This Was the Real Hunt for Red October - Mutiny on the Storozhevoy
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2020
- On November 9, 1975, half of the entire Soviet Baltic Fleet was suddenly placed on high alert. Their orders: hunt down and stop the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy by any means necessary. Earlier that evening, the ship had been seized from its captain by its Zampolit, Valery Mikhaylovich Sablin. The political commissar was leading a mutiny and had redirected the ship full-speed towards Sweden. It was to be a real-life “Hunt for Red October”...
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Fun Fact: Tom Clancy was interrogated by the CIA/FBI/Naval Intelligence because his book was so accurate as to then "Top Secret' current technologies and tactics. He presented the Thesis and received a formal apology. He kept that letter framed in his office.
I think the main reason he was questioned is, come to find out, America came up with the caterpillar drive in the early 70's.
@@jeffsanders663 Which Bill Clinton sold to the Chinese in the 90's.
@@jeffsanders663 caterpillar drive? Never heard of it
I don’t blame him. Imagine being so good a writer the feds investigate you as a spy
@@mynameisgladiator1933 aluminum foil hat time.
6:53 "You have reached the offices of the Bulgarian National Navy. If you know the extension of the party to which you want to speak, enter it now. Please listen to this menu, as the choices have changed. For directions to Sweden, press 1. To report a mutiny, press 2. To join a mutiny, press 3. To seek a speaking part in the upcoming movie, press 4."
how does this not have more likes?
lmao good one
Bolderaja, not Bulgaria.
nice comment but Bulgaria is in the Balkans, I think you meant Bolderāja
"An officer who supported him during the mutiny snuck off the ship" Not exactly. It was an officer who did not support him, but said he supported him and voted to support the mutiny, so he wouldn't be locked below deck and guarded. He planned to get off the ship and alert navy headquarters all along.
That's smart.
"" said he support him" , who ? What? Who is he ? Him?
Have you seen that documentary on nat geo
voluntarily went for a swim in the Baltic in November. Seriously ?
@@ABrit-bt6ce thankfully he was not weighed down excessively by his huge balls
Be careful what you shoot at. Most things in here don't react to well to bullets....
"BLAM! Crack! BLAM! Whiz! BLAM! Ping!"
"*I* have to be care what *I* shoot at?"
makes sense
If someone tries to kill ya, ya have to kill'em back!
Great content but the frequency of adverts becomes distracting / anoying
Like me... I don't react well to bullets!!!
Sablin Wholesome
When you're so communist that you think the USSR needs more communism.
When a people are disenfranchised by state directed economic misfortune collectivism is very alluring. Don't discount people's goals when the means are inadvertent self strangulation. The proles in the USSR were on the verge of rioting since the. Beginning of Stalinism
@Blasian Babies
A Utopia is literally impossible.
For multiple reasons the main one being..
The definition...
Utopia = Nowhere
Nowhere doesn't Exist
So Utopia doesn't Exist either.
Soviet is actually socialism, comparing to a more idealistic term as Communism. And By 1970s the socialistic USSR is often be agreed as backing away from the communist idealism but become worse than their enemy, which is what we saw today.
@rrobertt13 better than at least 48% of yanks today.
@@wolfensniper4012
Soviet Union was Always Worse.
It didn't become Worse.
It didn't go bad it the 70s..etc.
It was Garbage basically..
from the beginning.
For example..
WW2
Who was better prepared and didn't have to rely on Numbers ?
Us or Soviets ??
Whose scientist's develop
"the bombs" and didn't have to steal and/or spy to get the Tech/info ??
"Cold war"
Who built a Wall to keep people from escaping their system ??
Did the Soviets ever have a GDP higher than the U.S. ?
Did the Soviets ever have a
(equal) military force ??
(Ships,Planes,drones,Nukes,stealth)
What Year did the Soviets have a better average standard of living for its citizens ??
The anwsers to these questions prove the Soviets were never better.
"I vant to live in Montana"
Montana doesn’t want You !!!!!!
I would've liked to have seen Montana.
I will marry a big woman , and live in Montana...
You'll need at least 2 wives and an RV
I want to live in my cat
Sablin was executed. Why couldn't you mention that?
That's what I thought happened to him. I guess he implied it with "much harsher consequences". Penalty for treason is usually a firing squad
That was a given. "much harsher consequences", indeed.
With as how touchy UA-cam has gotten, regarding what you can say, the narrator was probably avoiding certain buzzwords that can get the video demonetized. I'm seeing it more and more with the UA-camrs I follow.
Syxx_Killer yup, if history is disturbing, change it.
just being politically correct.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.
