Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "USS Omaha - Guide 203" video.

The ship after her stint in the Red Navy: "Kill me, please!"
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@normanlesley1867 As I understand it the Revenge class Battleship was returned [after the Russians dragged their feet over the matter] with the turrets nearly rusted in place... due to lack of use. In any event an ironic way to treat, what was a more potent Capital Ship than anything the Russian fleet possessed.
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@gyaps_da_best5835 Aye. Given what the pre-soviet Imperial Russian Navy had planned, the Soviets were laughably underequipped. (one Tsarist era design even had 16" guns) Without the brutal revolution & civil war, it is interesting to think what the Russians might have had to hand by the '40'x.
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@gyaps_da_best5835 Not so much "Russiophobia" (only the gutter press espouses that), as mistrust resulting from the Cold War, and the prior 'Great Game'.
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