President Jimmy Carter announces that according to American intelligence, the Soviets completed their preparations for an intervention in Poland

Quand

9 déc. 1980

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

54.06° N, 15.93° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Karlino oil eruption.

President Jimmy Carter announces that according to American intelligence, the Soviets completed their preparations for an intervention in Poland. On the same day, Karlino oil eruption,

Oil well eruption in Karlino, Poland

The Karlino oil eruption was an oil well blowout that took place on 9 December 1980, near Karlino, a town located in Pomerania in northern Poland, near the Baltic Sea coast. The eruption and the fire that followed it put an end to the hope of Poland becoming a "second Kuwait". It took more than a month for Polish, Soviet and Hungarian firefighters to completely extinguish the fire.

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