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WWII;
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Но после завершения войны не прекратилась.
Так что связь непосредственно с Финляндией (как и захват шведских рудников) довольно призрачная.
А цитировать я тоже могу:
If the Scandinavian campaign highlights the crisis of French strategy, plans to attack the Soviet Union are even more suggestive. Although scholars generally dismiss these plans as Kriegsspielen or foolish fantasies, treating them largely in isolation from the larger issue of French strategy, this approach ignores the fact that the plans enjoyed almost unanimous support in Paris(181). More to the point, the plans represent the last step in the progressive radicalization of French strategy, a process begun before the war and embodied in wartime proposals for a Balkan expedition and the developments leading to Allied military intervention in Scandinavia.
Following the outbreak of the Russo-Finnish War in November 1939, French planners began to consider die possibility of military action against the Soviet Union. From the outset, moreover, the aim was not to help the Finns but to inflict a blow against the Soviets. With this in mind, in January 1940 Daladier instructed Darlan and Gamelin to draw up staff studies of three possible operations: naval action in the Black Sea; fomenting local anti-Soviet disturbances in the Caucasus; and air attacks on the Soviet oil industry(182). The common denominator in all three operations was oiL With oil a mainstay of developed (and developing) economies and with 90 per cent of Soviet oil production concentrated in the Caucasus region, the Soviet oil industry presented itself as a tempting target.
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181. Gates, End of the Affair, 32; and Patrice Buffotot, ‘Le Projet de bombardement des petroles sovietiques du Caucase en 1940’, Revue historique des armees, 4 (1979), 78-101. The best treatment is in Bartel, Frankreieh und die Sowjetunion 1939—1940, 322-44.
182. SHAT 27N 9-3, untitled MS note by Daladier, 19 Jan. 1940.
С уважением, Пауль.