https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/a1eb05c1-5ba0-4457-af6c-74888d725dcd In 1979, the Soviet Union was the world's leading producer of oil, pumping 11.5 million barrels of oil each day. At the end of our last video on this, the Soviet Union finished the 1960s as the second biggest oil producing nation in the world. Even so, the country's most plentiful bounties of oil and natural gas were still yet to come, hiding beneath Siberia's frozen swamps and lakes. In this video, we look at how the Soviet Union became an energy superpower and how that contributed to the country's eventual dissolution. Links: The Asianometry Newsletter: https://asianometry.com, Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry, The Podcast: https://anchor.fm/asianometry, Twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:07:09 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.loping.net https://tube.loping.net/lazy-static/avatars/8a56e488-2120-4649-a417-badf5893657b.png https://tube.loping.net/videos/watch/a1eb05c1-5ba0-4457-af6c-74888d725dcd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.loping.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.