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Simas Kudirka. Simas Kudirka (9 April 1930 – 11 February 2023) was a Lithuanian sailor. [1] He is best known for the attempted defection from the Soviet Union in 1970 and subsequent activism against the Soviet regime in Lithuania. An important outcome of the incident was the creation of the improved guidelines for handling defections by ...
The Defection of Simas Kudirka is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film based on actual events, featuring Alan Arkin as Simas Kudirka, a Lithuanian merchant seaman who attempts to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States by jumping onto a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Among the movie's awards are two Emmys wins and three more Emmy ...
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Numerous notable Eastern Bloc citizens defected to non-Eastern Bloc countries. [10] The following list of Eastern Bloc defectors contains notable defectors from East Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania before those countries' conversions from communist states in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Jump (Lithuanian: Šuolis) is a 2020 Lithuanian documentary film directed and produced by Giedrė Žickytė. [1] It was initially selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, [2] however, Isaac by Jurgis Matulevičius was ultimately submitted. [3][4]
The names of those who died were released Monday. None of the victims lived on the island, and the youngest was 73 years old. Four were from Jacksonville, Florida − Isaiah Thomas, 79; Carlotta ...
Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank more than a century ago and its wreck lay undiscovered at the bottom of the Weddell Sea until March 2022.. Now, the team behind ...
Richard Baker/ Getty Images Boeing was hit with multiple lawsuits this year. Passengers from the Alaska Airlines flight filed a class action suit against the company just days after the incident.