Legacy Of “Friendly Neutrality” Goals Of Soviet Policy

... them”, at a time when Turkey was prepared to be satisfied with remilitarization of the Straits [Russia and the Black Sea Straits… 1999: 422]. The fate of the Conference was decided by a compromise Litvinov reached with the British 31 . Ultimately, the USSR secured an opportunity to bring its Black Sea Naval Fleet to the Mediterranean in times of peace and impose severe restrictions on the possibility for non-Black Sea nations to deploy their vessels in the Black Sea. Meanwhile, Stalin was not perfectly content with the Montreux Convention,...