The British and the French had plans in WWII to cripple the Soviet oil industry

[parsa92]

Operation Pike was a plan in early 1940 which would have seen to the British and the French bomb a major Soviet oil facility in Baku, Azerbaijan,

Operation Pike The World War II Anglo-French Plan to Destroy the Soviet Oil Industry

 

[Pogo]

Wonder what Fred Koch woulda thought of that -- since he built the Soviet oil industry...

 

[whitehall]

Well duh, the "plan" was a response to the "Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact" that united Hitler's Germany with Stalin's Soviet plan for world domination on 8/23/39.