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RUSSIA - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Opens up transportation routes and resources because the Arctic ice cap is melting
      - Longer growing seasons, permafrost melting means access to chernozem
      - number 1 industry: export of fossil fuels/natural gas
    - - Very cold - short growing season and drought
      - Permafrost seals in chernozem (very rich soil) so Russia cannot access it for growing food
      - Russia built their infrastructure on permafrost, but now that it is melting the infrastructure is sinking and breaking apart
    - - Russia invaded Crimea because they wanted to take advantage of the C climate here
- - - - State owns the land and is in charge of distributing the products. Food is distributed "equally".
        
        Leads to starvation because everyone receives the same amount of food, no matter how hard they work, so farmers were not incentivized to work. Less food is produced, which leads to starvation
        
        Urbanites received more food than the farmers, so farmers were dying off at especially high rates. Ukraine, as the breadbasket of the USSR, lost a large portion of their population to this starvation because they were largely farmers. They consider this to be genocide.
        
        Chernobyl
        
        Chernobyl Nuclear power plant exploded in Pripyat, Ukraine
        
        No incentivization to do good work under communism, so the building of the nuclear reactor was done poorly and led to the explosion
        
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    - - A way to be more efficient and save money (in theory) by manufacturing goods that would last 5 years at a time through calculating how many of those goods the population would need. After manufacturing one good, the factories would switch over to a different product and produce enough of it to last five years once more.
        
        Five year plans do not work because "shit happens" - things break or get lost and this estimated number for production becomes inaccurate. If people have limited resources, they start to steal from each other
    - - Creates interdependence amongst SSR countries because they cannot survive economically without each other. They will never want to leave the USSR if they don't have the infrastructure to survive independently
      - Countries would be forced to create products that did not make sense for their geography and resources. These products would then have to be shipped through Moscow before they could be received at any other SSR country