 The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was behind many of the advances of Soviet whaling and in some cases laid the groundwork for it.Their obsession with being bigger and better than all the capitalist whaling countries (this was clarified by the building of the almost 50,000 ton "Rossiya" and "Ukraina" factory ships, the largest ever built) and their constant rhetoric to their own seamen that since all capitalist whaling nations were whaling illegally (they weren’t) only served as incentive to ensure the USSR killed more whales to ensure they were killed for the noble purpose of socialism rather than to benefit the capitalist elites of other countries.