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Oil production
Failed to meet targets causing a fuel crisis
Some relief gained by Sovit occupation of Eastern Poland in late 1939, and of the Baltic States in 1940
Gosplan
Thrown into chaos when purges created shortages of qualified personnel
Good managers, specialists and technicians were purged
Steel production
Emphasis on rearmament meant that steel production ceased
Consumer goods industry
Once again put down as the lowest priority
Heavy industry
Main beneficiary
Strong growth in machinery and engineering
However the picture was uneven and some areas did poorly
Resources
Increasingly diverted to rearmament
Spending doubled between 1938 and 1940 on rearmament
Defence and armaments grew rapidly
Huge growth in armaments industry with tanks, aircraft and pewpews produced that were the equal of anything produced elsewhere in the world
But many industries found themselves short of raw materials
Overall
Priority on preparing USSR for war which put USSR in somewhat good shape for the German invasion of June 1941
Purges meant losing a lot of economic experts
When
1938-1941