Word: kazakhstan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...
...items in this Siberian inventory will surprise U.S. readers more than the report of large oilfields in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. If true, the real defensibility of the Siberian bastion may well depend on those fields. For it is generally believed that 85% of Russia's oil is in the Caucasus fields; that if the Germans conquer this oil even the Siberian military, industrial and agricultural machine will break down...