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MUTINY The mutiny was led by Capt. 3rd rank had been discarded, and there was a pressing need to revive the Lenin ist principles of Justice . On the evening of November 9 , 1975, Sablin locked the captain in his cabin and seized control of the ship. All of the ship's crew who did not wish to go along with the plan were given the option to lock themselves in their cabins to avoid being implicated. When the Soviet admiralty learned of the mutiny, the "''Storozhevoy''" was stopped by aerial bombing and boarded by Soviet Marines Commandos . All the crew was arrested, but only Sablin and Alexander Shein, a 26-year-old seaman, were tried and convicted. Sablin was executed by Firing Squad , while Shein was sentenced to prison and was released after serving over 10 years there. The mutiny inspired Tom Clancy to write '' The Hunt For Red October .'' EXTERNAL LINKS
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