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The Sea is Only Knee Deep - Volume 2 Paperback – June 25, 2013

by Paulina Zelitsky (Author),‎ Paul Weinzweig (Contributor)

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This is an authentic first-hand story of a young female Soviet defector who made a choice to risk her life rather than to become a KGB informant and honey trap in Havana during the publicly unknown second Cuban missile crisis beginning in 1969. The authors draw back the Cuban/Soviet curtain on an undisclosed Soviet navy nuclear confrontation lasting 20 years with the United States and on the cover-up by the American Government of an aggressive undercover spy war with Fidel Castro - the world's most idiosyncratic, brilliant, but obsessively vindictive megalomaniacal leader. Standing at the crossroads of autobiography and history, The Sea is Only Knee Deep presents an intimate and bittersweet portrait of the coming of age of a fiercely independent Jewish girl, raised by her father, a former sea captain, in the Black Sea city of Odessa, Ukraine during and after Stalin’s last decade of Soviet power. Interwoven with her childhood narrative of a streetwise kid, deftly dodging the suffocating strictures of Communist tyranny, is a Cold War thriller arising from Paulina’s personal involvement with a top secret Soviet submarine base in Cuba. This submarine base operated out of Cuba: in Cienfuegos, at the military airport for Soviet bombers with nuclear warhead missiles in San Antonio de Los Baños, and at the world's largest Soviet SIGINT (Radio/Electronic/Satellite Spy Center) operated in Lourdes, Cuba from the late sixties up to 1992-2001. The base was home to a fleet of Soviet nuclear subs armed with ballistic and cruise missiles with nuclear warheads aimed at America. Concealed from the Western public and hidden beneath the ocean, this Soviet submarine base served as a major nuclear arms missile platform in the backyard of the United States where it operated secretly and in defiance of international treaties for over two decades. Domestic political considerations during the Vietnam War kept the US Government silent. Paulina was not involved in the operation of these facilities, only in their design. When in 1971 KGB attempted to force her hand, she defected with her two young children to Canada in an incredible feat of courage and audacity. Paulina returned to the Soviet Union in 1987 to help to forge the cooperation between Soviet and American submarine builders during Perestroika. Paulina concludes in her arguments that the main strategy of the current Russian Government is to attain global dominion, naturally prioritizing it in the Arctic which is absolutely strategically important for Russia in military and economic terms. The "sabre-rattling" strategy adopted by the current Russian government not just in Arctic but also in the Gulf of Mexico is directed toward military intimidation of their Arctic neighbors in order to maintain full military control and develop Arctic resources without interference from other Arctic neighbors. The nuclear deterrent cycle is about to repeat once again with Russian government rebuilding its previously abandoned military bases in Cuba and once again secretly sending its navy equipped with nuclear missiles to Cuba. The threatening rhetoric promising nuclear alienation in Russian state media and television is a planned Cold War confrontation intended to calm down the objections to actions of Russians in the Arctic. The ambitions of current Russian state are global and totalitarian and the methods correspond to envisioned objectives.

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Young female marine coastal engineer from Odessa, Black Sea, Ukraine who defected in 1971 with her two small children from the Soviet submarine base in Cuba and made a new life and a successful professional career in Canada.

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Series: The Sea is Only Knee Deep
Paperback: 310 pages
Publisher: @2013 Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig (June 25, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0991853849
ISBN-13: 978-0991853847
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,361,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2658 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > Europe > Russia
- #18113 in Books > History > Asia > Russia
- #22084 in Books > History > World > Women in History

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A Winner in Multiple Categories

ByR. J. Archeron October 13, 2017

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The Sea is Only Knee Deep (Volumes 1 & 2) is the amazing chronology of the author’s journey from childhood in cold war Russia to design engineer in Cuba to political refugee in Canada. Ms. Zelitsky’s memoirs include heart-warming stories from her childhood, tales of international intrigue and some chilling revelations about the involvement of the Soviet Union (and now Russia) in the political affairs of Cuba.

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Reads like more like an action-thriller than mere memoirs. Exciting and well-told story of an incredible experience.

ByJuliaon July 29, 2013

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Volume 2 picks up the pace and the intrigue from Volume 1, adding deep color and intensely building suspense. The author is a true adventurer, seeking a better life for her family. The seemingly unbelievable and riveting drama she vividly recalls of her real-life adventure could only come out of a truly uncommon time and place.

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An amazing true story written by an amazingly courageous woman

ByAmazon Customeron December 23, 2015

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“The Sea is Only Knee Deep” is a story of personal bravery and Soviet politics and intrigues. If not for being born and raised in the same country (I was born in Moscow while the author was born in Odessa), I would think that the facts in this book (two books actually, since it’s published in two volumes) are exaggerated. Yet, unfortunately, they’re not. The Soviet Union, as it was called then, was exactly the country the author describes: anti-Semitic, oppressive, and obsessed with world dominance -- in short, an ugly place to be raised in.
Despite that, Zelitsky becomes a strong woman with a sense of dignity and a strong desire to make life better for herself and her children. The second part of the book reads like a political thriller in which the heroin overcomes all obstacles and despite the odds wins her freedom. All in all, “The Sea is Only Knee Deep” is an amazing true story written by an amazingly courageous woman.

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