World War II
Dnieper Dam. Together with its electric plant, largest in Europe, was dynamited by retreating Reds. Along with this ruind keystone of the Five Year Plans, the invaders seized 70% of Russia's coal mines, 75% of her iron ore and 60% of her metalworks. But the Soviets saved whole factories - including 75% of Leningrad's industry - by moving them east of the Ural Mountains where a new industrial complex was building.
SOURCE: Life's Picture History of World War II. Time Incorporated. New York, 1950, p. 68.
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