From Norway, Arnie and Newlin drive to Uppsala to visit friends and colleagues from their year leaving there in 1969–1970. From Sweden they fly to Helsinki, where they have several hours to rent a car and nearly miss their flight to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) when Arnie confused 13:00 for 3:00pm. They were delayed passing through border control because several guards were extremely interested in perusing their copy of Time magazine.
They felt comfortable enough to take the Leningrad metro because Arnold could read the Russian alphabet and knew a few phrases in Russian.
At their hotel, they befriended two young German guys who were touring the Soviet Union and encountering a lot of resentment from the animosities of World War II. The guys did not have meal tickets for the hotel restaurant and were not allowed to pay cash, but Arnie and Newlin had a surplus somehow, and gladly ordered a feast for the German kids.
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| The Winter Palace, Leningrad |
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| St. George's Hall in the Winter Palace |
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| The Winter Palace on the Neva River |
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| Arnie standing by a wrought iron fence of the Winter Palace |
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| Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood |
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