Jad Abumrad
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6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And were there people in there?
So the problem was we were keeping the whole thing secret, and that allowed the Soviet government to do the same thing.
They probably didn't want the embarrassment of acknowledging that they'd lost this really important submarine.
They also didn't want to derail arms talks that we were having with them.
And for a bunch of other reasons, they just pretended it never happened.
But they had to say something to the families of the sailors who died on that submarine.
Here's a widow of the second in command on the K-129.
Her name is Irina Zhuravina.
And a while ago, she was interviewed on Russian television.
She's showing the death certificate for her husband, and then she reads it.
I've wanted to know for 30 years who is the author of this horrible, inhumane document.
They wrote cause of death presumed dead on the death certificate?
Yeah.
Doesn't even make any sense.
And that's cruel.
Yeah.
In this context, it's cruelty.
That's what she's saying.
Giving an answer that says nothing can be worse than just silence.
This is Radiolab.
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