1. EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA OR RUSSIA AND NORTHERN EURASIA
HODGEPODGE: A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

2. GOVERNMENT
THEN: COMMUNISM
NOW: DEMOCRACY

3. ECONOMY
THEN: COMMAND
NOW: FREE MARKET

4. DIVISION OF EUROPE AFTER WW II
UNITED STATES
GREAT BRITAIN
FRANCE
USSR

5. U.S.S.R
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
SATELLITE COUNTRIES

6. U.S.S.R.
IRON CURTAIN
SOVIET BLOC

7. FALL OF COMMUNISM
POLAND
LECH WALESA
SOLIDARITY

8. BERLIN WALL
ERECTED BREACHED

9. U.S.S.R. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 1985 – 1991 GLASTNOST – OPENNESS FELL APART
PERESTROIKA – RESTRUCTURING
DEMOKRATIZATSIYA – DEMOCRATIZATION
USKORENIYE – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
FELL APART
1991

10. 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?

11. COMMUNIST LEGACY POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
POOR INFRASTRUCTURE
RUN-DOWN FACTORIES
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF AND
FRAMEWORK FOR FREE MARKET ECONOMY

12. DEATH OF THE ARAL SEA

13. THE ARAL SEA WAS FED BY TWO RIVERS: SYR DAR’YA AND AMU DAR’YA

14. Both rivers were diverted to irrigate cotton – a very thirsty crop

15. 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

16. A NOT-SO-SLOW DEATH

19. 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

20. SALINATION - SALTY SOIL

21. HEALTH DANGERS BLOWING DUST FILLED WITH PESTICIDES AND FERTILIZER (POISONS)
ANEMIA
BRUCELLOSIS
ASTHMA
TYPHOID
EXTREMELY HIGH INFANT MORTALITY RATE

22. BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT
THE PLAGUE
ANTHRAX

23. PORT CITIES NOW 30 MILES FROM WATER

24. NO FISH = NO FISHING = NO FISH PROCESSING PLANTS = NO JOBS

25. CAN THE ARAL SEA
BE SAVED?

26. CHERNOBYL
NUCLEAR DISASTER
APRIL 1986

27. CHERNOBYL
GHOST TOWN

28. CHERNOBYL
GENETIC MUTATIONS

29. CHERNOBYL EUROPEAN CONTAMINATION
NORTHERN SWEDEN AND NORWAY
SAMI
REINDEER

30. THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF A PEOPLE GROUP
GENOCIDE
THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF A PEOPLE GROUP
OTTOMAN TURKS VS
ARMENIANS
1915 – 1923
MUSLIMS VS CHRISTIANS

31. DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
MASSACRES
DEPORTATIONS
EXECUTIONS
KIDNAPPINGS
SLAVERY
LABOR CAMPS
STARVATION

32. ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
1 - 2
MILLION KILLED

33. 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

34. BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

35. CHECHNYA
ISLAMIC SEPARATISTS
TERRORISM
MOSCOW SUBWAY SUICIDE BOMBERS

36. BESLAN SCHOOL MASSACRE
>300
DEAD

37. MOSCOW MOVIE THEATER

38. MOSCOW AIRPORT

39. MOSCOW APARTMENTS

41. RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMPING/ABANDONMENT

43. POPULATION
AGING

44. EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH
RELIGION
EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH

45. SIBERIA NORTH SUBARCTIC, TUNDRA, TAIGA HARSH FROZEN SPARSELY POPULATED
EXILE
PRACTICALLY FREE!!!

46. SIBERIA
DIAMOND
MINE
WESTERN
MARSH OILFIELD

47. SIBERIA
LAKE BAIKAL

48. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD
EXTENDS ACROSS RUSSIA EAST TO WEST
GAVE RUSSIA A PATHWAY FOR MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND GOODS (TRAVEL AND TRADE)

49. COSMODROME
RUSSIA’S NASA