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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 ...
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.
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Simas Kudirka is a seaman of the USSR merchant fleet who made a daring escape, but was issued by the American coastal service back on board a Soviet ship.
The basic structure of Kriegsmarine uniforms and insignia was divided into 5 categories of personnel: Matrosen (Mannschaften, comparable OR-1 to OR-4, NATO) = Seamen enlisted personnel, usually serving for a short term of enlistment. Maate (Unteroffiziere ohne Portepee, OR-5a/b) = Technical specialist, the equivalent of a Petty Officer.
Nearly 500 years after the vessel sank in 1545 during a battle with a French fleet, the shipwreck is revealing what life was like in Tudor England. After the Mary Rose came to rest at the bottom ...
Liliana Gasinskaya. Liliana Leonidovna Gasinskaya (Russian: Лилиана Леонидовна Гасинская; Ukrainian: Ліліана Леонідівна Гасинська, Liliana Leonidivna Hasynska, born July 21, 1960) [1] is a woman who defected from the Soviet Union in 1979. On board a Soviet cruise ship, SS Leonid Sobinov (Black ...