Nikita Khrushchev: Last News

James Bond film Thunderball.At the time British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refused to reveal the details surrounding the disappearance of the naval diver during a goodwill visit by the Soviet leadership.Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was on board the ship for meetings with Sir Anthony Eden.But an international spying scandal blew up less than a week later when the Soviets protested to the British government about a frogman spotted near the Soviet ship Ordzhonikidze and its escorting destroyers during their visit.The diver who was brutally killed was identified as Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb who was believed to have been on a secret spying mission for which permission hadn't been granted.Crabb, a Royal Navy Volunteer Reservist, had been awarded the George Medal for removing limpet mines from British warships during the Second World War and an OBE for mine clearance at Livorno in Italy.A colourful character who enjoyed a drink he was known to be short of money, and had told friends he was going to be paid 60 guineas "to take a dekko at the Russian bottoms".When he was officially reported missing by the Admiralty on April 29, 1956, it was claimed he had been testing secret underwater equipment a few miles down the coast from Portsmouth.The official statement said he had died following a test dive at Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, on the Hampshire coast but it later was revealed that he was on spying mission for MI6 - unbeknown to the prime minister. The statement by the Admiralty was an attempt to cover up the mission but when the Soviets claimed to have seen a frogman close to their Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze Sir Anthony Eden was forced to speak out.

Ben Croll Premiering out of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, the impressionistic essay film “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” refracts the plot against Patrice Lumumba through a kaleidoscopic lens. Cutting between historical footage of the UN General Assembly and home movies shot in liberation-era Congo, weaving in a diverse set of perspectives, and setting the pace to a non-stop rhythm of bebop, rumba and classic jazz, director Johan Grimonprez evokes the euphoria of post-colonial possibility and the heartbreak of the dashed hopes and violent reprisals that would ensue.

The current invasion of Ukraine by Russia with its appalling loss of life and destruction of cities seems steeped in another era. From the end of the Second World War until 1991 a Cold War, existed between the US and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, in the Eastern and Western Blocs.

Olympic gold-medal winning squad, a seventh-placed Ballon d'Or finish under his belt and heading to a World Cup.But the man since dubbed 'The Russian Pele' never reached the 1958 competition. Instead, he was sentenced to 12 years in the Gulag for rape.An allegation was made by a Soviet Minister after Streltsov had left the USSR's training camp for the finals in Sweden to attend a party.

https://t.co/Cgk2jbGl5KThe oddities of history. Sergei Khrushchev dies.