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How a Sausage-Filled-Plane Crash Wiped Out 16 Soviet Admirals

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The 1981 Tu-104 crash killed 50 people: 44 passengers, including 28 officers of the Pacific Fleet, and six flight crew. The Soviet military initially assumed it was American sabotage and put all of its forces on high alert. As no American attack came and no saboteur emerged, the USSR eventually conceded that it must have been a tragic accident.

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How a Sausage-Filled-Plane Crash Wiped Out 16 Soviet Admirals

In 1981, the Soviet Navy lost 16 admirals in a single plane crash. In WWII, it only lost four admirals to military action.

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