Ballast 'n Bilge:

The story for "The Hunt for Red October" derived from the account of a 1975 mutiny
aboard the Soviet Navy's most advanced warships, the destroyer STOROZBEVOY (SENTRY
in English). The mutiny was led by the ship's political commissar, Valeri Sablin, a
Communist idealist who became fed up with conditions in the Soviet Union and hoped
that the mutiny would trigger the overthrow of Leonid Breznev's government.

The Soviets suppressed the news of the incident, but Gregory Young, a U.S. naval officer, succeeded in piecing the story together while studying at the Navy
Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. is report was discovered in 1982 b y Tom Clancy
who made it the basis of his best-selling fictionalized account, The Hunt for Red October. However, unlike Clancy's novel, the ending of the true story is tragic.
Sablin's ship was bombed and seized by the Soviet military, and he subsequently
was executed.

Later,

ROBERT M.