"Tashkent?! Do you have any comment on the allegations you are not, in fact, a soviet ship, but an Italian cruiser related to Pola and Zara? Tashkent! Do you have any comment on your relationship with Pola, the naval base stripper!? Tashkent!"
Much of the Soviet Navy was Italian designed, or based on Italian designs anyway. Even old Kirov-class cruisers were based on Italian plans and Italian turbines designs. which the Russians messed up at first, but got better at as they made more of them.
Gangut was built from British designed parts, even though she looks more like the Italian dreadnoughts.
ithekro said: Gangut was built from British designed parts, even though she looks more like the Italian dreadnoughts.
A lot of Battleships (especially from nations that did not have a big ship building industry) built at that time were somehow related to the British after all, considering that the British were the first ones to build Dreadnought style Battleships after all.
A lot of Battleships (especially from nations that did not have a big ship building industry) built at that time were somehow related to the British after all, considering that the British were the first ones to build Dreadnought style Battleships after all.
Italy, Britain, and the United States more or less conjured up ships based on the "All Big Gun Battleship" idea themselves. Italy had the idea first from Vittorio Emanuele Cuniberti, but it took a while to fund. The British has the largest means of production, and a burning need to always be on top of the naval arms game. The United States took the idea an ran with it early, but it took longer to build USS South Carolina than HMS Dreadnought. The Japanese also had a design for this type of ship, but they were getting their guns from Britain, thus had a bottleneck to construction and changed what would have been their first "All Big Gun" battleship into what is now called a "Semi-Dreadnoughts" Satsuma and Aki. As well as the later Kawachi class battleships (which had two different caliber 12 inch guns due to cost issues).
Russia's Gangut-class designs were inspired by Vittorio Emanuele Cuniberti's ideal design.
Comrade Tiny One was bribed, but Comrade Midget One is being discriminated against, Shu. Her Soviet era has not come yet, shu. Yet she likely served with Comrade Tiny One in the Pacific after the war while Czarist Battleship remained in the Baltic Sea and Comrade Speedy One was sunk in 1942 in the Black Sea.
Surprised that no one mentioned it, but pizza is pronounced as 'pittsa' in Russian. Tashkent NOT BUSTED
Pizza did not exist in USSR, though. At the very least, not as proletarian food: there was no recipe of it in the Книга о вкусной и здоровой пище (Tasty and Healthy Food Book - the bible of soviet approved-by-the-Party food recipes, first published in 1939 with revised editions coming out until the very decay of USSR).
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So you like them!?
You do, don't you!?Suspicions DeepenedAs a further example, your Kongou was born in England, but does she not carry the pride of a Japanese ship within her?It's only natural that I think of the Soviet Union as my motherland, is it not?There have been people saying about your insistence on a Soviet revival that "For someone born in Italy, isn't that odd?". Do you have any thoughts on this matter?You're not wrong there!It's not Piza. It's Pizza.I.e. the correct way of saying it, rather than the Japanese.So it's not like you're a fan of either piza or pasta, right?I'd like to know the details about your origins, Tashkent-san! Is that okay with you!?Ahhhhhh!!Not a chance.AOBAAAA!What folly. I was born as a Soviet ship, fought for the Soviets and sunk as a Soviet ship.Tashkent-san!
Sorry to bother you at this busy time!
I'm Aoba from the Naval Base press corps!Huh?Tashkent-san!?