Soviet sailors enjoy good old Portsmouth knees-up during Cold War | Nostalgia
The Russian sailors were made welcome across the city for the visit of the destroyer Obraztsovy in 1976.
But it wasn’t all plain sailing.
As their ship arrived a group of protesters campaigning to allow Russian Jews to emigrate, demonstrated on the Round Tower and later in Guildhall Square as senior officers were received in the Guildhall.
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