Medvedya
Master Sergeant
Hard to say. Off the back of a Enigmarised and decoded report about the Maikop and Grozny oilfields from Churchill, Stalin had rigged all the refining and cracking equipment to go up in smoke should it look as if it was going to be captured.
To be sure, they could have captured the fields, but if all the equipment to extract and use the oil was wrecked then it would have taken them some time to build the facilities themselves.
To be sure, they could have captured the fields, but if all the equipment to extract and use the oil was wrecked then it would have taken them some time to build the facilities themselves.