f the species.7
The foreign nation most affected by Soviet pollution is Canada, particularly in the Arctic; Butler, 1972, finds that the two socialist countries are acting in harmony.8 The Soviet Union and the United States have since 1972 had an Agreement on
Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection.9
The U.S.S.R. has ratified the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, the Rasmar Convention, and designated twelve wetlands within the Soviet Union.10
Water was a public problem even in "bourgeois" (imperial) Russia; already in 1912 Fleksor was writing, "[t]he decisive issue is not who--the landowner or the government--has the right to water. The decisive issue is rather that, irrespective of the individual owner, a number of rules must be established to regulate the procedure of water use and assure the systematic satisfaction of all the myriad needs for water in the interests of the community . . . ."11 After Lenin's Land Decree had nationalized water as well as la
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