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[[Crazy Ivan]] was a  Russian submarine manoeuvre in the Cold War, popularised in the ''The Hunt for  Red October'', in which a rogue Soviet sub-commander from Dundee would unexpectedly turn hard left<ref>Ironic, isn't it.</ref> to clear his baffles iand find out if he was being followed.  

The sudden, unexpected nature of the manoeuvre led to the term being popularised in the [[conference-calling]] world to denote the practice of maliciously taking another participant ''off'' mute into reveal her [[keyboard clatter]] and revealing to the world she has tuned out of the conference call and is sitting broadside and defenceless to such [[conference call ambush]] as anyone else on the call cares to mount.