Captain Ramius: Oh, at least
@wargent99
If we leave it up to the Dems we have today. They want us to live hand to mouth off the government tit.
1 ping only please
@@orangejuice4332 You do realize that most of the blue states pay more to the federal government than they get back and the states that get back far more than they contribute are all red states. The idea that dems take more than they give is just conservative B... S...! New York paid 22 BILLION more than they got back last year. www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-05-15/some-states-like-new-york-send-billions-more-to-federal-government-than-they-get-back
@@BruceTitus52 that's spin. there is no way Michigan pays more then it gets.
@Howie Felterbush Then show me the "easy" stats you have.
The one dislike is that captain that had his boat taken
Tell Cersai it was ME!
There are currently 53 dislikes .... probably 53 captains of that boat. Damn, they multiply.
153 Now 🍻
@@jfm562 its over 9000!
The 243 captains are salty
This UA-cam page has more credibility than the history channel
Too bad that isn't much of a challenge these days.
Aliens wrote this comment to stray you away from the truth that HC reports..
That doesn't take much.
Grant Green facts.
Except when this UA-cam channel uses the wrong video footage for the topic.
Sailor tries to warn about mutiny: "lol, drunken sailor". Then tries to be picked up for transport. "No way drunken sailor, not in my trabbie!". Then walks to navy base and give warning directly. "lol drunken sailor".Planes are sent out to intercept. Bombs civilian freighter. Then shoots at wrong ship, which fires back. No one hits anything.Communist training at its finest.Also: He was definately going to defect. Had he gone to Leningrad, they could have just waited for him there.
@Giada_De_Low_Rent_Tits not true. it would be easy to have ships ready where its planed to splash down. its just easier and cheaper to land close to home
How tf does a political ideology translate to Military doctrine/ training? LOL
@@user-dd8vo7or2d Because the idealogy and system promotes people loyal to said system rather than those most qualified for their job. Arab militaries often suffer from a similar problem.
@@marcosburgos8415 And are Arabs communist?
And is the US army effective in Vietnam? Or Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
„No one hits anything“ was maybe deliberate (warning shots). Besides, I have seen capitalist firing which was even worse.
“The hard part about playing chicken is knowin' when to flinch.”
Wholesome Buryatia :)
Looking forward to more amazing stories from the cold war era, when they are eventually declassified 👍
Everything actually
worth knowing will
Never come out.
Why ??
The Classification levels
are to high
+ does the public really need to know ??? Really??
Can they handle it ??
Also from another perspective.
If you know something
You can have a opinion on it.
(Unpredictable)
If you DON'T know something
You have NO opinion.
(Predictable)
Especially files on RFK, JFK, MLK, MALCOLM X...
@@1sthander373hshhs
@@1sthander373 jshs
@@1sthander373 ภ
Historians deserve more credit. Thank you.
Well, real historians. You need to tease them out of the masses of historical propagandists.
“I would like to have seen Montana.”
Ironically, a few years later Sam Neil starred in Jurassic Park, he played a speleologist digging in... Montana.
@@Treblaine oh sooooo ironic 👎
@Ben Jones and one sub WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY the hell out at pearl!
@Ben Jones forgetting to role down first
Montana I may go this weekend...
Honestly the Dark Universe channel content continues to get better and better. Not sure how you find some of the obscure and terrifically interesting stories that you do but I hope you never run short on them. Thank you for the constant high quality entertainment!
Scottish-Lithuanians, the most dangerous submariners.
Your suspense filled narration was penetrating and entertaining. The information was spot on. Thank you.
“Penetrating”
Phones these days ;)
He missed several key points from the book.
@@davidschick6951 He wasn't describing the book, he was describing the real world event.
The hunt for the Red October is the greatest cold war film ever made.
I like Ice Station Zebra but I agree that The Hunt for Red October was a great film.
Both are good. 👍
It is the best serious drama for the category. Dr. Strangelove is and will forever be the greatest cold war film.
And the movie is utter garbage compared to the book.
Right up there with Strangelove and War Games.
"A great day, comrades. We sail into history!"
You mean “Shail into hishtory”.
Rip Sean Connery
Sailor tries to warn about mutiny: "lol, drunken sailor". Then tries to be picked up for transport. "No way drunken sailor, not in my trabbie!". Then walks to navy base and give warning directly. "lol drunken sailor".Planes are sent out to intercept. Bombs civilian freighter. Then shoots at wrong ship, which fires back. No one hits anything.Communist training at its finest.Also: He was definately going to defect. Had he gone to Leningrad, they could have just waited for him there.
