There's a book[1] written by a Russian guy in the US about his efforts to escape from the USSR by... swimming the ocean! It's a highly entertaining book, althou

There's a book[1] written by a Russian guy in the US about his efforts to escape from the USSR by... swimming the ocean! It's a highly entertaining book, although there's a chapter in which he describes his incarceration in a Soviet mental facility, and that one is pretty gruesome. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Inclined-Escape-Yuri-Vetokhin/dp/B0006OX6UG http://www.amazon.com/Inclined-Escape-Yuri-Vetokhin/dp/B0006...