Second account to post this link: say what you will about the bots and — god forbid — someone saying something good about soviet union :-)

Destroying the Aral Sea was hardly "green". The list of environmental disasters caused by the USSR is pretty impressive, in a sad way.

Blaming Aral Sea disaster on USSR was/is mostly a PR stunt of post-Soviet Uzbekistan government. The largest part of the drying happened in 1990s and 2000s, because Uzbekistan was farming cotton and wheat in crazy amounts trying to offset massive imports in its new independent economy.

I think it’s hard to claim that things were sustainable and headed in a good direction before 1992, cotton farming notwithstanding.

>someone saying something good about soviet union

Has nothing to do with it. You simply lied. Would have called you out no matter the subject.

Lied about what? No one-time packaging and recycling of everything from paper to bottles? Thus being very green/eco by the modern retail standards.

Just google “макулатура” and “пункт приема бутылок”

Who was the largest? Heh - they try to justify it via GNP.