Revolution begins at home
In 1975, the officers and crew of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (Sentry) mutinied, under the leadership of their erstwhile Marxist political officer Valery Sablin, who steamed her out of Riga into the Baltic Sea with visions of recreating the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion, an idealistic uprising against what the sailors saw as the Bolshevik betrayal of revolutionary […]
