How it was 11/22/97 (1997)

Newsreel: a demonstration on Red Square on May 1, 1983, the leaders of the party and state on the podium of the mausoleum.

Fragment of the speech by Leonid Brezhnev.

At the 19th Congress of the Komsomol in May 1982.

Fragments of the film "Battleship Potemkin".

The widow of the captain of the third rank of Sablin Nina Sablina is reading a letter from her husband on November 7, 1975 (synchronously).

The former sailor of the anti-submarine ship "Storozhevoy" Alexander Shein tells about the beginning of the service, about Valery Sablin and relations with him, about the proposal of Sablin To join him, about the further actions of Sablin and his appeal to the officers and sailors, about the reaction of the sailors to the events taking place, about the arrest of the commander Ship, the goal pursued by Sablin, the course of the ship and the possible plans of Sablin in the event of persecution, the bombardment and bombardment of the ship with Sea and air by the forces of the Baltic Fleet, the release of the commander of the ship and the arrest of Sablin, his further fate, the course of the investigation, the charges and the verdict.

Commander of the Baltic Fleet in 1975, Admiral Anatoly Klosov talks about his actions after receiving information about the events on the Watchtower, Sablin's refusal to obey his orders (synchronously).

It sounds like a magnetic recording of Sablin's speech about the aims of the revolutionary speech at the Watchtower, for broadcast.

Former torpedoist "Watchtower" Vyacheslav Nekushev talks about the management of the ship (synchronously).

The former chief of staff of the division of small missile ships, Alexander Bobrakov, said that he received an order to detain and possibly destroy Watchtower.

Photos of Valery Sablin.