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In reply to the discussion: In Sept. of 1967, my family crossed the Atlantic on the SS United States. I saved the menus. [View all]cbayer
The territory around Svalbard/spitsbergen, is maybe one of the most beautifully places on earth - at least in the summertime.. In the wintertime it have a tendency to be rather cold up there. (Svalbard is the archipelago - Spitsbergen is the main city on the iceland, and where the government facilities at Svalbard in centered. The other place where people live is at Pyramiden - a russian settlement who have been there for ages. After the end of the cold war, and the breakup of Soviet union, it was more or less disbanded - and most of the then city is now just empty shells of the older glory.. The Putin regime have ben trying to get more people to settle down there - and even tried to bully the Norwegian government to let parts of Svalbard be russian - the government of Norway politely refused - and pointed out that Russia already in 1926 had accepted Norwegian sovereign rules over all of Svalbard... (The Svalbard tractat of 1926).. The Putin regime admitted it was nothing they could do, and accepted the old rules - instead of any new rules, who possible would have ended badly for the russians..