Great info
Man you are literally everywhere. Big fan btw. Keep up the awesome content.
Valery sablin....... Tno fans will understand
sablin chungus
@@cgndnm cursed tabby
@@cgndnm Hedgeman I I ui8i9o9iii
Thank you for your great documentaries. I love how short and fast and informative they are.
He was a god damn hero. We need more men like him in the world, but sadly few remain. Takes immense bravery to act on what's right.
The planes aren't Y.A.K.s, they're Yaks, short for Yakovlev.
Sad. Sablin dreamt of a better world.
I have a friend who's father was in the navy. On one of his deployments, there was an incident where a Russian sub that they were following(or something along those lines, not entirely sure)tried surfacing, but collided into the US ship above it when doing so. Both sides were embarrassed about it so it never made it to the news
@Chase Coleman. That was probably the Kitty Hawk collision in ‘84. There’s a video about that: ua-cam.com/video/ACSzlEX362o/v-deo.html
@@jeffzaun1841 There were many others for example USS Voge and K22
Tautog?
Can confirm. US Navy submariner. 1985-1989.
Now we can avenge Sablin and make him the blessed leader of the restored USSR
Buryatia gamer
based
You had me at "The Real Hunt for Red October."
Well done!
Crazy that the"political" officer was the one to arrange a mutiny and want to defect, considering they of all people should be loyal to the state.
They were specifically chosen and trained for their loyalty and unwavering obedience.
Turns out that the state was not communist enough for him.
De-Stalinization ended up leaving many Stalin loyalists in positions where they're required to be loyal to a state they viewed as having betrayed Marxist-Leninist ideals.
that's because he didn't want to defect. He felt that commies went off track and he wanted sail to St Petersburg and start new revolution like Aurora (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Aurora) did.
@@infantjones The Soviet Union really made a science of brainwashing
He was loyal to the original State. Then the State changed.
I love your channel so much , we learning about WW2 now and it’s really interesting and this channel has just helped me through it so thank you
Check out "Mark Felton Productions"
@@CommiTsunami hey, i subbed him already :3
Good call, also try The History Guy and for historical movies and tv and how they compare to what actually happened check out History Buffs. Also, War Stories with Mark Felton is another of his channels that is good.
please get your thumbnail maker to stop using those red circles and arrows. It makes this channel look like clickbait, and it's not.
I agree . I was wondering about that. Is Dark Docs doing it on purpose
He shows also wrong pictures and videos in his content. For example: he tells about Yak-28 planes and shows the Su-15 and so on. There are many footage of Yak planes, why didn't he use them.
Regardless to the nice topic, I disliked the video.
Another solid production from Dark Docs. Thank you for the massive amount of entertainment and pleasure your channel and videos have brought me.
Best channel on youtube.. Along with the rest of dark series.... Thanks for the amazing content across all your channels.
Nowadays the “Dark” channels get my thumbs up before the damn video even starts. Good shit.
Once again, great video. Concise, super-well edited, and best of all (as usual) - I'd never heard this story before. I see a couple of comments noting slight 'errors' in the visuals - I don't think people appreciate the great visual story-telling going on here - how many cuts there are in thirteen minute Dark Doc - and how hard it must be to get a constant flow of fast-cut video and stills to tell the story. Top notch.
Or the hours of work just to produce 1 video. Mr. Felton makes the History Channel look like Sesame Street
@@newt21 Being better than the "History" channel is a pretty low bar lol .. but I do agree with the sentiments from both you and the OP.
Fantastic piece Dark Docs. Thank you.
this is definitely my favorite of all your videos. Thank you for your great content.
Your work is very much appreciated.
“The god damn cook?!!”
These docs are really good man, you use the footage well
Never heard about this.
I’m always “all ears” for hearing a mutiny story!
I can imagine the Swedes' views in this: "There seems to be some kind of a civil war inside of the Soviet Navy... this should be interesting, and may well be an opportunity.", that about sums up the situation in question.
Would be interesting to see sweden's reaction if a freaking soviet cruiser turned up at their doorstep
My grandfather wrote a book about this very incident many decades ago. “The Red Banner Mutiny” by Andrew P. O’Rourke
Dark Docs and Dark Footage are some great channels to binge watch! I just wish the videos were a bit longer - like 20-30 mins or so.
Awesome as always!!!!!
Wholesome Sablin vs Unwholesome Brezhnev.
Four ads in thirteen minutes, two of which are repeats? Attention, sponsors! UA-cam is driving your customers away.
3.....2.....1.....Skip Ad.
Get uBlock Origin or adblocker.
If i see an ad on yt i will not buy it.
