Posted on 11/16/2010 1:34:14 PM PST by kronos77
Under the plans, which were leaked to the daily Vedomosti newspaper, the majority of Russia's 141 million-strong population would be concentrated in just twenty urban centres rather than sparsely spread out over one fifth of the earth's surface as is now the case.
At the moment, ninety per cent of Russia's towns are relatively small with a population of 100,000 people or less, many of them in remote locations. The leaked plan said such places had "no future" and were not worth developing.
Instead, it proposed relocating people to twenty giant agglomerations where Russia's main natural resources such as oil and gas were located.
Unlike in Stalin's day, when people were forced to move at gunpoint on the often spurious grounds that they were 'enemies of the people' or Nazi collaborators, relocating would be optional and encouraged on economic grounds alone.
Much of rural Russia is dying as young people move to towns and cities anyway and entire Soviet-era settlements which were built around just one or two factories are no longer economically viable.
"There is no need to fight against the current and we need to develop big cities and urban centres," the plan said according to the newspaper.
Saddled by an obsession for central planning, the Soviets decreed that many towns and settlements be built in areas where the climate was too harsh and where the expense of providing basic utilities was unjustifiably expensive.
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I didnt know russia had a nature conservancy
Is this not in direct compliance with the UNs Agenda 21 and the subsidiary Wildlands project, also mirrored in the US under the general category of “sustainable” development??
The first environmentalist I ever met told me it was his goal to put humans in city cages and let the plants and animals be free.
Who is going to feed all those relocated Russian peasants?
This massive relocation sounds like a strategy to survive global cooling or another coming disaster. It also sounds a bit like HR 645
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-645
Emigrate them to Africa for settlement and resource extraction like the Red Chinese are supposedly doing
On Planet Lurker it would be perfectly legal to shoot such a person right between the eyes as soon as those words left his or her lips.
did he not understand where food comes from?
More room for all the muzzies...
Is this not in direct compliance with the UNs Agenda 21 and the subsidiary Wildlands project, also mirrored in the US under the general category of “sustainable” development??
Yes it is. “Unlike under the nazi’s who did it by gunpoint”
This goverment will simply stop allowing essentials into the areas.
Not using the stick; but removing the carrot
Why doesn’t he put himself in a cage?
relocating would be optional and encouraged on economic grounds alone.
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In other words, people will be allowed to move to where the jobs are (if they wish) or stay put. This sounds a lot like...personal freedom.
Isn’t that the way it is supposed to be?
Food comes from the store.
‘relocating would be optional and encouraged on economic grounds alone.”
No it means if you want to eat and have a job then you had better move.
This will make them very easy to defeat militarily with today’s technology. All it will take is 20 intercontinental missiles shot simultaneously. I cannot believe Putin is really this stupid. It is almost like he is taking the burg approach of Alfred the Great to protect himself from the Vikings. Someone should tell him that we nolonger fight with swords, shields, and siege engines.
Does this mean the Khans get Siberia back?
It will be optional, just like the TSA’s strip-search/feel-up is optional.
Gives plenty of room for the Chinese to move in. And take the resources now underneath Russia.
The idea goes 3-4 years back. It is about building several cities on far-east with 1-5 million citizens thus re-colonizing far-east.
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