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The Sad Story of Soviet Cruiser Murmansk.. Today is Halloween, and we love to trade spooky stories of ghosts and ghost ships to get into the spirit. Todays ghost ship story, however, is more sad and pathetic than spooky: Soviet Cruiser Murmansk, once a ship that sent shivers down NATO admirals spines, wound up an embarrassing rusted-out hulk stuck in a Norwegian fjord in the mid 90s. In many ways this ended up a perfect metaphor for the state of the former Soviet military at the time; as Putin rattles his saber today, its easy to forget the prevailing attitude about Russias military being a collection of antiquated junk at the time. oppositelock.jalopnik/the-sad-story-of-soviet-cruiser-murmansk-1653114022
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:02:09 +0000

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