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  • True tale of Cold War terror - Account of 1969 sinking of Soviet sub has lessons for today

    12/18/2005 6:56:53 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 87 replies · 4,406+ views
    Flint Journal ^ | December 18, 2005 | Doug Allyn
    One unforeseen blessing of the collapse of the Soviet Union has been the easing of security restrictions in former Iron Curtain nations. Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Western journalists have been able to access to classified documents that would have gotten them shot a few years before. That's a scary thought - but not nearly as chilling as some of the secrets they've uncovered. In "Red Star Rogue," author Kenneth Sewell takes us inside the once top-secret Soviet nuclear navy to reveal the explosive facts about one of best-kept secrets of the Cold War, the sinking of Soviet...