The Black Sea Fleet was completely annihilated in one day, and this result could not be accepted by Stalin in any case, and what was even more terrible was the series of evil consequences caused by it.

For example, those ports on the Black Sea coast can be attacked by the Germans at any time, and the Germans only need to set up artillery and bombard, and they can collapse people.

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

While all eyes were drawn to the Western Front and the Black Sea, few people noticed that Azerbaijan actually contained greater risks.

Because, there is the Baku oil field there!

World War I was a positional war, as long as there were weapons and ammunition, it could be fought, but World War II was different, and the Germans innovatively used tanks to attack, turning this war into a mechanized war.

Whoever has more tanks and more firepower will win, and around the tank, there will be a lot of auxiliary equipment, such as cars, which will need a lot to transport fuel and ammunition.

This war needs oil, and without oil, it cannot be won.

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

The Republic of Azerbaijan, the capital of Baku, is a city located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, not only as a political and cultural center, but also as an important oil base and economic center.

The history here is quite long, as early as the 10th century AD, the digging of wells to extract oil; The Apsheron Peninsula and its nearby seabed, centered on Baku, have become one of the world's famous oil-producing regions.

However, in the era of handicrafts, it was not very noticeable, and it was not until the dawn of the era of industrial oil extraction in the world that Baku shone brightly.

Azerbaijan drilled its first oil well in 1873. At the beginning of the 20th century, Baku oil field production was the most productive oil field in the world. In 1901, oil production accounted for almost half of the world's oil production, making it the industrial center of the South Caucasus and the oil base of Russia. Since that time, Baku has been known as the "City of Oil".

The Baku oil field became the world's most productive oil field, the industrial center of the South Caucasus and the Russian oil base. At that time, there were a large number of private oil fields, almost all of which were controlled by the United States, until after the October Revolution, everything was nationalized, and Baku became the most important Soviet oil exporter.

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

By now, with the needs of the war, oil production in Baku has reached its peak, accounting for seventy-one percent of the total production of the USSR!

In the past, no one was aware of the risks here, and they always felt that it was still far from the front line, and at most it was to prevent the Germans from taking off fighters in the Middle East to attack the oil fields, so a large number of anti-aircraft guns were deployed in the oil fields.

Now it's different.

With Turkey's defection, there were shortcuts if the Germans wanted to attack the Baku oil fields, they could make a detour to Turkey.

At the beginning, in North Africa, after Rommel advanced all the way to Iraq, he stopped and did not enter Iran, of course, this is not because Germany does not want to continue to advance eastward, but because Iran is originally pro-German.

At the beginning, the Soviet Union wanted to attack Iran in order to expand the depth of Baku's defenses, but unfortunately, with the secret support of Germany, the Soviet Union was disgraced.

Although the Soviet attack on Iran failed, it was equally inconvenient for the Germans to attack Azerbaijan through Iran, because there were high mountains everywhere, and the Germans' mechanized troops could not be used.

Now, if Turkey also becomes a servant state of Germany, then Germany will be able to pounce on Azerbaijan from the direction of Turkey and Iran, and once Baku is defeated, it will be absolutely intolerable to the Soviet Union.

"We must speed up the development of the second Baku." Stalin put down his pipe, pointed to the map on it and said: "Beria, you go and take charge here, transfer all the prisoners to the labor camp, and within two months, let the second Baku produce more oil than the Baku oil field!" ”

Hearing this, everyone frowned.

Second Baku, the real name of which is the Volga-Ural oil and gas region, is the second largest oil industrial region in Western Siberia, with a total area of 700,000 square kilometers between the middle reaches of the Volga River and the Ural Mountains.

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

It also has a long history, with oil seedlings discovered as early as the 18th century, but it was not until 1929 that industrial development began, with the discovery of 800 oil fields and 500 gas fields. The main oil and gas fields are: Romshkino, Orenburg, Dujmaz.

However, these are just being discovered, and since the Baku oil fields are already sufficient to support the oil needs of the Soviets, they have only just been built here, and the extraction is quite low.

Historically, large-scale construction began only during the Second World War, when the Baku oil fields were in danger and the Soviets had to make new preparations.

It was not until the mid-50s and mid-70s that large-scale mining was carried out for 20 years.

It can be said that it is still a barren land, and it is definitely a joke to want to build an oil field that surpasses Baku in two months.

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

And, intellectually, Stalin was far-sighted.

No matter how much defense is made, it is impossible to guarantee that the Baku oil field is foolproof, and no amount of anti-aircraft artillery can stop the bombing of the opponent's bombers. As soon as they decide they want to get their hands dirty, the Baku oil fields will soon be blown to nothing.

Historically, Germany did not send bombers to bomb the Baku oil field, it was because the Germans wanted to get the oil here, how could they be willing to bomb it! But the Soviet Union was prepared, in case this place was occupied by the Germans, then detonate explosives and blow up the oil fields, even Britain was prepared, in case the Soviets could not hold on and blow up the Baku oil fields, it could not be left to the Germans!

Now, Germany has Libyan oil fields, as well as those oil fields in the Middle East with super rich reserves, and they don't look down on Baku at all, and they can be blown up if they want to!

Now it is necessary to develop the second Baku as soon as possible.

"Comrade Stalin, I promise to complete the task." "We can do the development, but we don't have the equipment, our factories are rushing to make tanks, they can't make us oil equipment at all, and there is a lot of processing equipment, so I suggest that we contact the United States immediately and hope that the United States will provide these supports," Beria said. ”

For Beria, there is nothing that cannot be completed, it depends on how much it costs, even if half of those labor prisoners are killed, the construction task must be completed, but the equipment is powerless.