The Soviets always thought of the Black Sea as being there own personal lake.

We always knew that our freedom of navigation exercises weren't going to be met in a friendly way.
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Does anyone know the details/outcome of this incident? I wouldn't think it worked out all that well for Bezzavetnyy. When 3300 tons decides to get in a shoving match with 9600 tons, it typically doesn't.

Jane

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Nah. The Soviets didn't like us in the Black Sea. We went in there from time to time just to prove that we could and would.

They'd bump us around. We'd file complaints. They'd ignore them. Typical cold war stuff.

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USN should've had sunk those dirty ruskies.


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