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THANKS TO THE PLANT FOR CLEAN WATER!

At the Radyansk Union, the commissioning of new or reconstructed facilities without major clean-up spores was blocked (written on the top text).

Soviet ecology presents us with an extraordinary set of historical ironies. On the one hand, the USSR in the 1930s and ’40s violently purged many of its leading ecological thinkers and seriously degraded its environment in the quest for rapid industrial expansion. The end result has often been described as a kind of “ecocide,” symbolized by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the assault on Lake Baikal, and the drying up of the Aral Sea, as well as extremely high levels of air and water pollution. On the other hand, the Soviet Union developed some of the world’s most dialectical contributions to ecology, revolutionizing science in fields such as climatology, while also introducing pioneering forms of conservation. Aside from its famous zapovedniki, or nature reserves for scientific research, it sought to preserve and even to expand its forests. As environmental historian Stephen Brain observes, it established “levels of [forest] protection unparalleled anywhere in the world.” Beginning in the 1960s the Soviet Union increasingly instituted environmental reforms, and in the 1980s was the site of what has been called an “ecological revolution.”

Printed in 1983

Size: 39x27 cm

Material: paper

Publisher: Publishing house of political literature of Ukraine

Printing technique: Offset

Print run: only 28000 copies

Artist: P. G. Savchenko

Language: Ukrainian

Made in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

This is guaranteed 100% original soviet period item manufactured in the USSR.

This is not a recent issue,replica or tourist souvenir.