DNIEPER DAM
LOSS TO WEST UKRAINE
DONET'Z AREA SELF-CONTAINED
The loss to the Russians of the great Dnieper dam, serious as it is, should not be over-emphasised. Despite the enormous growth of the west Ukranian industries in the last decade, they still cannot compare in scope with those of the Donetz basin; and it is absurd to suggest that the blowing up of the Dnieprostroi will mean the paralysis of Russian industrial life up to the Urals. The great Donetz field did not derive its power from the Dnieper hydro-electric scheme, and the industries near the Don and the Volga can continue to produce most of south Russia's output, as long as Budenny's armies hold the approaches on the higher east bank of the Dnieper. The loss of the newer industries In the west Ukraine is grievous, but in no sense catastrophe. The destruction of the Dnieper installations is one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of war, but A similar destruction in the Doneiz field, first to Voroshilovgrad and then to Stalingrad, would be the greatest disaster in the history of Industrial development. The Dnepropetrovsk works are only the outer portals to the heart of an industrialised Ukraine.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 152, 8 September 1941, Page 3
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