Word: kronstadt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costly investment in cruisers, the Russians have decided on essentially a submarine force (500 boats) as the heart of their navy. The sub is basically a defense weapon, designed to deny the seas to an enemy. As any tourist can see, there is no military shipbuilding at the massive Kronstadt yards near Leningrad. The ways are jammed instead with commercial shipping; four cruisers of the Sverdlov class lie there still uncompleted. In tune with the defensive concept is the fact that the Russians have devised the most deadly mines yet known in warfare. One navy officer told me that...
...century Tauride Palace was filled with artillery, machine guns, field kitchens. All the gates in the high grillwork fence were bolted except a small wicket gate at the extreme left, where we entered, single file. Each ticket of admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian...