Why does the USSR and 'Soviet planning' get the blame for the destruction of the Aral Sea when almost all of its decline took place after Kazakh/Uzbek independence?
>>17983286USSR's massive, poorly-planned cotton irrigation projects *caused* the disaster. The new independent states simply inherited the collapsing system and couldn't afford to stop it, even though the worst effects became obvious on their watch.
>>17983286Because no one wants to take responsibility.Also it's easier to manage the problem with unified planning, meanwhile after the USSR, capitalist profit accelerated the process.It's pointless to blame anything now, but thinking a way to solve it. And I bet with this divided state between many countries, it would be impossible. LMAO.So blame USSR as much as you can, but you capitalists can live for eternity but cannot solve this problem, hahaha
>>17983286That's by surface, by volume the Aral Sea got 2/3 of the way to liquidation by the year the USSR disappeared.
Kazakhstan and the World Bank actually rebuilt part of the northern Aral Sea in 2005. The North Aral has partially recovered.
>>17983286USSR’s central planners designed that insane cotton monoculture and built the irrigation systems that bled the sea dry.
>>17983286Idk, why do the USSR and 'Soviet Planning' get the blame for the post-revolution famines, when famines have been a fixed part of Russian life for hundreds of years?
