Darvaza Gas Crater: The Soviet Gateway to Hell

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Source/Further reading:

BBC Reel: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08vxl...  

National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ne...  

Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnq7w...  

Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel...  

History of gas extraction in Turkmenistan: http://www.rpi-research.com/content/S...  

President doing donuts around the crater in 2019: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cult...  

Notes on post-Soviet Turkmenistan: https://carnegieendowment.org/2017/01...  

History of Turkmenistan: https://www.britannica.com/place/Turk...  

More on Turkmenistan’s history: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/turkmeni...  

Turkmenistan’s economic crisis: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/201...

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