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"In 1959, under General-Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's
self-sufficiency plan," Schaar wrote, "the Russians diverted
the courses of the Amu Syr and Amu Darya rivers, the Aral Sea's two
main feeders, to irrigate newly planted cotton fields in Uzbekistan. Troops were brought into Afghanistan from two points: from
Termez--across the Amu Darya, the Salang Pass, Kabul, Jalalabad; and
from Kushka--Herat, Shindahar, Kandahar. To the north, along Afghanistan's Amu Darya River, destruction
of protective vegetation has exacerbated the effects of drought and
allowed the formation of a sand dune belt that is some 300 kilometers
long and 30 kilometers wide. |
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