Better death than life in the USSR: 43 years ago, a waitress escaped from a Soviet cruise ship and sailed for 40 minutes to Australia
In January 1979, USSR citizen Liliana Gasinskaya, being a waitress on the Soviet cruise ship Leonid Sobinov, while the ship was parked in the port of Sydney in only a red bikini, crawled through the porthole, jumped into the water and swam for 40 minutes to the Australian coast,...