Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (1932)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Dneprostroi”
Oct 1932 — The Dnieper hydroelectric station opens at Zaporizhzhia, then the most powerful in Europe, built with American engineers under Hugh Cooper. In August 1941 retreating Soviet forces blew a breach in the dam to deny it to the Germans.
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- Stalin’s Five-Year Plans (chapter 4 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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