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Chapter Eighteen
Morskaja Pristan, St. Petersburg, Russia/November 28
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Restructuring the nation has brought about a decay in the capabilities of all our military forces. But it is the navy that has suffered most. The industrial capacity needed for the building of new units for the Fleet has been preempted by less patriotic causes and Russian prestige suffers. Therefore the ships of the Fleet must be zealously guarded.
VOYENNO-MORSKOY-FLOT, RUSSIAN NAVY JOURNAL
The Protected Anchorage at the mouth of the Neva River was crowded with ships. Russian navy craft had been assembling in the inner harbor. Once they arrived, they did not depart. Admiral Eduard Aleyev stared angrily through the fogged window of the recreation hall at the snow falling gently on the mothballed ships that once had been his pride.
The missile cruiser Slava, which once had hosted President George Bush of the United States, was here, moored hard by the never-commissioned aircraft carder Oktyabrskaya Revo-

 
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