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The Aral Sea Disaster: Uzbekistan's Vanished Inland Ocean
In this episode of The Story of Uzbekistan, Lucas and Luna explore the catastrophic shrinking of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest inland lake. They trace the story from the 1960s Soviet irrigation projects that diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers to grow cotton in the desert, through the environmental collapse that left fishing boats stranded in sand, to the present-day efforts to restore the North Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. The episode covers the role of Soviet planners like Vladimir Lenin's GOELRO plan and Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign, the…
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