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Today, January 15, Egypt is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the construction of the greatest project of the twentieth century, the High Dam, which was built by the Egyptians with unrivaled Soviet support.
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The inauguration of the High Dam coincided with the birthday of the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The Egyptian media monitored the great role of the Soviets in building this dam, after Cairo rejected the unfair financing offers it received from the World Bank, the United States of America and Britain, and considered it a threat to its sovereignty.
The Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabea said that 50 years after the opening of the greatest dam projects in the world during the twentieth century, Egyptians are still celebrating this occasion, which has since become a national holiday for Aswan Governorate.
The newspaper sheds light on the symbol of Egyptian-Soviet cooperation, which is located in the High Dam in Aswan Governorate, which Abdel Nasser decided to build as a model for embodying the Egyptian-Russian relations that exceed 70 years.
The Egyptian water expert, Abbas Sharaqi, confirmed in statements to RT that the Soviet Union in 1958 stood by Egypt in implementing the High Dam, financially and technically, which was chosen as one of the ten best projects that used technology and benefited humanity during the twentieth century.
The Egyptian expert added, “Egyptian-Russian cooperation continued in the military field and in establishing many other factories and facilities, such as the aluminum factory in Nag Hammadi, the iron and steel factory in Helwan, and more recently the Dabaa nuclear reactor.”
He explained that the High Dam “protects Egypt from the repercussions of the Renaissance Dam in the coming years as it compensates Egypt with water that is lacking due to storage in Ethiopia.”
The Egyptian national security researcher, Ahmed Refaat, told RT: “There is nothing in the whole world that can be described as the largest monument that testifies to the history of a relationship between two countries more than what is represented by the High Dam.”
He pointed out that “the High Dam is not only a huge, big building, and not all this amount of work surrounding it diverting the course of the Nile and all this amount of workers who worked in it, but the High Dam is a large and lofty epic that witnesses and will witness relations between two great countries and will remain forever.”
For his part, an expert in water and agriculture, Nader Nour El-Din, explained that “this dam protected Egypt from long droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, as the Nile River flood cycle always goes through seven fat years for heavy flood, followed by seven lean years for weak floods, then six years on average.”
He explained that “the last droughts were from 1981 to 1988, which witnessed a severe drought of the river that almost halted the work of the High Dam turbines and raised the state of emergency in Egypt to rationalize water use, had it not been for the arrival of a heavy flood in 1988, ending seven years of severe drought in which the dam protected Egypt.” This was also repeated during the new millennium, in long lean years that ended in 2017, during which the High Dam protected the Egyptian people from the ravages of drought.
Source: RT
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