ABSTRACT
The seas and oceans have always been an arena of fierce contention among colonialists, imperialists and hegemonists. The scramble for maritime hegemony figures high in the global strategy of Soviet social-imperialism in its bid for world domination. Since the 1960s, it has made desperate efforts to beef up its naval forces, frequently held military exercises as a show of strength in the oceans, intruded into the territorial waters of other countries and clamored for expansion. It has indeed become an out-and-out overlord of the seas. The Soviet Union, a sea overlord, undisguisedly resorts to power politics with regard to the question of maritime rights. To legitimatize its attempt to lord it over the oceans, the Soviet Union has created various fallacies for maritime expansion. Besides frenziedly expanding its navy, the Soviet Union has built huge fishing, mercantile and scientific research fleets, serving as important auxiliary forces for maritime expansion.
