Some Russians rethink Alaska sale

Deng wrote:

In a few yars the United States will be weak and all a brave Russian has to do is to land a few rowboats and when the fatassed USAers see this they'll hightail it back over the hills to San Francisco and Washington D.C. to be with their Man.

uther pendragon wrote:

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I do not see illegal immigration as a positive either but immigration itself is. The two do tend to get thrown together as one around here.

Robespierre wrote:

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Take it easy. I was only joking about Alaska, OK?
Alaska rightly belongs to the States.
You are right about the neglect when it was owned by Russia. In fact, Tasrist governments didn't care much about Alaska; it was mostly managed by a Russian private company and used as a coastal trading post. And you are also right in saying that Russia didn't try to colonise it by sending large population, as they could have done, like in Siberia. In these days, the Tsars decided where you lived, and Siberia became populated by Tsarist policy. That wasn't the case with Alaska.

Stephany McDowell wrote:

Russians, Hear ye, hear ye. Take Alaska back by force. Alaska never should have become part of the U.S.