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Grady 2022-03-19 09:01:03
Hunting in the deep sea
The submarine was born in the Second World War. It was used by the Nazi Germany at that time. This new type of ship, which once caused the entire Allied forces, especially the British Navy, was a headache or even on the verge of collapse. Under the efforts of the German Navy, it developed into a A...
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Dusty 2022-03-22 09:01:22
Did the Soviets also have the "American Dream"?
The Hunt For Red October is one of the representative works of Tom Clancy, a famous American military novelist. It describes a senior Soviet submarine officer who was dissatisfied with the Soviet Communist system and gathered a group of cronies to command the Soviet Union's most advanced...
John C. Grant
The Hunt for Red October quotes
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[Ryan is on board a plane experiencing violent turbulence]
Navigator C-2A: What's the matter Commander? You don't like flying, huh? Aw, this is nothing! You should've been with us five, six months ago! Whoa! You talk about puke! We ran into a hailstorm over the Sea of Japan. Everybody's retching their guts out! The pilot shot his lunch all over the windshield, and I barfed on the radio! Shorted it out completely! And it wasn't that lightweight stuff either, it was that chunky industrial weight puke!
[offers him the candy bar he's been eating]
Navigator C-2A: Hey, you want a bite?
Jack Ryan: Jack, next time you get a bright idea just put it in a memo!
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Dr. Petrov: Well if you like borsch perhaps, but I've eaten better in an oily GALLEY. My wife said to the waiter, "where did this man learn to cook? AFGHANISTAN? So then we went on to the Bolshoi ballet, to see this new girl Gizelle. Well, you remember how BEAUTIFUL she was! Well, she just married a factory manager and...
