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Question #7

I was born in Komsomolsk-na-Amure and disappeared close to Pearl Harbor.

Several animals are connected to me : scorpion, halibut and swordfish... But I don't really like fish...

Question :

1. Who (or what) am I?

Soviet Submarine K-129 (Golf II):

2. What is my history ?

K-129 was a Project 629A (NATO reporting name Golf-II) diesel-electric powered submarine of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, one of six Project 629 strategic ballistic missile submarines attached to the 15th Submarine Squadron based at Rybachiy Naval Base, Kamchatka, commanded by Rear Admiral Rudolf A. Golosov.

In January 1968, the 15th Submarine Squadron was part of the 29th Ballistic Missile Division at Rybachiy, commanded by Admiral Viktor A. Dygalo. K-129's commander was Captain First Rank V.I. Kobzar. K-129 carried hull number 722 on her final deployment in which she sank on 8 March 1968. After sinking, the Soviet Navy never found her wreck. The United States attempted to recover the boat in 1974 in Project Azorian, a secret cold war-era plot to raise a vessel from greater than 3.0 miles (4.8 km) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean with the cover story of commercial manganese nodule mining.

3. Give the reason why these 3 animals are connected to me.

In early August 1968, the wreck of K-129 was pinpointed by the USS Halibut (SSGN-587) northwest of Oahu, at an approximate depth of 16,000 feet (4,900 m). The wreck was surveyed in detail over the next three weeks by Halibut -reportedly with over 20,000 close-up photos- and later also possibly by thebathyscaphe Trieste II.

Collision with USS Swordfish

During the Cold War, it was standard practice for U.S. Navy attack submarines to pick up and trail Soviet missile submarines as they departed their home ports and moved into the North Pacific or the North Atlantic Ocean.^[10] The collision theory is the unofficial opinion of many Soviet Navy officers,^[11] and is officially denied by the U.S Navy. According to U.S. Navy sources, USS Swordfish (SSN-579) put into Yokosuka, Japan on 17 March 1968, shortly after the disappearance of K-129, and received emergency repairs to a bent periscope, reportedly caused by ice impacted during surfacing while conducting classified operations in the Sea of Japan.

The USS Pueblo (AGER-2) seizure by the North Korean government occurred in the Sea of Japan on 23 January 1968, and the U.S. Navy response to this incident included the deployment and maintenance of naval assets in the area off the eastern North Korean coast for some time thereafter.

In response to Russian efforts to ascertain whether K-129 had been lost due to damage resulting from a collision with a U.S. submarine, an official U.S. statement by Ambassador Malcolm Toon to a Russian delegation during a meeting in the Kremlin in August 1993 related:

At my request, U.S. naval intelligence searched the logs of all U.S. subs that were active in 1968. As a result, our director of naval intelligence has concluded that no U.S. sub was within 300 nautical miles (560 km) of your sub when it sank.

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A news release in 2000 demonstrates that Russian suspicion and sensitivity concerning the collision possibility, and indeed their preference for such an explanation, remains active:

As recently as 1999, Russian government officials complained that Washington was covering up its involvement. One accused the Americans of acting like a "criminal that had been caught and now claimed that guilt must be proved," according to the notes of a U.S. participant in a November 1999 meeting on the topic.

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Yet a picture from a Japanese newspaper, dated on the day USS Swordfish docked in Japan showed only a bent sail and a dented periscope.

An unconfirmed report states that K-129 was indeed trailed from its homeport Petropavlovsk by the USS Barb, which had been stationed off Petropavlovsk for an intelligence gathering mission. According to the report, the USS Barb had order to attack in case K-129 would prepare for a missile launch. The report further states that USS Barb witnessed the sinking of K-129, but was not involved in it.^[14]

In Sewell's next book, All Hands Down, he claimed the Russians falsely believed K-129 was sunk by the U.S. Navy, possibly in a collision with the Swordfish. The book also states that theUSS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lured into a trap and sunk by a Ka-25 helicopter in retaliation for K-129.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960)

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You nailed it! :jumping: Question #5 is all yours.

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Question #4:

I was behind the most wicked practical joke ever played.

Who was I, what was the joke and how did it end up hurting me?

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Okay, stained glass window of Lenin in the Old Library on Bebelplatz.

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I'm going to go with: Bust of Lenin wall of the former swimming pool of the Russian Embassy on Behrenstrasse.

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Seems there are a few more in the former DDR including Berlin:

http://www.kunst-am-wege.de/index.php?title=Kategorie:Lenin_(Thema)&rcid=2718

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• Eric Enge - mural on a school, Struth
  

H

• Hans gravel - Lenin monument, Strausberg
  

L

• Lenin memorial plaque on Bebel Platz, Berlin
  

L (cont.)

