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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 ...
CBS. Release. January 23, 1978. (1978-01-23) 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.
1945. Deputy head of the NKVD in Istanbul, Turkey; contacted the British Istanbul consulate about defection, was arrested by the Soviets and disappeared forever (possibly executed) Valeri Tihonovitch Minakov. Russia. 1945. Escaped from Siberia across the Bering Sea in a small boat with his 6-year-old son Oleg.
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SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship.A flagship of the Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft ("Hamburg-South America Line"), she made her maiden voyage on 29 October 1927, carrying passengers and cargo between Germany and the east coast of South America, and ...
Russian rescue ship Kommuna. Kommuna is a submarine rescue ship [ 1 ][ 2 ] in service with the Russian Navy 's Black Sea Fleet and the world's oldest active duty naval vessel. [ 3 ] A catamaran, [ 4 ] she was laid down at the Putilov Factory (now Kirov Factory) in St. Petersburg in November 1912 as Volkhov. The ship was launched the following ...
The TT Seawise Giant —earlier Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont —was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship in history, built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. She possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement was ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. [s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.