The Balashevo (Russian: БАЛАШЕВО) is a Soviet ship that was docked in Tokyo Bay in The Return of Godzilla.
History[]
Heisei Series[]
The Return of Godzilla[]
The ship contained on board controls for a nuclear missile satellite. While Godzilla was being attacked by the J.S.D.F. in the bay, he submerged himself. The resulting wake knocked the Balashevo into the harbor and disrupted some of its systems, the most crucially of which were the controls of the armed satellite. This triggered a countdown to fire the nuclear missile at Tokyo. The captain, who under government orders had earlier disabled the firing system, attempted to shut down the launch sequence. After squeezing through the broken doorway, the captain was killed in a small explosion before being able to stop the countdown. Eventually the nuclear missile was fired at Tokyo as a result.
Trivia[]
Kashirin exclaiming his intentions to launch the missile in the American version of The Return of Godzilla.
- In the American release of the film, Godzilla 1985, the sequence of the Balashevo crashing into the harbor is cut and Kashirin is portrayed as attempting to launch the nuclear missile instead of stopping it. This was done to portray the Russians as villainous aggressors due to Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at the time.