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WWII;
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А можно, я приведу цитату целиком?
"It is important to note that the motivation to strike at the Soviet Union in general and the Caucasian petroleum industry in particular was not merely a result of the anti-Soviet sentiments stirred up in the West by the Russo-Finnish War. A rough outline of the concept to attack the petroleum-based infrastructure of the Soviet Caucasus was presented to the Air Staff a full month before the outbreak of hostilities in Finland. Although the idea was not an entirely new one to the RAF-as as we have seen, a crude plan to bomb Baku had been formulated as early as 1927-this proposal was not at first taken seriously by the Air Ministry or the Foreign Office."
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The original source of the scheme may well have been exposed with the declassification classification of Lord Hankey's War Cabinet papers. As has been noted earlier, Hankey, who had previously been secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defense, was Minister without Portfolio in the War Cabinet, and he was also the head of the Committee to Deprive Germany of Oil. At the end of October 1939 Hankey received a copy of a letter sent by Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin to Lord Halifax. In this letter, Burgin, who had served as an intelligence officer in the First World War, wanted "to bring to notice one or two geographical facts connected to the USSR." These were that the main oil production areas within the Soviet Union were located in the southern cities of Baku, Grozny, and Maikop, which were, in Burgin's words, in " `absurd' proximity" to the northern frontier of Iran. He enclosed a list of cities in Iran and Turkey that he thought might be appropriate locations for airfields, with their corresponding distances to the oil centers. Burgin's letter is apparently the first significant reference to the idea of bombing the Caucasus oil fields during the Second World War: I believe consideration by our General Staff with the General Staff of Iran, say, as to the possibility of annihilating Russian sources of oil might have anenormous deterrent effect. If you destroy Russian oil wells and they are all of the fountain or gusher type and therefore more easily destroyed, you cut off not only Russia from oil, but any of Russia's allies looking to her for support. Burgin admitted his idea was "somewhat grandiose" but was confident that the "capture or destruction of any great city in Russia ... would prove a signal for internal anti-Communist riots." Further, he told Halifax, frustrating and unfruitful discussions with Soviet trade representatives had made him "the more convinced of the necessity of having some power of taking away from a potential enemy the effective `carburretor' [sic] of the structure of his whole mechanized scheme." Burgin also proposed blackmailing the Soviets into selling large amounts of oil to the Allies in return for a pledge not to attack the Caucasus.
То есть это бла-бла-бла министра снабжения (о котором выше написал уч. Дмитрий Козырев) предлагающего бомбардировку с целью вызвать "internal anti-Communist riots".