Word: krivonosov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosion aboard the tanker set it afire while being towed by the Soviet in the Caspian Sea. Promptly Captain Krivonosov of the Soviet conferred with his political adviser, the Communist Party official assigned to most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
Finally the Court sentenced Captain Krivonosov to death, after calling him a "coward." To sentence the Party official to death would have made too much news. He got ten years. Nine sailors received various prison terms for the crime of "observing capitalistic traditions." The seven who had warned their captain that he would hear from Moscow were acquitted...
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