• Lenin memorial plaque at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin
  
• Lenin memorial in Frankfurter Allee, Berlin
  
• Lenin relief in the Behr, Berlin
  

M

• Model builder and the former pumping station hall - Lenin monument
  

R

• Wall relief in the Philipp-Müller-Strasse, Strausberg
  

S

• Stepanour - Lenin monument, Neuruppin
  

W

• Werner Laux - Lenin Memorial, Berlin
  

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Lenin

East Germany: Berlin (1970) by Nikolai Tomskigranite, 19m, Leninplatz, removed in 1992 and buried outside Berlin (there are plans to re-erect it); a bust of Lenin can still be seen on the wall of the former swimming pool of the Russian Embassy on Behrenstrasse and there is a stained glass window of Lenin in the Old Library on Bebelplatz. One statue of Lenin (approximately 2:1) is still standing in Brommystrasse (corner Köpenickerstrasse) in the yard of a removal company.

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Many thanks Paul! :jumping: I plan to... soon as I can get enough $$'s ahead to do it. I've never had anything researched before but hope to do everything I have over time... just a case of being able to afford it.

Will definitely post if and when I can get it done.

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This is only my third ORB and my second from WW2. The other is still un-researched and the feeling was it's a LS award. I still have my hopes but I'm not holding my breath.

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My latest... a Christmas present from my wife Kim... isn't she terrific! :jumping: Whenever she does such things the words from the old "Big Bopper" song come to mind... "Honey... you knooooooooow what I like!"

Order of the Red Banner (227,512) which I believe puts it in WW2. In the green bible it has:

227,108 14.6.45 2nd Belorussian Artillery Commander

228,566 6.3.45 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment Unit

Of course any comments or info welcome.

This is one I'm dying to research. I've yet to do any and have quite a number I want to get done... just have to get ahead enough $$ wise. But hoping against hope this one will be a good one.

Hi Thomas... great pic! Thanks for sharing. :jumping:

I did a quick search on Google and came up with a few links you might want to check out that mention our units in Ochtendung during WW1.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=were+U.S.+troops+in+Ochtendung+during+WW1%3F&pbx=1&oq=were+U.S.+troops+in+Ochtendung+during+WW1%3F&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=63l14597l0l15036l48l35l5l0l0l3l1280l18316l0.3.1.8.8.4.6.3l39l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=2f0b188327e19041&biw=1366&bih=643

Hope it helps.

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Managed to find these which may help:

First off, from here on GMIC, although I can't say I liked some of the negativity of the thread. After reading it I don't feel Les meant any disrespect towards Ataturk or anyone else. He was simply looking for specific and accurate information on Ataturk's ODM's, specifically those awarded for bravery, which is what I believe we're supposed to be all about here. But there is much good information in the thread:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/31814-mustafa-kemal-ataturks-awards/

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3552

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk_awards

http://www.facebook.com/pages/List-of-Mustafa-Kemal-Atat%C3%BCrk-awards/136861606336934?sk=wiki

Anyhow hope this helps out. Other than having some Turkish blood in me and having an overall interest in the awards I've never really been able to add any to my collection save a damaged TWM/star and that is now residing with one of our other members. It's not from lack of wanting but simply the expense of many of the Turkish awards. I have the same problem re: pocket watches as over the last few years Ottoman pocket watches went far beyond what I was able/willing to pay for one. I had a chance at two extremely nice examples in California about eight years ago for very low prices but passed them up and have regretted it ever since. I'd dearly love to have one as well as a few ODM's to help me connect with my Turkish roots. Here's hoping... someday.

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From that scene in the film:

M: I'd have expected the KGB to celebrate if Silicon Valley had been destroyed.

General Gogol: On the contrary, Admiral. Where would Russian research be without it?

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Next one is all yours!

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Congrats! You nailed it on all counts! :jumping:

Question #110: This one again leans towards my quiz over in the Cinema section. The first question is the one necessary to win the point. The other three questions are simply icing on the cake.

What Soviet award did James Bond receive?

In what film did this occur?

Who presented the award to M (in the absence of Bond)?

What did Bond do to receive this honor?

Just as an aside, the presenter makes a very inaccurate statement about the award saying it was the first time it had been awarded to a non-Soviet citizen.

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1. Who am I?

