Just don’t Get Ayrton Senna’d

Hello and welcome to the zany adventures of good ol Uncle Joe. on today's epidsode : The adventures in the stan states

One day unlce joe was looking at the map of the USSR and he had an idea
uncle joe: " what if I just dam up both the rivers that feed the Aral sea, then we could irrigate the area around it and produce lots of cotton. oh what a smart man I am"

Uncle joe forgetting that the aral sea produced much of the USSR's fish supply and kept the local climate from becoming a desert

but who cares a gotta love some cotton

so once the rivers were dammed and the cotton was growing someone noticed that the sea was evaporating. and it kept on evaporating.

Now by this time uncle joe has rocked up to the pearly gates so he didn't know

but quite soon all the water disappeared and the fish died.

and once the lake was gone the area got hotter. MUCH hotter

almost like a desert ( cough cough )

now once the ares

area

was a desert someone noticed that the sandstorms and hot environment was killing all the cotton plants

so in the end the sea dried up, the area around ruined, the fish are all dead and all the cotton is gone

but hey just another day in the crazy adventures of Uncle Joe

the later parts only happened in the late 80s under economic liberalization

who made the decisions to dam up the rivers. wasn't Gorbachev

"In the 1960s and 1970s the Soviets started using the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya to irrigate extensive cotton fields in the Central Asian plain"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amu_Darya

Nice going Krushchev/Brezhnev

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apart from the fact how it destroyed the aral sea

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-shrinking-of-the-aral-sea.html

what actually happened

Yeah it fucked up when they diverted the rivers in the 60s

@Monolith so I guess the glorious leaders of the USSR can actually fuck up sometimes

>tfw non socialist leaders happen to be the ones who fuck things up

im not talking about them

i am talking about the aral crisis

which was 100% caused by the soviets

Plus it wasnt the leaders who made these decisions

It was the commissions for planning construction agriculture etc that made the decision

they gave the orders. they did this. whatever party apparatchik did this they were an arm of the soviets

Thats not how the government works lmao

whatever office did this the soviets were centralized. they could have overruled this but they didn't

Yeah so Stalin ordered every individual road that needed to be constructed

@Monolith no sorry mate no

no shifting the conversation

the soviets did this

directly

What are the Soviets?