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The Soviet carrier program, starting in the 1960s with the Moskva-class helicopter carriers, never quite reached the stage of supercarriers - but the designs were there, and the Ulyanovsk was undergoing construction before the collapse of the Soviet Union. What would it take to have a more successful Soviet (or Russian) carrier program, one that ends up operating supercarriers?