This video traces a Soviet S-class submarine from World War II, most closely associated with S-56, moving through history rather than memory. In Russian narratives, boats like this are framed as symbols of endurance and wartime heroism. Western naval analysis, however, focused on something far more consequential. Extended redeployments and sustained operations far from home ports proved that even conventionally powered submarines could disrupt maritime logistics on a strategic scale. After 1945,