• Shrike502
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    This one of the Great Construction Projects of Communism. Construction employed: 12 thousand people, 1100 autocars, 30 excavators, 75 caterpillar and gantry cranes, 100 bulldozers, 14 locomotives, 7 dredges. That was in 1950’s.

    Now the mayor of Novaya Kahovka says the dam is irreparable. In 2020’s. Guess that’s the decommunisation we’ve heard about

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      Water from Kakhovka Reservoir supplies water for cooling the 5.7 GW Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and to irrigate areas of southern Ukraine and northern Crimea via the North Crimean Canal and Dnieper–Kryvyi Rih Canal.[7]

      Russia famously loves cutting off their own water supplies/important infrastructure. Really hope the intakes for that nuclear plant are deep