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Very interesting for multiple reasons, including: treatises on the negative effects of the dissolution of the USSR tend to forget Tajikistan; smart people have claimed that world war 3 is going to be fought over water.
- What Tajikistan does have in abundance is water. Its mountains hold some of the world’s largest glaciers, and the hydropower potential of the country, about the size of Iowa, ranks among the largest in the world. So President Emomali Rahmon has staked the future of his country on building the world’s tallest dam, here in Rogun. Electricity from the hydropower plant would end the country’s chronic power shortages, while the surplus would create a lucrative export to power-hungry Pakistan, India, and China. President Rahmon has repeatedly said that the dam is of “life or death importance” to Tajikistan.
Also, the tallest mountain in Tajikistan used to be called Mount Communism.