Users appreciated Shoigu's proposal to build large cities in Siberia
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu proposes to start building large cities in Siberia. It is necessary that there are several of them, approximately from three to five with a population of 300 thousand to a million inhabitants.
This proposal was made by the Russian head of the defense department at a meeting today with representatives of the scientific community of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
The minister believes that the new settlements should become economic and scientific centers of the regions to specialize in any industries.
- explained his idea to Shoigu.
The minister recalled that similar plans already existed at the end of the USSR, so there is nothing new in his proposal. True, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, it soon became not up to these plans.
Internet users have already responded to Shoigu's proposal. In particular, one of them believes that the cities that the minister spoke about already exist, the problem is only in the restoration of industry.
- he writes.
Others this news amused and at the same time led to a number of questions, because the population of Siberia is noticeably decreasing, and it is not clear for whom and why Shoigu wants to build cities. Someone even suggested building a city for oligarchs and stealing officials. Create it somewhere in Kolyma, put up a reliable guard and enclose it with barbed wire.
Another user believes that the thought process of a military man can be traced in Shoigu's idea. After all, everyone knows that NATO has already advanced into the Baltics, the alliance's troops are at ease in Ukraine and Georgia. And if missiles are deployed there, they will be able to hit Moscow and major cities of the European part of Russia in a matter of minutes. It is quite another matter if the capital and large industrial centers are located somewhere in the Siberian outback. In this case, they will be practically invulnerable.
- Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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