Buru not only possessed an army ranked among the world's foremost, but also had a navy. It was simply far weaker than those of the other great naval powers.
The Bolshevik Navy's four Capital Ships had been built with Germany's help. Naturally, Germany had also reaped considerable profits from the construction of those four Battleships. More importantly, the four Battleships had cost an enormous sum, forcing Buru to endure several hard years. To pay the bill, they had even used substantial resources and Agricultural Products to settle the debt.
Apart from those four Capital Ships, Buru had built some cruisers, destroyers, and submarines itself. Though their numbers were not great, their overall strength was still fairly formidable.
However, even before the war broke out, the Bolshevik Navy had sensed the threat. Thus, it left the Baltic Sea and headed for the naval base at Murmansk. Had it remained in the Baltic Sea after war erupted, it would only have been trapped inside by the German Navy and easily wiped out. By going to Murmansk, it could at least operate in the Barents Sea and the northern Norwegian Sea, and could even penetrate deep into the Atlantic Ocean. This posed a relatively greater threat to the German Navy.
If the Bolshevik Navy emerged from behind them while the German Navy was engaged in a decisive battle with the American Navy, it would undoubtedly be a massive threat. Although the Bolshevik Navy was unquestionably very weak before the immense German Navy, the outcome of war was often decided by such weak forces. Especially when the German Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet were roughly equal in strength to the American Navy, the Bolshevik Navy might become the final straw that broke the camel's back.
"If the Bolshevik Navy continues to exist, it will