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Russia Had Dreams of Building a Massive Battleship Fleet
The Soviet Union failed to build much of a navy before World War II, but Josef Stalin had dreams not all that different from Hitler s of building a fleet of powerful battleships.
A reoccurring theme among dictators, despots and totalitarian regimes is to build a massive fleet of powerful warships. China s People s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is currently engaged in an effort to build aircraft carriers as part of its world-class navy, while the Islamic Republic of Iran has been rumored to harbor plans to develop its own aircraft carriers.
However, before the Second World War, it was the battleship that was the envy of the world. It was Germany s Kaiser Wilhelm II s building of the High Seas Fleet that pushed the UK closer to France and Russia, while Nazi Germany attempted to rebuild a High Seas Fleet that was to be made up of massive battleships. Imperial Japan also sought to build such large battle wagons, before refoc