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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
Would the Soviets risk taking an aircraft carrier into the Black Sea back then? With a NATO country controlling the lone passage in and out, they would run the risk of never getting the thing out of there. If something would have escalated to where the carrier was needed, the straight could be blocked and the carrier deemed useless in the Black Sea.
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Probably not, the Soviets didn't really have a full sized carrier til after the cold war ended.
the Carriers that they did have were posted to the med fleet and their Atlantic Fleet.
For the most part the Black Sea Fleet has been a heavy ASW fleet built around frigates and destroyers with a cruiser command vessel.