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WWII;
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Patrick Osborn. Operation Pike: Britain Versus the Soviet Union, 1939-1941
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.