China learnt from Soviet Navy instead.

新中国海军转而学习苏联。

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At the same time the Soviet Navy got a little bit huge but very powerful ships.

与此同时，苏联海军拥有了一些巨大强劲的舰艇。

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The Varyag was originally built for the Soviet navy but construction was interrupted by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

“瓦良格号”最初为前苏联海军制造，但是在1991年由于前苏联解体而中断建造进程。

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In 1986, the U.S. Navy had replaced the Royal Navy as Number One Fleet, and badly outgunned the Soviets, but the Soviet Navy still posed a significant challenge to Western dominance of the seas.

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In 1988, after the Toshiba Machine Company transferred such tools to the USSR enabling the Soviet navy to fabricate vastly improved submarine propellers, Congress enacted legislation that would both prohibit imports into the United States of products manufactured by companies violating COCOM rules and bar such firms from awards of U.S. government contracts.

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But unlike two other ex-Soviet carriers in China that ended up as theme parks, this one was taken to a navy shipyard where, in 2005, it got a telltale coat of Chinese military paint.

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