Desc: Suolis: Directed by Giedre Zickyte. With Walter Cronkite, Simas Kudirka, Richard Nixon, Ralph W. Eustis. In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.