An item reported that the aircraft carrier USS Randolph which visited at that moment Rotterdam was followed as far as Hoek van Holland by the large Russian tug Agatan.(1) Immediately was a Dutch minesweeper sent which discovered that the Agatan stayed outside the Dutch territorial waters.
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1. Directly after the Second World War started the period 1946-1991 which became known as the Cold War between the Eastern or Communist Bloc (Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) and the Western Bloc (USA and the NATO allies). In this political and economic conflict with a (nuclear) arms race both sides tried to expand their influence for example in the Middle East.
