EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA OR RUSSIA AND NORTHERN EURASIA HODGEPODGE: A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING.
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EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIAOR
RUSSIA AND NORTHERN EURASIA
HODGEPODGE: A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING
GOVERNMENT• THEN: COMMUNISM
• NOW: DEMOCRACY
ECONOMY• THEN: COMMAND
• NOW: FREE MARKET
DIVISION OF EUROPE AFTER WW II
UNITED STATES
GREAT BRITAIN
FRANCE
USSR
U.S.S.R• SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
• SATELLITE COUNTRIES
U.S.S.R.
IRON CURTAIN
SOVIET BLOC
FALL OF COMMUNISM• POLAND• LECH WALESA SOLIDARITY
BERLIN WALL
ERECTED 8-13-61
BREACHED 11-9-89
U.S.S.R.• MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 1985 – 1991 GLASTNOST – OPENNESS PERESTROIKA – RESTRUCTURING DEMOKRATIZATSIYA – DEMOCRATIZATION USKORENIYE – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
FELL APART 1991
FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
• U.S.S.R• ALL THE STANS• YUGOSLAVIA• CHECHOSLOVAKIA• EAST GERMANY• ROMANIA• POLAND• BULGARIA• HUNGARY• ALBANIA
WHAT CONDITION ARE THEY IN TODAY?
COMMUNIST LEGACY• POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
• POOR INFRASTRUCTURE
• RUN-DOWN FACTORIES• LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF AND FRAMEWORK FOR FREE MARKET ECONOMY
DEATH OF THE ARAL SEA
THE ARAL SEA WAS FED BY TWO RIVERS: SYR DAR’YA AND AMU DAR’YA
Both rivers were diverted to irrigate cotton – a very thirsty crop
POOR PLANNING = DISASTER
• UNLINED CANALS• WATER SEEPING INTO THE GROUND BEFORE
IT REACHES CROPS• EVAPORATION• A LARGE % OF WATER NEVER MAKES IT TO
THE FIELDS
A NOT-SO-SLOW
DEATH
WATER HEATS AND COOLS MORE SLOWLY THAN LAND
LARGE BODIES OF WATER MODERATE CLIMATES(NOT SO HOT, NOT SO COLD)
NO ARAL SEA = HARSH CLIMATE
SALINATION -SALTY SOIL
HEALTH DANGERSBLOWING DUST FILLED WITH
PESTICIDES AND FERTILIZER (POISONS)
• ANEMIA• BRUCELLOSIS • ASTHMA • TYPHOID• EXTREMELY HIGH INFANT MORTALITY RATE
BIOLOGICAL WARFARETESTING AND DEVELOPMENT
THE PLAGUEANTHRAX
PORT CITIES NOW 30
MILES FROM WATER
NO FISH = NO FISHING = NO FISH PROCESSING PLANTS = NO JOBS
CAN THE ARAL SEA BE SAVED?
CHERNOBYL• NUCLEAR DISASTER• APRIL 1986
CHERNOBYL• GHOST TOWN
CHERNOBYL• GENETIC MUTATIONS
CHERNOBYLEUROPEAN CONTAMINATION
• NORTHERN SWEDEN AND NORWAY• SAMI• REINDEER
GENOCIDETHE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF A PEOPLE GROUP
OTTOMAN TURKS VS ARMENIANS 1915 – 1923MUSLIMS VS CHRISTIANS
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
• MASSACRES• DEPORTATIONS• EXECUTIONS• KIDNAPPINGS• SLAVERY
• LABOR CAMPS• STARVATION
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
1 - 2MILLION KILLED
YUGOSLAVIA (FORMER)
• BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA• 1990’S• TARGET – MUSLIMS UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT MURDER RAPE SEXUAL ASSAULT TORTURE BEATING ROBBERY DEPORTATION PLUNDER STARVATION DESTRUCTION OF HOMES DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES
BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINAFORMER YUGOSLAVIA
CHECHNYA• ISLAMIC SEPARATISTS
• TERRORISM MOSCOW SUBWAY SUICIDE BOMBERS
BESLAN SCHOOL MASSACRE
>300DEAD
MOSCOW MOVIE THEATER
MOSCOW AIRPORT
MOSCOW APARTMENTS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMPING/ABANDONMENT
POPULATION
• AGING
RELIGIONEASTERN ORTHODOX
CHURCH
SIBERIA• NORTH• SUBARCTIC, TUNDRA, TAIGA• HARSH• FROZEN• SPARSELY POPULATED• EXILE• PRACTICALLY FREE!!!
SIBERIA
WESTERNMARSH OILFIELD
DIAMONDMINE
SIBERIA
LAKE BAIKAL
TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD
• EXTENDS ACROSS RUSSIA EAST TO WEST• GAVE RUSSIA A PATHWAY FOR MOVEMENT OF
PEOPLE AND GOODS (TRAVEL AND TRADE)
COSMODROMERUSSIA’S NASA