When I was a kid I remember now and again I’d see a house or a restaurant with asbestos on the roof – of course no one uses the stuff anymore because it’s so cancerous. But apparently it all comes from a single city in Russia. The entire area is built around the industry, and it partially collapsed after everyone found out it’s so dangerous, and now it’s collapsed more due to the financial crisis, there’s no internal buisness or buisness from China.
Don’t know why this caught my eye really, maybe just because I think of asbestos as such a relic of the past. I had no idea anywhere even made it anymore.
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Thanks for the great article, Tess. The monogoroda in Russia are fascinating places – and I had no idea idea that all the asbestos came from a single one of those. Should be interesting to see what is left of them if the economy continues to slump.
The part about the vast Western conspiracy is fantastic, as well.
This concept of Western conspiracy theories seems to be very popular in Russia – I think I posted an article about it earlier in the year, but I can’t remember when.