 The sailors of the "Potemkin" decide to take the battleship out from the port of Odessa to face the fleet of the Tsar.Just when battle seems inevitable, the sailors of the Tsarist squadron refuse to open fire, cheering and shouting to show solidarity with the mutineers and allowing the "Potemkin", flying the red flag, to pass between their ships.On the 20th anniversary of the first Russian revolution, the commemorative Commission of the Central Executive Committee decided to stage a number of performances dedicated to the revolutionary events of 1905.