1. Once upon a time, the Soviet Union was an encyclopedia of natural zones and climatic extremes: it was worth going to the west only for products. Everything else - from tundra to subtropics - was at the services of citizens, why the country survived the iron curtain; Today, this climatic self -sufficiency, which I remember, admired the " Evaciator ", was replaced by historical. Without any time, you can pass from the Turkmen early Middle Ages through Soviet Belarus to Georgian Neoliberalism.