I've tried manfully to resist, but can't any longer.
The idea of the Soviets having a ship named "USS Liberty"....![]()
That would be CCCP свобода....
(I actually don't know what abbreviation the Soviets put on their ships)
I've tried manfully to resist, but can't any longer.
The idea of the Soviets having a ship named "USS Liberty"....![]()
(I actually don't know what abbreviation the Soviets put on their ships)
They didn't use ship prefixes (the modern Russian navy only does so for external use; internally they don't refer to ships as RFS whatever)
That's closer to Freedom than Liberty, no? (OK, hmmm... they're close enough semantically they might have the same translation.) But, either way, it would be a good Soviet ship name.That would be CCCP свобода....
(I actually don't know what abbreviation the Soviets put on their ships)
That happened multiple times. Look up Operation Rimon 20. In 1970, IAF fighters shot down 5 Soviet-piloted MiGs with no losses. During the Yom Kippur War, a number of Soviet personnel were killed, and several were reportedly taken prisoner and later exchanged for Soviet Jews. Also, Israeli missile boats sank a Soviet merchant ship, and there were a few times when the IDF and Soviet naval units fired at each other. Also, a Soviet ship was damaged in the Suez Canal (my dad, a Jewish kid in Russia at the time, got beaten up for that).