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In implementing their large-scale economic and ideological programs, communist regimes, particularly in the USSR and China, inflicted colossal and often irreversible damage on nature. The main reason was that industrialization and the transformation of nature were seen as a primary and urgent task that had to be accomplished at any cost, including the cost of environmental destruction.
Environmental policy was subordinated to the slogan of "conquering nature" and achieving quantitative targets in industry and agriculture. This led to a series of catastrophes. The most striking example is the tragedy of the Aral Sea, which was essentially destroyed for the irrigation of cotton plantations. The great rivers of Siberia were nearly reversed, which could have caused a global ecological disaster.
Industry, primarily heavy and extractive, operated on the principle of "at any cost," without modern filtration systems. Entire regions, such as Nikel on the Kola Peninsula, Norilsk, or Karabash, were turned into zones of ecological disaster with poisoned rivers and forests scorched by acid rain. Accidents like the 1957 disaster at the Mayak chemical plant were concealed from the public for years, exacerbating the consequences of radioactive contamination.
The system of a planned economy and "ownerless" property itself also created colossal problems. The absence of a real owner for natural resources led to mismanagement and a predatory attitude. Forests were cut down, land was depleted, and waste was dumped into rivers because fulfilling the plan was more important than long-term consequences. Thus, the legacy of communist industrialization is degraded landscapes, polluted water bodies, and a severely compromised environmental situation in industrial centers.
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