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"The question of oil ... and other lighting substances is too close to Russia's interests." So wrote the great Russian scientist D.I. Mendeleev. And this is not an exaggeration, for almost all the major wars of the past XX century clearly demonstrate the special strategic role of oil products.
As for the Caucasian oil, on the eve of and during the Great Patriotic War it became an object of hunting not only from Nazi Germany, but also from our future allies in the anti-Hitler coalition. It may seem incredible to some, but in January 1940, France and Great Britain planned an operation to weaken the military power of the Soviet Union, intending to destroy the USSR oil industry in the Caucasus and stop oil transportation across the Black Sea. Details of the preparation of this operation in historical literature are almost absent, and in the West they prefer not to talk about it. We have captured documents about the operation "Caucasian Oil" for almost 55 years lying in the special security agencies of the state security and the Central State Archive of Russia.
This idea was first expressed by French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier in a note dated January 19, 1940, intended for information to members of the ruling cabinet. Daladier invited the two highest military ranks - the chief of the general staff of the army Army General Moris Gamelin and the chief of the naval staff admiral Jean Darlan to think over and state ideas about the "alleged operation to invade Russia to destroy oil sources." They had in mind three possible options: the interception in the Black Sea of oil vessels bound for Germany, the direct invasion of the Caucasus, or the support of the liberation movement of Caucasian Muslim peoples. As can be seen from the captured documents, the intentions of Daladier met with active support in the British ruling circles. Even Anglo-Soviet economic contacts did not interfere with the development of these plans. It was actually about unleashing aggression against a sovereign state, or at least turning the North Caucasus region into a hotbed of armed rebellion.
What were the reasons?
Formally, there were many reasons that prompted France and England to seriously develop a plan: a friendship treaty concluded between Germany and Russia in 1939, which opened the Germans access to Soviet oil; the entry of Soviet troops into Western Ukraine and Western Belarus on September 17 of the same year; Soviet-Finnish war launched by the Red Army on November 30, 1939. By the way, it was the fighting against Finland that prompted Paris and London to make threatening statements. On December 14, the League of Nations, at the request of the British and French representatives "for perfect aggression," expelled the USSR from its members. By mid-January 1940, when Finland received a large amount of arms and equipment from England and France, an agreement was reached between London and Paris to send expeditionary forces of up to 150,000 to help Finns in February – March. The situation was created explosive.
However, plans for the destruction of Caucasian oil had only a relative connection with the conflict in northern Europe. In fact, it was a long-term military strategy, confirmed even by the fact that after the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, preparations for an attack on the USSR continued to go at full speed.
Why did the Caucasus and Transcaucasia with their raw materials become the object of aggression? The fact is that oil products were mainly produced by Azerbaijan, Grozny and Batumi. The Red Army could not complain about their abundance - on the eve of the war, the production of, for example, aircraft fuel in the USSR was two-thirds dependent on imported high-octane components. Although by that time the fields of the Ural-Volga oil region were actively being developed in our country, oil production in Kazakhstan and Sakhalin increased, the share of non-Caucasian regions in the same 1940 amounted to only 13.5 percent.
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