In the late 1960s, the central planners in the Soviet Union decided that they needed to do something to boost their winter food supplies.
So they decided to build a massive greenhouse complex where they could grow year-round food.
You’d think they would have picked a better location, perhaps in one of the Soviet Union’s warmer, sunnier spots like Sochi or Batumi.
But instead they chose to locate their greenhouse in the bitterly cold climate of Lithuania.
At the same time, these central planners realized that their giant greenhouse would require an army of workers.
So they built an entire village next to the greenhouse project, complete with houses and apartment buildings. Typical of soulless Soviet architecture, the apartment buildings all looked like concrete boxes devoid of any life or happiness. Continue reading “Here’s a place where supply chain problems don’t exist”
