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TIL about the Storozhevoy's mutiny. Valery Sablin, the ship's political commissar, detained the captain and other officers, prompting a manhunt involving half of the Baltic fleet, including 13 naval vessels and 60 warplanes. This incident was the basis for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October.

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