Soviet Navy without World War 2

Lets assume that Hitler is assasinated or drops dead on his own in 1938/1939 after the Munich conference but before the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia. Either Goering takes power who establishes a an authoritarian, nationalist, conservative government with support from big business, the aristocracy and the army or a military junta is established with Von Brauchitsch as its (nominal) leader.

They don't annex Bohemia and Moravia and instead fight a limited war with Poland to regain pre-1918 borders after they find a good excuse. the remains of Poland are satellized as is Czechslovakia and some sort of anticommunist alliance is formed in eastern/central Europe with Germany in charge.

Here's my question:

What will the Soviet Navy be like in this scenario. The Soviets will keep rearming and will have recovered from the purges by 1942/1943. I know there were four Sovietsky Soyuz class battleships under construction which would have been the second largest battleships in the world when finished. What about carriers, battlecruisers , submarines and so on? And if the Soviets would get into a war pre-1950 with either the west or the Japanese, how would the Red Navy perform?
 
What will the Soviet Navy be like in this scenario. The Soviets will keep rearming and will have recovered from the purges by 1942/1943. I know there were four Sovietsky Soyuz class battleships under construction which would have been the second largest battleships in the world when finished. What about carriers, battlecruisers , submarines and so on? And if the Soviets would get into a war pre-1950 with either the west or the Japanese, how would the Red Navy perform?

Take a GoogleBook view on Stalin's Ocean Going Fleet, if you can't reach a copy of it. Page 103 shows planned dispositions for 1947. With overtly optimistic tone it depicts the following totals (there are errors in sums):

16x Battleships Sovetskij Sojuz -class
16x Battlecruisers Kronshtadt -class
2x Aircraft carriers Project 71 -class
18x Cruisers Chapayev -class
6x Cruisers Kirov -class
36x Destroyer leaders
163x modern destroyers
88x large submarines (54x K-class)
234x medium submarines (144x S-class, rest Sch-class)
123x small submarines (M-class)

How much of this could have been completed is another question. My guess is that it's the upper end, battleships and battlecruisers, which would have proved to be most problematic. This would have also been a tremendous expansion lowering training standards.
 
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