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    "ocrText": "18\nTOP SECRET\nMoreover, a careful review of all petroleum\na section has been set up to include the entire\nstudies by the State Department, Army, Navy,\nautomotive park in the USSR under Transport\nAir Force, JIC, JCS, JIB (British), ASPB, SDS,\nMotor. Also, military stocks were excluded\nSID, etc., were analyzed. Pertinent material\nfrom the consumption and requirements for\nfrom these reports was extracted and taken\nMilitary. Thus, the following re-distributed\ninto account in forming the basis of the Soviet\nallocations have been used in this report:\nconsumption pattern for the years 1940 and\nTABLE VII\n1949.\nPercentage Allo-\nIn an effort to establish a basic structure\nConsumers\ncations in 1940\nwhich would show the distribution of petro-\nAgriculture\n23\nleum products among the principal consumers\nTransportation Rail\n12\nof the Soviet economy in 1940, particular em-\nTransportation Motor\n18\nphasis was given to the British system of pro-\nIndustry\n23\nportional allocation. Here, the total petro-\nShipping\n6\nleum products available to the Soviets in 1940\nHome Use\n10\nwere categorically allocated according to the\nMilitary\n8\nmain POL (petrol, oil, and lubricants, i.e., re-\nfined products in general) consumers. Below\n100\nis the percentage allocation system as ex-\ntracted from the British report, JIB, 3/44, TS:\nIt should be noted that according to the\noriginal British table, the total consumption\nTABLE VI\nof commercial vehicles and industries is 32.1\nPercentage Allo-\npercent, whereas the total revised percentages\nConsumers\ncations in 1940\nare assigned 40 percent to the two classes.\nAgriculture\n26\nThe over-all percentages were also somewhat\nIndustries\n26.3\nrevised in view of more recent information.\nRailways\n10.3\n33\n5.8\nb. Requirements and Consumption of Re-\n&\nCommercial Vehicles\nfined Products, 1940.\nShipping\n3.0\n10.4\nIn 1940, the USSR produced 31.0 million\nHome Lighting & Heating\nMilitary & Stocks\n18.2\nmetric tons of crude oil. Of this total, 26.3\nmillion metric tons of refined products were\n100.0\nproduced, 4.65 million tons going for refinery\nloss and other products. This indigenous\nThe 1940 computations were checked with all\nproduction was distributed according to the\nprevious estimates and reports which would\nabove percentage allocations and translated\nbear on the validity of the percentage alloca-\ninto the amounts of POL that would be avail-\ntions employed by the British. Therefore, this\nable to each main consumer, e.g., agriculture\nbreakup was included in the 1940 petroleum\nreceived 6.0 million metric tons of refined prod-\nconsumption table since it was found that, by\nucts in 1940, shipping, 1.6 million metric tons,\nand large, the percentage allocations could be\netc. (Table VIII).\ncorroborated by most sources on Soviet POL\nUntil the outbreak of the war, production\nconsumption requirements.\nsurplus over consumption and exports lends\nIn order to have the principal consumers\ncredence to probable stockpiling in the USSR.\nconform to specific areas of interest, the table\nAn EUCOM report, Gen. Proj. No. J-89, states\nwas rearranged and somewhat modified. Use\nthat the total stockpiles seem to have been\nwas made of certain factors found in several\n14-15 million tons before the war, of which\nof the State Department and SDS documents\nthe Soviet armed forces alone are said to have\nwhich avoid the cumbersome breakdown of in-\nstored 7.5 million tons. Nevertheless, the ex-\ndividual users of automotive vehicles within\ntent of Soviet prewar stockpiling cannot be\neach main consumer category, i.e., instead of\ndefinitely established and for purposes of this\nshowing the use of such vehicles in industry,\nreport are not included in the 1940 total. Also,\nTOP SECRET"
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