Reply #24: Their economy went down the tubes, a really large [View All]

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percent reduction in output (25%? I could Google it.)

And as it comes back it's been in different "industries", and some of the old plants have just fallen to pieces. As Westerners moved in, the old technology was so pathetic that they just built new plants. But still the economy's really shrunk.

Then there's been the retreat from the Arctic north, where the USSR was building communities in some sort of heroic effort to reclaim the frozen tundra for human use--a lot of smaller communities that just sucked up coal for heat.

Russia's going to rake in a pretty penny. And if Germany/France etc. go in and renovate some of Russia's old plants to reduce carbon output even more ....