>>509158224
Exactly, but watch hitler fanbois tell you the Soviets could just move their industry across the Ural and magically counter attack from there
>>509158397
The so-called Blitz ended the very night Hess flew to Britain, and the Western front remained pretty quiet for over two years into Barbarossa

>>17771964
>Stalingrad wasnt, the Volga was, and you have a point that controlling the volga would inflict significant damage to the USSR since it was the transportation nerve from Baku to the main refineries at Bashkortostan.
There were two paths from where the resources of the Caucasus, the most important being oil, can move through - Stalingrad or Rostov. Naturally if you have secured Stalingrad, you have secured Rostov.