[X] Plan Trollys & Cars
Our ground scout game is bad that's for sure, but an armored car isn't going to fix it. I'm kinda unsure why the trial is even an option, the Soviets had an armored car they didn't replace from 1936-1945 in the BA-20.
This is ignorance of historical material. In the end, if we are talking about the use of Wikipedia, then it is quite logical to just take a different language and compare information.
БА-20 — Википедия and
БА-64 — Википедия are quite different in filling from
BA-64 - Wikipedia and
BA-20 - Wikipedia. Who is too lazy to read - BA-20 was discontinued in 1942, the wiki in English simply indicates the years of use of the remnants of equipment in the army. The USSR had a pretty good reconnaissance armored car on which the whole war took place - the BA-64 based on the GAZ-64 car. Produced since 1942, 2 seats, rational armor angles, one machine gun. As a result, it will be produced in the amount of 9063 versus 2144 for the BA-20.
This is where the USSR is really cursed, as it is in the semi-track tractors. They simply weren't in armored form like the M3 or the Ganomag. There were several thousand pieces
ЗИС-42 — Википедия, but it was an unarmored modification and as a result, reconnaissance units often relied on lend-lease equipment, which was very concentrated in their hands, even if on the scale of the entire army was not so weighty. Also, a number of imported vehicles covered the problem of the USSR in the absence of good air defense vehicles.
Coal is cheaper and oil is needed all over the place/only comes out of one location in the Union.
It is worth clarifying several directions that exist in geological exploration in the direction of oil in the USSR. The most important thing is, of course, Baku, the oldest production and the corresponding pros and cons.
The second thing is that the USSR already in the 30s popularizes and knows. Moreover, we are lagging behind the IRL. On May 16, 1932, drilling of well number 702 in the vicinity of the village of Ishimbaevo led to the appearance of the first oil fountain, which hit from a depth of 680 meters. It was this well, the initial daily flow rate of which was approximately 11.5 tons, and became the first oil-producing industrial well to produce oil in Bashkiria. In 1935, the Ishimbaevskoye field gave the Soviet country more than four hundred thousand tons of this most valuable energy resource, and in 1939 this figure generally increased to 1 million 600 thousand tons of black gold. This is Ufa, Bashkiria, the territory to the west of the Urals. If we want to increase oil production, this is the most convenient option.
Ишимбайское нефтяное месторождение — Википедия
There is a very inconvenient for production, but perhaps the largest in the world Samotlor field. Not quite familiar even for the Russian language led to the fact that even the name was delimited by the local peoples.
Samotlor Field - Wikipedia
Mining is already taking place in western Siberia, which consists of forests and swamps. And in the far north. Not the best place to live, work there was carried out on a rotational basis.
And here's the last thing. Sakhalin, an island in the Far East, already has its own oil. And for a long time. However, in bringing the situation to the point of absurdity, the existence of oil concessions ... of Japan on the territory of the USSR on Sakhalin became. In any case, not a very large field played an even bigger share for the Soviet Far East, giving them its oil.
Японские нефтяные концессии на Северном Сахалине в годы Великой Отечественной войны — Википедия
I also found some information about peat. Here is a brief summary of who and how worked in peat work in the USSR "In those years, the conditions for recruitment were almost ideal. First, the command system reigned. A directive came to the appropriate district committee, then to the village council, they lined up in even rows of boys or girls and sent Secondly, people on collective farms worked practically free of charge, and they could earn at least some penny "on peat", and thirdly, recruitment gave a chance to escape from the collective farm, get a passport and become a full citizen. extended to logging, mines and other organizations where male labor was required, the share of peat enterprises remained mainly women. "
In any case, most of the mining was carried out by the peasantry out of a desire to break out into the city. To do this, you need to become a proletarian and get a passport (the villagers do not have it in the USSR at that time and will not have it for a long time). And for this you need to earn a seniority and a certain amount of funds or get an education (which, thanks to Comrade Stalin, is a plant, albeit not very expensive, 1 month's salary of an average laborer = annual payment of a university).
Торфяная отрасль в годы Великой Отечественной войны (к 70-летию Великой Победы) и
Торфушки или русалки. Забытая субкультура торфоразработок | Ярославский...
As a result, a system was formed where the peat extraction teams were volunteers, despite the difficult working conditions, I wanted to get more money from such a job to return home with them.
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