Ain't slavery grand?
Yeah, I guess it is indeed possible to do just about anything when you have plenty of Gulag labor to carry out your bidding.
Not necessarily well, of course, as the Soviet’s whole “let’s drain the Aral see and irrigate the cotton fields” proved, to say nothing of Mao’s “make steel in your backyard” in the Great Leap Forward. /stupid commies.
It's been effectively employed in the past: