immediately upon return to russia, many crew members were faced with disgrace from their superiors. one admiral told them "it would have been better if you'd gone down with your ship." olga, arkhipov's wife, even said "he didn't like talking about it, he felt they hadn't appreciated what they had gone through." each captain was required to present a report of events during the mission to the soviet defense minister, andrei grechko. grechko was infuriated with the crew's failure to follow the strict orders of secrecy after finding out they had been discovered by the americans. one officer even noted grechko's reaction, stating that he "upon learning that it was the diesel submarines that went to cuba, removed his glasses and hit them against the table in fury, breaking them into small pieces and abruptly leaving the room after that."