Cold Peace Rescue for Russian Icebreaker

The Russian icebreaker Krasin leads US relief ships to McMurdo.

For the first time in recent history, and unthinkable in the Cold War, a Russian ice-breaker was asked to rescue a team of 1,000 American scientists cut off from supplies in a remote research base in the Antarctic. The American plea came as food and fuel shortages threatened to halt ...

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