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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video in on the Uzbek Cotton Scandal, the corruption affair that shook the USSR in the 1980s. Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Novocherkassk Massacre 1962: https://youtu.be/b06Gfm2QVxY Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe: https://youtu.be/QD6IWHFkYpc How the Soviets Won the Early Space Race: https://youtu.be/skyrA0l9erI Soviet Television and Radio: https://youtu.be/YcBKRMJI7Ck Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/eMBh5zbN3K4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #USSR #Corruption #Cotton #Scandal #uzbekistan #uzbek Sources: Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, “Legitimation Through Self-Victimization: The Uzbek Cotton Affair and its Repression Narrative,” Cahiers du Monde Russe, Vol.58, No.4 (2017) Gregory Gleason, “Fealty and Loyalty: Informal Authority Structures in Soviet Asia,” Soviet Studies, Vol.43, No.4 (1991) Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, “Sharaf Rashidov and the international dimensions of Soviet Uzbekistan,” Central Asian Survey, Vol.39, No.2 (2020) William A. Clark, “Crime and Punishment in Soviet Officialdom, 1965-90,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.45, No.2 (1993) Derek Edward Peterson, “When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness,” Ohio State University, Thesis (2013) Neil Melvin, Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road (Harwood Academic, 2000) Lindt, Margarita, “How cotton led to the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Russia Beyond (2017), https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2017/08/02/how-cotton-led-to-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union_815454 https://mytashkent.uz/2008/09/23/hlopkovoe-delo-v-uzbekistane/ NASA, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/AralSea