I had no idea. This was a well done, concise presentation of a very suspenseful episode in the Cold War.
It's dead simple, Dark Docs upload a video ; I click
'one ping only'
Windows/DOS: ping /n 1
Linux/BSD/MacOSX: ping -c 1
RYAN!
I have no idea why I've never heard of this before. Thanks so much for the video
I could of sworn iv watched you cover this already .. . Good watch like always apreiciete you cranking this videos out
Great video. Red October is one of my favorite movies
1st Mate... "You won't seize this ship."
Valery... "Hold my vodka".
I can't believe you didn't say what actually happened to him!! You did the research but choose to leave it out...??
"Although this crime usually carried a 15-year prison sentence, Sablin was executed on 3 August 1976. "
He committed treason...
treason = dead , no matter which country you from treason is highest kind of crime one can commited
He was lucky to be executed, he'd have suffered far worse before dying in the mines of the Kolyma had he been sent there for 15 years.
@@jwenting Well said! There are worse things than being dead.
Good question. This video simply skipped the fact he was executed. Dark Docs did the research for this, they obviously must have known unless they're awful researchers. Probably a channel run by the russian state
love this channel, keep up the good work!
Always excellent docs !!!!! Very well done as always !!!! Truth is much stranger than fiction.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Russian revolution was in 1967 not 1975 .
In 1975 it was 30th WWII anniversary.
@@ThePolsss But not in November. You're right though, that was a glaring mistake.
Listen again 50 seconds or so...he slurs the words 'fifty-eighth' anniversary....we're both right....👍
You folks do such a great job with Cold War topics. It could be awesome if you did a Cold War only channel. Dark War. Soon you should look at the US Navy’s operations on Lake Tanganyika in Africa during the 70’s. The book Cold War Navy Seal was incredible on this topic. There were PT/patrol boats, swift boats, at least 1 large German warship a few custom craft defending cities on that African lake. Some of the boats are still there today. Another would be the AFAR (Azores Fixed Acoustical Array) undersea antenna or Project Artemis, built as a giant undersea ear, pointing at the Mediterranean opening Straits of Gibraltar pass.
Suspenseful history to the end! I was routing for the Storozhevoy to make it to Sweden! Thanks again!
This channel is gonna blow up I’m certain.
nicely researched and presented! Great stuff to go with an awesome movie! Minor correction on a miss-speak: at 4:21, you say Nov 9, 1976, but I'm sure you meant 1975. Boy this is great though!
Why are you confused between soldier and sailor? Sailors are in the navy.
Love it! Keep it coming!!
Dude you tell the best stories.
"The world trembled at the shound of our rockets now they will tremble at the shound of our shilence."
We will evade their destroyer screens, slip last their sonar nets,lay off their largest city and listen to their...rock and roll.
I’m just reading that and even then I hear Sean Connery
What a mess from the start! No one believed the sailor, over and over and over again lol. They're shooting at each other, sinking civilian ships. Took half the baltic fleet, 60 planes, and in the end the damned captain was the one that got it under control. This is a great example of why and how the soviet system didn't work.
Boy you sure are stupid
@@ac300 Why is he stupid explain ?
This channel is just the best.
Greg Young! My all-time favorite professor!
10:13 Talks about TU-16's. The video shows an American Lockheed P-2 Neptune
11:10 British Royal Navy
Also@ 13:30 tells of Yak-28s & shows Su-15s instead.
Also half way through the video the ship in question changes from being a destroyer to being a frigate somehow.
I actually paused this video to read up on the Storozhevoy. Surprisingly this isn't bullshit - it actually happened.
I've found Mark Felton to be a very truthful youtuber. Not once have I found his content to be made up. A few minor and un-important facts were up for debate but the meat of the videos are solid.
@@justandy333 This ain't Mark Felton
@@laurikotivuori1585 🤣🤣🤣 You're correct. I got my youtubers mixed up. Still, my statement still stands. Albeit in the wrong place 😉
@@justandy333 lol Mark is great yeah
Excellent documentary dark docs.
Great video, dude! I am subscribing...
SEAN CONNERY!
Red Oktober, Shtanding by.
Just one ping Vasily, one ping only.
Give the man a chance
Red Adair standing by.. 😁
"i'd say he's having second thoughts."
Excellent channel thank you.
Thoroughly enjoyed.
So the Zampolit wanted to escape demagoguery by a return to purer demagoguery. Makes sense to me.
One off the best movies made off a submarine The Hunt For The Red October from Tom Clancy
Excellent Channel! Great video's. Subbed
I bow in awe, to your abilities into research.
