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The Third Empire - Chapter 1371

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:30:38 AM


Chapter 1371: 1371

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Stalin could not accept the result that the Black Sea Fleet was destroyed in one day, and what was more terrible was a series of consequences.

For example, those ports along the Black Sea coast will be attacked by the Germans at any time. As long as the Germans set up guns and blast, they can make people collapse.

"We must prepare for the worse." Another person said: "I don't know if you have noticed. With the change of flag of Turkey, our Azerbaijan region may also face great danger."

When everyone's eyes were attracted by the western front and the Black Sea, few people noticed that Azerbaijan actually contained greater risks.

Because there is Baku oil field!

World War I belongs to positional warfare, which can be fought as long as there are weapons and ammunition, but World War II has been different. The Germans innovatively used tanks to attack, turning the war into a mechanized war.

Whoever has more tanks and fierce Tank Firepower can win. Around the tanks, there will be a large number of ancillary equipment, such as cars, which need a lot to transport fuel and ammunition.

This war needs oil. Without oil, we can't win.

The Soviet Union did not have to worry about this because it had a world-famous oil city.

Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, located on the West Bank of the Caspian Sea, is not only a political and cultural center, but also an important oil base and economic center.

The history here is quite long. As early as the 10th century, it began to dig wells to draw oil; The apshelon peninsula with Baku as the center and its adjacent seabed have become one of the world-famous oil producing areas.

However, in the era of handicraft industry, it has not attracted much attention here. Baku did not shine until the era of industrialized oil exploitation in the world came.

Azerbaijan drilled its first oil well in 1873. At the beginning of the 20th century, the output of Baku oilfield was the highest in the world. In 1901, oil production accounted for almost half of the world's oil production and became the industrial center of the South Caucasus and the Russian oil base. Since then, Baku has been known as the "oil city".

Baku oilfield has become the largest oil field in the world, the industrial center of the South Caucasus and the Russian oil base. At that time, a large number of private oil fields were almost controlled by the United States. Until after the October Revolution, everything was nationalized, and Baku became the most important oil export place of the Soviet Union.

Just a few years ago, the Soviet Union had been exporting oil to Germany.

Now, with the needs of the war, Baku's oil production has reached a peak, accounting for 71% of the total output of the Soviet Union!

In the past, no one was aware of the risks here and always felt that it was far from the front line. The most important thing was to prevent German fighters from taking off in the Middle East to air attack the oil field, so a large number of anti-aircraft guns were deployed in the oil field.

It's different now.

With Turkey's defection, if the Germans want to attack Baku oilfield, there is a shortcut. They can bypass Turkey.

At the beginning, in North Africa, Rommel stopped after advancing all the way to Iraq and did not enter Iran. Of course, this is not that Germany does not want to continue to move eastward, but it is unnecessary, because Iran is pro German.

At the beginning, the Soviet Union wanted to attack Iran in order to expand the defense depth of Baku. Unfortunately, with the secret support of Germany, the Soviet Union was disheartened.

Although the Soviet Union failed to attack Iran, it was also inconvenient for the Germans to attack Azerbaijan through Iran, because there were mountains everywhere and the German mechanized forces could not be deployed.

Now, if Turkey also becomes Germany's servant country, Germany can jump at Azerbaijan from Turkey and Iran. Once Baku is defeated, the Soviet Union will never tolerate it.

"We must speed up the development of the second Baku." Stalin put down his pipe, pointed to the map above and said, "belia, you take charge of here, transfer all the reform through labor prisoners, and make the second Baku produce more oil than Baku oilfield in two months!"

Everyone frowned at this.

The second Baku, whose real name is Volga ural oil and gas area, is the second largest oil industrial area in western Siberia, between the middle reaches of Volga River and Ural Mountains, with a total area of 700000 square kilometers.

As a large oilfield with reserves second only to Baku oilfield at this stage, it is also called the second Baku oilfield.

The history here is also long. Oil seedlings were discovered as early as the 18th century, but industrial development did not begin until 1929. 800 oil fields and 500 gas fields were discovered one after another. The main oil and gas fields are: romanesquino, Orenburg and duimaz.

However, these have just been discovered. Because Baku oilfield has been enough to support the oil demand of the Soviet Union, it has just been constructed and the exploitation volume is quite low.

In history, large-scale construction was only started during World War II. After all, at that time, Baku oilfield was in danger, and the Soviet had to make new preparations.

It was not until the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s that large-scale mining was carried out.

It can be said that there is still barren land. It is absolutely a joke to build an oil field beyond Baku in two months.

But now, who dares to refute Stalin's words?

And, intellectually, Stalin was visionary.

No matter how defensive it is, it is impossible to ensure that Baku oil field is safe. No amount of anti-aircraft guns can stop the bombing of each other's bombers. Now Germany just can't afford it. Once they decide to do it, the Baku oil field will soon be blown up.

In history, Germany did not send bombers to bomb Baku oil field. That's because the Germans want to get oil here. How can they be willing to bomb! The Soviet Union has made preparations. If it is occupied by the Germans, detonate explosives and blow up the oil field. Even Britain is prepared. If the Soviets can't hold on, blow up the Baku oil field, they can't leave it to the Germans!

Now, there are Libyan oil fields in Germany and those super rich oil fields in the Middle East. They don't look up to Baku at all. They can blow up if they want!

Now, we must develop the second Baku as soon as possible.

"Comrade Stalin, I promise to complete the task." Belia said: "we can develop, but we lack equipment. Our factories are catching up with tanks, so we can't make oil equipment and a lot of processing equipment. I suggest we contact the United States immediately and hope the United States can provide these support."

For belia, there is nothing that can't be completed. It depends on how much it costs. Even if half of those reform through labor prisoners die, they have to complete the construction task, but he can't do anything about the equipment.




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