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Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy
Naval jack (top) and ensign of the Soviet Navy
Military unit
Unit nameВоенно-морской флот СССР
Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR
Founded1917 � 1991
CountrySoviet Union

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The Soviet Navy ( , literally "Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR") was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean from North America to Western Europe. Such a conflict never occurred, but the Soviet Navy still saw considerable action during the Cold War.

The Soviet Navy was divided into four major fleets, the Northern, Pacific, Black Sea, and Baltic Fleets, and commanded separately, the Leningrad Naval Base. The Caspian Flotilla was a smaller force operating in the land-locked Caspian Sea. The Mediterranean Squadron drew its units from the Black Sea, Baltic, and Northern Fleets; the Indian Ocean Squadron primarily from the Pacific Fleet. Other components included Naval Aviation, Naval Infantry (the Soviet equivalent of marines), and Coastal Artillery.

According to a 1980 Time article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy, Strategic Rocket Forces and the Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

Most of the Soviet Navy was reformed into the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Christian Science Monitor--He learned a key lesson from his days in fighting the -Soviet- occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. That war “bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt,” bin Laden said, and Al Qaeda can also bleed “America to the - Date : Fri, 06 May 2011 19:25:55 GMT+00:00
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AFP--But Pakistan has never been fully trusted by either Kabul or Washington, which accuse its powerful military of fostering the Afghan Taliban it spawned during the 1980s resistance to the -Soviet- occupation of Afghanistan. The senior Pakistani officia - Date : Mon, 09 May 2011 12:45:00 GMT+00:00
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