I fail to remember, any of your videos, that wasn't new information to me.
Cadeau!
According to the book about this incident, Sablin had promised the sailors that if they would help him out he would get them out of the Navy early. They didn't know that he didn't have the authority to do that but it would have gotten them to cooperate. Supposedly the title of the book is "The Last Sentry" but having read it, I think it is something else.
He wasn’t going to defect. He has a more extreme form of ideology. He wanted the party stay purer to it’s communism core.
He wanted less extreme, he wanted the party to return to it's Marxist-Leninist roots from the authoritarian police state it had become. From 1922 to 1975 the USSR had gradually moved from being on the left to about as far right as can be and true communists hated it, but if you argued against the party you were made to vanish.
Can you imagine the tension and fear onboard.
With every decision made by the captain and those loyal to him they must have looked at each other and said “We’re all gonna die”.
Not really, if they wanted the Captain dead then they would have killed him rather than locking him up below deck as a prisoner.
Best channel on UA-cam.
There is another story that inspired The hunt for red october.
Jonas Plaskus or Jonas Pleškys (10 March 1935 in Giliogiris, Lithuania - 14 April 1993) was a Soviet Navy submarine tender captain born in Lithuania. He died in California, United States.[1]
In 1961 he sailed his vessel from Klaipėda to Gotland in Sweden, not the planned destination of Tallinn. The Soviet authorities sentenced him in his absence to death by firing squad, but the CIA hid him, first in Guatemala and later in the United States. The tender, essentially a barge, was returned to Soviet custody.[2]
It is believed that this incident was one of two that inspired Tom Clancy in his writing of The Hunt for Red October. The other was the mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy.
Plaskus was relocated to Seattle, WA where he attended the University of Washington and initially lived with an American family to improve his English. Later he worked as a programmer/analyst in Silicon Valley in the 1970s. In 1979 he accepted a job in Caracas. He revisited Lithuania briefly in 1992.[2] Assumed relative of Ieva Ručinskaitė.
thanks for putting the red arrow and circle in the thumbnail, i never would have seen the plane and ship..
G'day Dark, This is a great video and it uncovers much more information than I saw, recently, on a UA-cam video that compares the 'real' mutiny with the Hollywood film. In that video they either didn't know, or chose to omit, the inside details in your video. (Although, you didn't mention that Sablin was executed.) Your research into this fascinating and scary tale from the Cold War is astounding and is far more logical than the other video I mentioned. It filled in some narrative gaps in the previous video. Either way, what ever Sablin was planning was, clearly, doomed to failure. He might have been well intentioned but his grip on reality was highly questionable. Well done, Dark, for clearing up the missing pieces of this story which has puzzled me for some time. Cheers, BH
Thank You !
A good friend of mine, Andrew P O’Rourk , wrote a thrilling book about this called the RED BANNER MUTINY! I think that it is out of print, but he had detailed knowledge of the event due to his work for the Pentagon. It’s well worth a read!
Will need to check it out, thanks for sharing!
They should make another movie. This time with real facts.
Never knew this story. Thanks!
I read a book written by the Storozhevoy’s former engineering officer, Boris Gindin, (now an American citizen) who was caught up in this incident. The book is titled, “Mutiny” by Boris Gindin and David Hagberg. Great book from his perspective. 👍
Two recommendations of topics.
1. The Swedish submarine hunt (the frantic hunt for the Russian or as some speculate NATO submarine).
2, Why the The SR-71 stopped flying over Sweden, the accidental fooling around that lead to a anti air missile launcher getting a complete radar lock on a SR-71, the how two 37 Viggen intercepted and escorted a SR-71 with a broken engine out of soviet reach, and how a the 37 Viggen became the only none nato air craft to get a confirmed lock-on on the SR-71.
3. The unconventional and secretive system behind the power hose that was Swedish Air Force during the cold war.
Funny joke about the sr-71. Almost made me laugh
@@alexschenewerk7436 The only funny thing is how American under estimate Swedish engineering, the small Gotland class submarine is another example.
@@klaspeppar5619 was that the one which "sunk" an aircraft carrier in a military exercise?
@@Jusuff yup, it scored multiple simulated direct hits during a military exercise.
The Gotland Class submarine, managed to slipp behind the simulated enemy lines and dissappear, as in the US Navy was unable to find it during the exercise.
The US Navy ended up leasing the submarine and its crew, to continue training after the exercise ended.
This sounds like a world of warships random battle teammates getting mad at accidental FF and firing back lol
Cool ! Great video.
I love these videos! Such good content. Pleaseeeee make one on Dan Cooper!!!