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"[having just pressed the torpedo self-destruct; to weapons officer] Now, understand, Commander: The torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. [shows CIA ID] And I... was never here."
"Invisible. Silent. Stolen."
"The hunt is on."
"Sean Connery - Captain Marko Ramius"
"Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan"
"Scott Glenn - Commander Bart Mancuso"
"Sam Neill - Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin"
"James Earl Jones - Admiral James Greer"
"Joss Ackland - Soviet Ambassador to the US Andrei Lysenko"
"Richard Jordan - US National Security Advisor Dr. Jeffrey Pelt"
"Peter Firth - Red October political officer Ivan Yurevich Putin"
"Tim Curry - Red October chief medical officer Dr. Petrov"
"Courtney B. Vance - Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones"
"Stellan Skarsgård - VK Konovalov skipper Captain Tupolev"
"Jeffrey Jones - Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler"
"Timothy Carhart - Bill Steiner"
"Larry Ferguson - Chief of the Boat Watson - USS Dallas"
"Fred Thompson - Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise"
"In terms of logic and politics, The Hunt for Red October is most peculiar, but it's not without its entertaining moments. It's an elegy for those dear, dark, terrible days of the cold war, when it was either them or us, and before the world had become so thoroughly fractured that it's no longer possible to know exactly who the thems are."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.