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[[Image:Krivak1-DNSC9401276.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Soviet anti-submarine missile frigate, NATO-designation Krivak-1, ca. 1980]]

[[Image:Krivak1-DNSC9401276.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Soviet anti-submarine missile frigate, NATO-designation Krivak-1, ca. 1980]]

The '''Red Banner mutiny''' refers to an event which took place on the night of November 7, 1975, in which a Soviet warship was seized by several members of the ship's command and sailed to Swedish waters in what was perceived at the time as a stunning attempt to defect to the West.

The '''Red Banner mutiny''' refers to an event which took place on the night of November 7, 1975, in which a [[Soviet]] warship was seized by several members of the ship's command and sailed to [[Swedish]] waters in what was perceived at the time as a stunning attempt to defect to the West.

==The mutiny==

==The mutiny==

The ship involved was an anti-submarine frigate of the ''Burevestnik''-class, known to NATO as a ''Krivak''-1; the vessel's name was ''Storozhevoy'', after a Russian word meaning "vigilant".  The ship's political officer was Captain 3rd-rank Valery Mikhailovich Sablin, who according to family members was a committed communist who believed in the ideals set by Lenin in the revolution of 1917.  Contrary to the popular report of an intentional defection, it was later revealed that Sablin's plan was to seize the ship, sail it to the Gulf of Finland and then on to Leningrad, where he would use the ship's radio to broadcast to the people the corruption and hypocrisy of the Soviet system under [[Leonid I. Brezhnev]], and to cause the people to rise up and restore Leninist values.

The ship involved was an anti-submarine frigate of the ''Burevestnik''-class, known to [[NATO]] as a ''Krivak''-1; the vessel's name was ''Storozhevoy'', after a Russian word meaning "vigilant".  The ship's political officer was Captain 3rd-rank Valery Mikhailovich Sablin, who according to family members was a committed [[communist]] who believed in the ideals set by [[Lenin]] in the [[revolution of 1917]].  Contrary to the popular report of an intentional defection, it was later revealed that Sablin's plan was to seize the ship, sail it to the Gulf of Finland and then on to [[Leningrad]], where he would use the ship's radio to broadcast to the people the corruption and hypocrisy of the Soviet system under [[Leonid I. Brezhnev]], and to cause the people to rise up and restore Leninist values.

On the night of November 7, 1975 ''Storozhevoy'' was inport at Riga, Latvia S.S.R. and most of the crew was ashore.  Sablin and a few conspirators took control of the ship, locking remaining crewmen in one of the spaces onboard; ''Storozhevoy'' then cast off and cleared the channel for the Baltic.  One of the crewman managed to escape and swim to shore to sound the alarm; by then the ship was an hour out.   

On the night of November 7, 1975 ''Storozhevoy'' was inport at Riga, Latvia S.S.R. and most of the crew was ashore.  Sablin and a few conspirators took control of the ship, locking remaining crewmen in one of the spaces onboard; ''Storozhevoy'' then cast off and cleared the channel for the Baltic.  One of the crewman managed to escape and swim to shore to sound the alarm; by then the ship was an hour out.   

==Links==

==Links==

*[http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1135.htm Federation of American Scientists; listing of the ''Krivak''-class warships]

*[http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1135.htm Federation of American Scientists; listing of the ''Krivak''-class warships]