Synopsis
From the Aral Sea, evidence of a catastrophe that rivals Chernobyl. The planning decisions of the Brezhnev years have left a great many facing disease, deformity and death. As the sea dries up, the ecology of the region disintegrates.
BBC One
S37E31: Gorbachev: Reaping the Whirlwind - The Poisoned Land
Aired 30 Oct 1989 at 7:30pm (UTC)