Fascinating. The world is awakening to a new dawn...........I hope the revelations come quivckly enough to save the planet. Seems Freddy is doing a fair amount of "heavy lifting" as well. Gregg
I grew up during the Cold War, this area was called Soviet Central Asia, part of the old 19th century Russian Empire and off limits. We've just got back from two weeks in Uzbekistan and it was a revelation, clean modern cities mingled with UNESCO world heritage sites in Bukhara Samarqand and Tashkent. The latter was flattened by an earthquake in the '60's and rebuilt by teams from all over the USSR with wide tree lined avenues. The flip side was that Moscow needed cotton, which needs irrigation. The disaster of tapping rivers led to the Aral sea disaster. But it is an area of stark, almost Martian beauty well worth the long trek in a 4 × 4. Rather than looking to the west or east, it seemed that they are finding their own way, and good luck to them having spent two centuries as pawns in the "Great Game"
Fascinating. The world is awakening to a new dawn...........I hope the revelations come quivckly enough to save the planet. Seems Freddy is doing a fair amount of "heavy lifting" as well. Gregg
I grew up during the Cold War, this area was called Soviet Central Asia, part of the old 19th century Russian Empire and off limits. We've just got back from two weeks in Uzbekistan and it was a revelation, clean modern cities mingled with UNESCO world heritage sites in Bukhara Samarqand and Tashkent. The latter was flattened by an earthquake in the '60's and rebuilt by teams from all over the USSR with wide tree lined avenues. The flip side was that Moscow needed cotton, which needs irrigation. The disaster of tapping rivers led to the Aral sea disaster. But it is an area of stark, almost Martian beauty well worth the long trek in a 4 × 4. Rather than looking to the west or east, it seemed that they are finding their own way, and good luck to them having spent two centuries as pawns in the "Great Game"