A man-made disaster
In the early sixties, when Kazakhstan was still part of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev decided to divert the waters of the Amur Darya and Syr Darya rivers to bolster the cotton plantations in Uzbekistan. The net result was a man-made ecological disaster as the Aral Sea all but dried
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