00:00The biggest warship ever planned never touched the ocean.
00:03Stalin ordered these giants in 1938.
00:06Soviet dominance was the goal.
00:08The Sovetsky Soyuz class was born.
00:11Each ship carried massive 406-millimeter guns.
00:15Here's the insane part.
00:16Just one gun turret weighed 2,300 tons.
00:20That's heavier than an entire World War I destroyer.
00:24Then Germany invaded in 1941.
00:26Everything changed overnight.
00:29The USSR couldn't finish the ships, so they melted the hulls down instead.
00:34Those steel frames became tank armor.
00:37The most powerful fleet ever designed never sailed.
00:41It drove into battle on land.
00:44Historians call this the opportunity cost of prestige weapons.
00:49Build the biggest.
00:50Win nothing.
00:51Lose everything.
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