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Nobile. Samoilovich. Personal.
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Message begins, urgently request...
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No. Cancel. Cancel that.
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My dear Samoilovich.
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In the name of friendship...
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and those who are dead...
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I implore you to save the lives of my men.
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Samoilovich, if your ship
is capable of movement...
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I beg you, at any reasonable risk...
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proceed there and save them.
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Umberto Nobile.
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- Difficult decision?
- Yes. But no, not really.
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General, the facts were these.
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I did not know where they were.
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But I told you where they were!
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By then, the ice was on the move,
as much as 20 miles a day.
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I only knew where you had left them.
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Secondly, the ice was melting.
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Thaw followed by freeze-up.
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At such a time,
a ship which can't keep moving...
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can be caught and crushed
like a cardboard carton.
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Thirdly, my ship could only move
at half speed.
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My decision was to put back
to the nearest port.
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Unfortunately, before leaving Leningrad...
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I had taken on board an airplane...
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and...
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a hero.
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He wanted to try and take off
and see if he could find them.
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I agreed that if he should see them...
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within two days' sailing distance
of the Krassin...
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we would try to reach them.
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It was their own lives they were risking...
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and that is always seductive.