Chapter 601: Planning
In the past, I only thought of using aerial bombing to blow the Baku oil field to pieces and cut off the Soviet Union's oil supply. But now Yannick suddenly thought, can we send ground troops to seize the oil field?
Although Germany has already mastered the world's largest oil field in the Middle East, a mosquito's leg is still meat!
What's more, the Baku oil field is not meat on a mosquito's leg. In 1940, Baku's oil production reached its peak, and its output accounted for 5% of the total output of the Soviet Union at that time. After that, Baku's crude oil production began to decline, but until 1950, it was still the largest oil field in the Soviet Union, and its oil production accounted for 2% of the total output of the Soviet Union. After the 1950s, due to the increasing decline in reserves, crude oil production declined after a cumulative production of 1.2 billion tons, and the production situation took a sharp turn for the worse. In 1955, crude oil production accounted for 15% of the total output of the Soviet Union, and in 1970 it fell to about 5%.
In other words, once the Baku oil field is occupied, it will be no problem to continue to mine it for 20 to 30 years.
Even if Germany can't use it itself, it's good to share or reward it to its allies.
But when he walked to the map and observed it carefully, Yannick was a little disappointed.
Iran and Azerbaijan are neighbors, but there are mountains everywhere, and it is difficult for German mechanized troops to deploy and achieve the effect of surprise attack. What if the Soviets feel that they can't defend it during the attack and blow up the oil fields themselves, then what is the point of the ground force's attack? It is better to send a group of bombers to bomb directly.
If you take a detour from Turkey, the terrain is flat, but the Turks may not be willing to borrow a road. Even if Germany threatens to borrow a road, it cannot guarantee that these Turks will not secretly leak secrets to the Soviet Union.
Is it only possible to destroy the Baku oil field by air strikes?
"It's a troublesome thing to destroy it and rebuild it!" Yannick's eyes turned around Azerbaijan and fell on the neighboring Georgian Republic.
"Tsk, how could I forget them!" Yannick couldn't help but slap his forehead.
The Kingdom of Georgia was established in 978 and reached its heyday in the 11th and 12th centuries. It was later conquered by the Mongol Empire and split. It was annexed by the Russian Empire in the 19th century and joined the Soviet Union in 1922, becoming one of the Soviet republics.
The main ethnic group in Georgia is the Georgians, accounting for 8%; they are a typical mountain ethnic group with a tough folk style. Neither the Mongols, Turks nor the Russians can completely conquer them.
How tough are they? Even Stalin, who was born in Georgia (Stalin's original surname was Dzhugashvili, and he was a genuine Georgian, but he did not have a high sense of national identity because he lived next to the Russian community since he was a child and was deeply influenced by Russian culture. He was a Russified Georgian) was quite afraid of his compatriots.
Georgia's separatist tendencies have always been very serious during the Soviet period. Every time there was trouble, Stalin used cruel means to suppress his compatriots.
In his later years, Stalin even gave instructions to Beria: "From now on, I will not allow servants and guards from Georgia to be around me!" Beria had no choice but to follow the instructions and remove all Georgians.
As a result, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Georgia was a leader.
Later generations of Georgians have a contradictory complex about Stalin. On the one hand, they are proud of Stalin for leading the Great Patriotic War and defeating the German fascists. On the other hand, they feel puzzled and ashamed because Stalin maintained the iron-fisted rule of the Soviet Union with Russia as the core.
In summary, it is "honoring his achievements and being angry at his forgetfulness". After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Georgians have demolished Stalin's statues to vent their anger towards him.
After the Georgia-Russia War, some Georgians self-deprecatingly said: Only Stalin in Georgia can kill so many Russians without any effort.
What's even better is that there is a guy in the northeast of Georgia who loves to make trouble even more, Chechnya!
In 1922, the Soviet Union divided the Chechen region into the "Chechen Autonomous Region". In 1929, the Soviet Union increased property taxes in the North Caucasus. The Chechens rose up in rebellion under the leadership of Islambrov. The next year, the Soviet government made a small concession and promised to respect the rights of the Chechen/Ingush people; but in 1931, the Soviet Union still killed Islambrov and others...
In 1934, the Soviet Union merged Chechnya and Ingushetia into the "Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Region", and in 1936 it was renamed the "Chechen-Ingush Soviet Autonomous Republic". By 1937, all Chechens who openly opposed the name of "Soviet Union" were ruthlessly attacked. Within a year, tens of thousands of people entered Stalin's prison, and almost none of them came out alive.
In 1941, the Soviet-German War broke out, and the German army pointed its spearhead all the way to the Caucasus. Because of hatred for Stalin's oppression, most Chechens took the opportunity to try to cooperate with the German army to seek independence.
But as the Soviet-German War entered the counter-offensive phase, Chechnya was again controlled by the Soviet army.
Stalin, who pursued a policy of cleansing the Chechens, ordered the expulsion and exile of all Chechens to a harsh environment in Central Asia/Kazakhstan in 1944 on the pretext that the Chechens had collaborated with the enemy (Germany). The so-called autonomous republic also disappeared from the administrative divisions of Russia. There were nearly 500,000 Chechens before the exile. During the exile, countless Chechens died of hunger, disease, and Russian bullets, and the Chechens lost 40% of their population. The entire Chechen nation became a victim of Soviet state terrorism, ethnic discrimination, and ethnic cleansing.
But since you have to do it, do it right. No matter how much trouble a rootless duckweed makes, it can't make waves. However, Khrushchev, who later came to power, completely repudiated Stalin, restored the administrative regions of the autonomous republic, and allowed Chechens to return to their homeland.
But come back, come back. These Chechens who have returned to their ancestral land have always been subject to unwarranted suspicion by the government and are considered second-class politically. The traditional culture and religious beliefs of the Chechen (and Ingushetia) people are also prohibited, school teaching can only be in Russian, and Chechen language is limited to internal use within the family.
In the late 1980s, when Gorbachev was in power, the "new thinking" he promoted brought the Soviet Union into a mess and also brought hope to the Chechens. Driven by Gorbachev's "new thinking", the Soviet Union had ceased to exist in name only. However, at this time, Chechen separatist forces rose again, laying hidden dangers for Russia's two subsequent Chechen wars.
Yannick immediately called Reinhard. "Contact Natasha and see if she can find anti-Soviet forces in Georgia and Chechnya. We can have good cooperation."
Then he contacted Ribbentrop. "Let the ambassadors from Greece, Iran, Iraq, Serbia, and Bulgaria come."
The ambassadors of the five countries naturally did not dare to delay and immediately set off for the palace.
In the conference room of the palace, Yannick said to the ambassadors of the five countries. "I'm here to discuss something with you. I'm wondering if you can form a five-nation alliance to jointly attack Turkey."
"!!" Several ambassadors looked at each other in shock, only to hear Yannick continue. "We can sell fighter planes, tanks and other weapons and equipment to various countries at low prices; we can also send instructors to train soldiers from various countries. There is only one thing I want, and that is that from now on, the Turkish Straits will be under German jurisdiction. As for the rest of the occupied land, I won’t take an inch of it, it all belongs to all your countries.
Okay, I’ve finished what I said, please go back and contact the country. "