HITLER OF COURSE HAD THE IDEA THAT IN ORDER TO COUNTERACT THE SIX HUNDRED POUND MEGAGORILLA OF AMERICAN ECONOMY AND MANUFACTURING, EUROPE COULD JUST SEND ITS YOUNG PEOPLE TO SIBERIA AND BUILD A FUCKTON OF FARMS AND FACTORIES
THIS WAS STILL IN THE EARLY YEARS OF RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS SO PEOPLE HAD TONS OF UNFOUNDED OPTIMISM ABOUT HOW SIBERIA COULD BE EXPLOITED
THEN AFTER THE WAR KHRUSCHEV BASICALLY HAD THAT EXACT IDEA AS STATE POLICY AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THERES TONS AND TONS OF PRACTICAL PROBLEMS THAT GET IN THE WAY OF THAT