The Persecutor from tasu Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 5 min 44 sec
✓ Published: 05-Nov-2010

Description:
On September 3, 1971, Soviet Naval Radio Operator Sergey Kourdakov jumped from the Soviet trawler Elagin and swam to his freedom in the stormy waters of the Tasu Sound off the coast of British Columbia. His daring escape captured the attention and the imagination of millions of Canadians and Americans. In the context of the Cold War, he symbolized everything that was wrong with Communism and the Soviet Union, and everything that was right about the human spirit, and about the West.nnWithin weeks