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Whether Stalingrad falls before the advancing Germans or remains in the hands of its defenders will not weigh as heavily on the outcome of the Russian struggle as people believe, stated Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History...
With Stalingrad gone, said Karpovich, Baku oil could be sent across the Caspian to ports in the Ural region and shipped from there overland by rail. Such a method, of course, would tax Russian rail facilities to the utmost...
Most disastrous and improbable turn of the war would be the capture or destruction of the Baku fields themselves, for their wells supply the Russian war machine with 80 per cent of its fuel. Fortunately, Karpovich pointed out, Baku is distant from the present German lines and occupies an easily defended position...
Although no one knows much about Russia's trans-Ural industrial development, Karpovich feels confident that with the production of these factories, and the steady, though small, stream of supplies from the Allied Nations, the Red troops will be able to resist...
...imperative Karpovich said, that a second front be opened to aid the Russians, whether it is, as Churchill has promised, an increased serial offensive, or an invasion of Europe...