Standartenfuhrer Max Otto von Stierlitz (Russian: Шти́рлиц, IPA: [ˈʂtʲirlʲɪt͡s])

I hope this will be easy , so to make it a bit more difficult, here are two additional questions:

2. What is my real name?

Stierlitz is the cover name for a Soviet superspy Colonel (Макси́м Макси́мович Иса́ев), whose "real" name is Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov (Все́волод Влади́мирович Владимиров

3. What was my accomplishment as a spy during the Great Patriotic War for which I obtained the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union?

Not positive on this one... have searched and searched. Anyhow, going to guess it was his mission of making sure the peace efforts of Himmler, etc., in the last weeks of the war failed.

I thought this interesting though:

According to his personal assistant Alexei Chernayev, Leonid Brezhnev was a devoted fan of Seventeen Moments of Spring, and watched the entire series some twenty times.^[23] Author Anthony Olcott claimed that it was rumored Brezhnev moved meetings of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in order not to miss episodes.^[24]

In 1976, director Lioznova, cinematographer Piotr Kataev and lead actors Tikhonov and Leonid Bronevoy received the Russian SFSR's Vasilyev Brothers' State Prize for their work on the television series.^[28]

In 1982, after watching another re-run of all the episodes, Brezhnev was exceptionally moved: his bodyguard Vladimir Medvedev recalled the Soviet premier inquired about the true identity of 'Stierlitz' for days afterwards, and wanted to award the agent the title Hero of the Soviet Union,^[29] a version of events corroborated by Chernayev; the latter added that when the premier learned Stierlitz was fictional, he ordered to award Tikhonov with the parallel civilian order, Hero of Socialist Labor.^[23] Composer Mikael Tariverdiev's wife Vera recounted that Brezhnev decided to bestow honors on other members of the crew and cast; nine years after the series' first broadcast, her husband received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for his contribution to it.^[30] During that year, director Lioznova and actorRostislav Plyatt received the Order of the October Revolution; Oleg Tabakov, Leonid Bronevoy and Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev were given the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and Yekaterina Gradova was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples.^[31][32]

In 23 December 2009, two weeks after his passing away, Tikhonov was posthumously awarded the Russian Federal Security Service Medal for Support in Combat, as a tribute to his portrayal of Stierlitz.^[33]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Tikhonov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz

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OH NUTS! You're absolutely correct! Another MAJOR senior moment! My DEEPEST apologies. With Jim's permission, I'd suggest you have a redo... just scratch this one like it never happened and you ask another... again if that's okay with Jim and the others.

Many many apologies to you and the other players! Don't know what I was thinking... I happened to see it, it rang a responsive chord in this faulty brain of mine and I went running without even thinking. Sigh. Guess I'd better start checking out retirement homes!

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Russian Special Forces Spetsnaz sleeve patch.

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Possibly the Order of the North Star... here's one I found which has a base that looks the same other than being in a different color... which, if the same with many other countries is simply a manufacturer's variation of the cases.

http://www.google.co...=1t:429,r:1,s:0

Seems to have the same shape, marks of the balls finials, etc.

Hoping this helps but I'm sure someone with more knowledge in the area of Swedish ODM's will jump in soon.

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The Karlshorst building

http://www.museum-karlshorst.de/en/about-us/the-historic-location.html

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The only thing I've been able to come up with is to do with Berlin. Bersarin (comes up Berzarin in most references on the web) was first Soviet commandant of the Soviet sector of Berlin... eventually East Berlin. He did much to get things up and running, help the citizens of the city, even down to getting cultural and sporting activities going again. Zhukov of course conquered Berlin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Berzarin

But still don't know what the exact answer is.

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QUESTION 100

Born in the year when the second world war broke out I would die 24 years later.

Before I turned 20 I would get to the USSR where I would stay for three years - I was rather disullioned.

I would remain a near nobody for a year and a half after leaving the USSR, till one day that would cast me in infamy and shroud me in conspiracy.

1) What is my full name? Lee Harvey Oswald (Born 10/18/1939 - Died 11/24/1963)

2) What was the nature of my stay in the USSR? He was a defector.

3) In which city did I live and where did I work in the USSR? Minsk as a lathe operator at the Gorizont (Horizon) Electronics Factory which made radios, televisions, military and space electronics.

4) What did I write about life in USSR? Disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, Oswald notifies the U.S. Embassy that he wishes to return to America. He writes in his diary, "The work is drab. The money I get has nowhere to be spent. As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in."

5) What did I do that would make me infamous and shroud me in conspiracy? Assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

6) How did I die? Shot in the Police loading garage in Dallas by Jack Ruby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

Good hunting!!

Jim

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You nailed it Christophe... #99 is now all yours! :jumping:

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Question #98:

A good thing peta didn't exist in the soviet union during ww2.

The plan often backfired.

Tanks alot for the food.

To whom does this question refer and what is their story?

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