner defected.
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Well it was based on two incidents that did happen, one was the defection of a Soviet tug crew and the other was the (believed) attempted defection of the crew of a Soviet Frigate. The Soviet Frigate mutiny was really an attempted coup.
While no Soviet submarine officer has defected a North Korea officer named Lee Kwang Soo did in 1996, the rest of his crew were killed or escaped back to North Korea.
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
1. You argue with Hunt For Red October because no Russian submariner defected, but you don't make the same case against Crimson Tide when no incident like that happened either? That confuses me. But don't worry, I'm easily confused.  |
Crimson Tide could be said to be
loosely based on the
B-59 incident of 27 October 1962.
