Soviet Union’s war on whales

Because Kremlin plan included quota of dead whales.

“The Soviet whalers, Berzin wrote, had been sent forth to kill whales for little reason other than to say they had killed them. They were motivated by an obligation to satisfy obscure line items in the five-year plans that drove the Soviet economy, which had been set with little regard for the Soviet Union’s actual demand for whale products. 'Whalers knew that no matter what, the plan must be met!' Berzin wrote. The Sovetskaya Rossiya seemed to contain in microcosm everything Berzin believed to be wrong about the Soviet system: its irrationality, its brutality, its inclination toward crime.”

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/one-of-the-greatest-environmental-crimes-of-the-20th-century.html

Link at maggiesfarm.

Always remember: Russia is a criminal enterprise. Russia has always been ruled by criminals. Communist leaders were criminals, not just in the sense of denying basic human rights, but true criminals, whose goal was self-enrichment and pleasing their criminal bosses. Czarist Russia was run by criminals, whose demands for more and more riches led to conquest and enslavement of millions of non-Russians.