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The Soviet Navy was divided into four major fleets, the Northern, Pacific, Black Sea, and Baltic Fleets, and commanded separately, the Leningrad Naval Base. The Caspian Flotilla was a smaller force operating in a land-locked sea. The Soviet Mediterranean Squadron drew its units from the Black Sea, Baltic, and Northern Fleets; the Soviet Indian Ocean Squadron primarily from the Pacific Fleet. Other components included Naval Aviation, Naval Infantry (the Soviet equivalent of marines), and Coastal Artillery. According to a 1980 Time magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, Soviet non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy, Strategic Rocket Forces and the Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of loyalty of ethnic minorities. Most of the Soviet Navy was reformed into the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union during 1991. The Soviet Navy was based on a republican naval force formed from the remnants of the Imperial Russian Navy, which had been almost completely destroyed during the Revolution of 1917, the Russian civil war, and the Kronstadt rebellion. During the revolution, sailors deserted their ships at will and generally neglected their duties. The officers were dispersed (some were killed by the Red Terror, some joined the "White" (anti-communist) armies, and others simply resigned from the Navy) and most of the sailors left their ships. Work stopped in the shipyards, where uncompleted ships deteriorated rapidly. The Black Sea Fleet fared no better than the Baltic. The Bolshevik revolution entirely disrupted its personnel, with mass murders of officers; the ships were allowed to decay to unserviceability.At the end of April 1918, German troops entered the Crimea and started to advance towards the Sevastopol naval base..The more effective ships were moved from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk where, after ultimatum from Germany, they were scuttled by Vladimir Lenin's order