ocr: profoundly dependent on the military. "That has been a myth," : hei insist- ed. "Only 5 percent of our enterprises here were working directly with the military-industrial complex: Our big military establishment was in the cen- ter of Russia. We didn't want to build it here, under the nose of NATO." Captain of the First Rank Alexander Gorbatyuk, then the acting chiefof the press center for the Baltiysk Naval Base, readily admitted that these were not the best of times. "Between 1991 and 1994 the Baltic. Fleet was reduced by 40 percent, both in ships and personnel," - he said. "Now we have just ...
