Completing capital ships in groups every two years would be difficult. The scenario treats it as possible only if Stalin made the programme a sustained priority and used coercive pressure to drive the workforce. Western governments would react once early hulls and launch dates made that priority credible. The visible pace of construction would shape immediate strategy long before the full 4,356-ship programme came due.
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The industrial pressure behind the postwar building pace
The postwar capital-ship timetable depends on sustained political priority and coercive mobilisation of Soviet industry.