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Jan 25, 2024 · Item 1 of 2 Smoke and flames rise after a fire broke out at a large oil refinery in Tuapse, Russia in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released on January 25, 2024.
The capture. The Soviet tanker ‘Tuapse’, which had left Odessa in May 1954, was on its way to Shanghai carrying ten thousand tons of aviation fuel intended for the PLA Air Force. When it had ...
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Tuapse. The capture of the tanker Tuapse occurred on 23 June 1954, when a civilian Soviet ship was captured and confiscated by the Republic of China Navy in the high seas near the Philippines and the sailors were detained in Taiwan for various periods with three deaths, until the last four were released in 1988. [1][2]
- The Adversaries
- The Capture
- Controversy
- The Fate of The Crew
The Soviet Union and the Republic of China were not always enemies. In the second half of the 1930s, Moscow actively supported Chiang Kai-shek's ruling Kuomintang party, which was opposing Japanese aggression, by sending it financial support, weapons and military specialists. Later, however, the paths of the two countries fundamentally diverged. Th...
The Soviet tanker 'Tuapse', which had left Odessa in May 1954, was on its way to Shanghai carrying ten thousand tons of aviation fuel intended for the PLA Air Force. When it had almost reached its destination, it was intercepted by two Taiwanese destroyers. Officer Cui Changling, who took part in the operation to capture the tanker, fled to mainlan...
The Soviet Union immediately reacted to the incident. Moscow did not recognize the Taiwanese government and its note of protest was sent straight to the U.S. "It is perfectly apparent that the seizure of the Soviet tanker by a naval vessel in waters controlled by the U.S. Navy could only have been carried out by U.S. naval forces. In connection wit...
The American and Taiwanese special services, however, were in no hurry to meet Moscow's demands. They had their own plans for the Soviet sailors. The 49 crew were divided into groups of 10-15 each and immediately isolated from one another. Every day, they were subjected to psychological brainwashing in an attempt to get them to ask for political as...
Tuapse was a large center (native land) for the Shapsugs tribe [15] along other areas in Circassia, with about 10,000 speakers of the language living in Tuapse currently. The name of the town is itself Adyghe (literally meaning "two waters") [ 16 ] since Tuapse was part of historical Circassia and it became a part of Russia during the rule of Tsar Alexander I in 1801–1825.
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) focused on several ROC-held islands a few miles from the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
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Jan 1, 2020 · The detention of the tanker “Tuapse” in 1954 became a pretext for fierce debates and conflicts between Taiwan and the USSR at the UN. ... It is defined by the island's high degree of import ...
