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What about the Urals? The Russians have moved enormous amounts of industrial equipment behind the Ural Mountains, out of reach of the Nazis. Much of the machinery from the Dnieper River industrial area has been hauled out in freight cars...
...peace to avoid further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
Same day the Polish gold arrived, Paris experts announced they had totted up what they thought was a fair estimate of Soviet Russia's gold reserve. Before World War I Russia ranked fourth among the gold-producing countries of the world. She has vast deposits in the Ural and Caucasus and in Siberia. But according to the Paris experts, the dust has not been panning out the way it should have. As a "considerable over-estimate," the Frenchmen thought the Soviet might have in ready gold 21,000,000 ounces ($760,000,000)-only four times as much...
...Polish State in 18 days, turned at Danzig to reassure Joseph Stalin and pave the way for the military partition of Poland by friendly Nazis and Reds (see p. 29). "I am happy now ... to refute . . . British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict on the subject-we will not. . . . It will calm you to learn that Germany does...
...Said Herr Hitler three years ago in N?g: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in prosperity" (TIME, Sept...