All 50 Uses of
Soviet Union
in
The Hunt for Red October
- When the Soviets first occupied Lithuania in 1940, the elder Ramius was instrumental in rounding up political dissidents, shop owners, priests, and anyone else who might have been troublesome to the new regime.†
Chpt 1.
- His father's prominence had made his current goal a possibility, and Marko planned to wreak his own vengeance on the Soviet Union, enough, perhaps, to satisfy the thousands of his countrymen who had died before he was even born.†
Chpt 1.
- Even in the finest clinic in the Soviet Union nothing could be done.†
Chpt 1. *
- This will let the imperialists know that they may not trifle with the men of the Soviet Navy, that we can approach their coast at the time of our choosing, and that they must respect the Soviet Union!†
Chpt 2.
- Only a few years before, the forty-hour week had been started in the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 2.
- In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.†
Chpt 2.
- The Konovalov had been built with the best sonar systems the Soviet Union had yet produced, copied closely from the French DUUV-23 and a bit improved, the factory technicians said.†
Chpt 2.
- The Party, he heard a hundred times before he was five, was the Soul of the People; the unity of Party, People, and Nation was the holy trinity of the Soviet Union, albeit with one segment more important than the others.†
Chpt 3.
- He did his duty for all Party organizations, and was always the first to volunteer for the menial tasks allotted to children aspiring to Party membership, which he knew was the only path to success or even comfort in the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 3.
- This experience—he waggled his finger seriously at the boy—taught him of the mindless corruption of the czarist regime and convinced him to join one of the first naval soviets when such action meant certain death at the hands of the czar's secret police, the okhrana.†
Chpt 3.
- He selected the Higher Naval School for Underwater Navigation, named for Lenin's Komsomol, VVMUPP, still the principal submarine school of the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 3.
- She was a November-class attack submarine, the first crude attempt by the Soviets to make a battleworthy long-range attack boat to threaten Western navies and lines of communication.†
Chpt 3.
- He was a member of the Party elite, so when Natalie had complained of abdominal pain, going to the Fourth Department clinic which served only the privileged had been a natural mistake—there was a saying in the Soviet Union: Floors parquet, docs okay.†
Chpt 3.
- Ramius is about the best the Soviets have, but Wilson's got a 688 boat.†
Chpt 4.
- "Then why don't the Soviets copy our screw designs?"†
Chpt 4.
- Okay, the Soviets have a new missile boat with a silent drive system.†
Chpt 4.
- If the Soviets were able to kill the president that quickly, the resulting disruption of the chain of command would give them ample time to take out the land-based missiles—there would be no one with authority to fire.†
Chpt 4.
- Padorin's navy-blue jacket was ablaze with ribbons and the gold star medal of the most coveted award in the Soviet Military, Hero of the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 5.
- Initially it was theorized that the Soviets had somehow staked out one particular route, that their submarines were able to follow it at high speed.†
Chpt 5.
- The Dallas was on Toll Booth station to monitor passing Russian subs, to watch the entrance to the passage the U.S. Navy was now calling Red Route One, and to listen for any external evidence of a new gadget that might enable the Soviets to run the ridge so boldly.†
Chpt 5.
- The nature and tempo of Soviet operations did not indicate a backing off, as seemed to be suggested by a pair of recent articles in Red Star and some intelligence sources inside the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 5.
- It would not be unprecedented for the Soviets not to let their field commanders know what's going on in Moscow, of course, but on the whole I do not see a clear picture," Ryan concluded.†
Chpt 5.
- When it became clear that the colonel could not be extracted from the Soviet Union, he himself urged CARDINAL to betray him.†
Chpt 6.
- Four separate times he had been offered extraction from the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 6.
- "You've just told us that the Soviets have built a missile submarine that's supposed to be hard for our men to locate.†
Chpt 6.
- Moreover, if he had threatened to launch his birds, he would have to consider the possibility that the Soviets would enlist our assistance to locate and sink him.†
Chpt 6.
- The Soviets have the same number.†
Chpt 6.
- That seems most unlikely, sir, and again, the Soviets would be well advised to inform us and enlist our aid.†
Chpt 6.
- That would be the only rational thing for them to do, and while I do not regard the Soviets as entirely rational by our standards, they are rational by their own.†
Chpt 6.
- The Soviets train people to do their jobs by rote, with as little thinking as possible.†
Chpt 6.
- These will be armed with Harpoon air-to-surface missiles, and they'll be orbiting the Soviets in relays.†
Chpt 6.
- Next thing is, we'll have to talk to the Soviets about this.†
Chpt 6.
- The Soviets have a file on you.†
Chpt 6.
- As it is, though, if the crewmen want to go back home, we have to send them back, and then the Soviets will know we have the boat for sure.†
Chpt 7.
- If anything, I'd say the Soviets have the advantage.†
Chpt 7.
- Second, what if the Soviets did enlist American assistance, saying perhaps that a missile sub had been taken over by a mutinous crew of Maoist counterrevolutionaries—and then your navy detects a missile submarine racing down the North Atlantic towards the American coast.†
Chpt 7.
- The odds favor his not being detected there, and if the Soviets send the fleet after him, he's got the time and supplies to sit out there longer than they can maintain a force off our coast—both for technical and political reasons.†
Chpt 7.
- I gather that the Soviets will want to use the Kiev and Moskva groups inshore, with Kirov guarding them out to sea—but Kennedy's relocation will make them rethink that.†
Chpt 8.
- "I know that a weekend has just begun, and that the Soviet Union is a worker's paradise, but I expect that some of your country's managers may still be at work.†
Chpt 8.
- Hell, I doubt even the Soviets could.†
Chpt 8.
- And the Soviets would never notice the presence of a sub tender and three hundred submarine technicians there all of a sudden?†
Chpt 9.
- What were the Soviets up to? he wondered.†
Chpt 9.
- There were rumors about that, but in the Soviet Union there are always rumors.†
Chpt 9.
- There would be nothing the Soviet Union could do to prevent the operation, a few hundred miles off the American coast, three hundred miles from the United States' largest naval base.†
Chpt 9.
- He'd been led down this path like a schoolboy, forgetting that the American president had been a skilled courtroom tactician—not something that life in the Soviet Union prepares a man for—and knew all about legal tricks.†
Chpt 9.
- If the Soviets want anything back, they can bring action in admiralty court, which means the federal district court sitting in Norfolk, where, if the suit were successful—after the value of the salvaged property was determined, and after the U.S. Navy was paid a proper fee for its salvage effort, also determined by the court—the wreck would be returned to its rightful owners.†
Chpt 9.
- In a major war with the Soviets, NATO would use the Greenland—Iceland—United Kingdom SOSUS barrier as a huge tripwire, a burglar alarm system.†
Chpt 10.
- Navy Orions and air force Sentries had been shadowing them for days now, and the day before, he'd been told, the Soviets had sent an armed fighter from the Kiev to the nearest Sentry.†
Chpt 10.
- The Soviets could see that.†
Chpt 10.
- Suddenly Jameson looked at the Soviets.†
Chpt 10.
Definition:
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(Soviet Union) a former communist country that fought the cold war with the United States and which consisted of Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics; established 1922 and officially dissolved 31 December 1991