THE ARAL SEA DESERVED IT FOR HOARDING THE WATER FROM THE FIELDS OF KAZAKHSTANI PROLETARIAT

THE ARAL SEA DESERVED IT FOR HOARDING THE WATER FROM THE FIELDS OF KAZAKHSTANI PROLETARIAT

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It's amazing how the USSR managed to do a more retarded project than the fucking moon landings

I've read about Aral Sea fiasko in depth and concluded that USSR had good intentions but the entire project was too ambitious given they didn't have the technology or infrastructure to make it work so they kinda half-assed it and managed to water ony small fraction of fields before the entire project became horribly mismanaged and unsustainable. Afterwards, USSR just ditched the entire plan, but damage was already done, and they didn't give a fuck to undo the damage so entire Aral Sea was turned into a polluted wasteland of occasional shipwrecks and lifeless desert.

iirc that area is also fucked up by chemical weapons testing

what did aral sea do to deserve this :'(

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's water.

Wait, is that a veiled metaphor for the USSR's attempts at creating a socialist society?

Clever user, I salute you.

They did the communism so god punished them

Worst of the worst happened under capitalist Uzbekistan. You literally posted a before and after where the before is at the tail end of the soviet union. Also, Kazakhstan are the ones who've done what little they can to actually preserve their patch of the Aral sea.

Under the Soviet union there was a greater power that cared at least a little bit about the effects on the rest of the region, as is 90% of the flow comes out of Uzbekistan so if Uzbekistan prefers to embezzle money from cotton sales over not having a giant salt flat causing dust storms, there's nothing anyone else can do about it.

Thanks bookanon.

Can't make this shit up. I can't believe how anti-communist propagandists don't even try anymore, they blame the current purchasing power parity between eastern and western euro countries on communism when the gap was actually a lot smaller before 1990.
I'm a fucking narcho but even I can tell when someone makes a legitimate critique of the USSR or is pulling shit of their ass.

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What are you even trying to say, famalam?

Trying to measure the levels of denial in tankies these days by bringing up the classic example of USSR mismanagement of economics. Fact you are ancom not even a tankie makes it even more impressive.

What I'm trying to say is that USSR already fucked up the Aral Sea with their dams, what central-asians continued to do after the collapse is just consequences accumulating from damage that was already conducted earlier.

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He's saying neoliberal policies started before the collapse of the USSR.

Yeah, but think about all the cool fossils we can easily find now!

Everything the Soviets touch they fuck up