THE SOVIET UNION, CIRCLING THE GLOW,
IS ALMOST A GLOBAL WAR BY HERSELF
THE battle for Russia is almost a global war by ttseif.
From Bering Strait, it stretches to the opposite side o<
the globe. From north to south, it spans the distance be
tween eternal polar cold and cotton growing country.
Russia's chief weakness is that despite tier sire and the
length of her northern and far eastern sea coast she lacks
dependable ports for handling supplies and munitions from
her Allies. Her two salt water gills—th« Baltic and the
Black seas—are blocked by enemies. And the northern seas
are blocked to a great extent by ice. So Russia's problem
of maintaining her fighting fronts is a pcoblom of global
transporfation as well as of homo production. Long ago
she handled the home production with war in mind. Sy
concentrating factories in the new industrial region pro*
tected by the Urals she prepared for crisis and used dis
tance as a defense. Russia is a big place to blits.
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NEXT WEEK: Global Map- “The Uphill Fight"