I really enjoy this show. The episode last season where Reagan was shot and the KGB went into a tizzy thinking it might be WW III, you can imagine that probably happened that day.
This season had a very good last episode where they stole some Navy plans and those plans end up sinking a Russian sub after putting the designs into use. Then they find out that they were bogus plans. Who are they mad at? Reagan and America. Those monsters letting Russian sailors die like that!!
“the KGB went into a tizzy thinking it might be WW III, you can imagine that probably happened that day.”
That was the day Gen Al Haig, Sec of State, said he was “in control (not charge) here”. He later explained he did so because he was concerned the Ruskies would misread what had happened and be afraid this was the beginning of a coup leading to an attack on the USSR.
I believe Oleg was pretty convincing in saying the Soviets didn't test the propeller properly and placed it on the wrong size vessel. His stance was the Soviet Politburo used the "fake plans" story to lay the blame for the lost sub onto the KGB.